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"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only
who is foreign."
- Robert
Louis Stevenson
"He
who would travel happily must travel light."
-
St.Exupery
"The
first condition of understanding a foreign country is
to smell it."
-
Rudyard Kipling
"To
travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive and
the true success is to labor."
-Robert
Louis Stevenson
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"To
travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
-Aldous
Huxley
"Travel is fatal
to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark
Twain
"When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere,
you are everywhere." - Rumi
"All that is gold
does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."
- J.
R. R. Tolkien
"He gave the impression
that very many cities had rubbed him smooth."
- Graham
Greene
"You will, if
you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the
stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit
in which the gods may offer it."
-
Freya
Stark
"To awaken alone
in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the
world."
- Freya
Stark (1893-1993)
"The world is a book
and those who do not travel read only a page."
- St.
Augustine
"Travel can
be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." -
Lawrence
Durrell
"Traveling is
almost like talking with those of other centuries." -
René
Descartes
"Trust in Allah,
but tie your camel." - Old Muslim Proverb
"It is not down in
any map; true places never are." - Herman
Melville
"What am I doing
here?" - Rimbaud
writing home from Ethiopia
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he
comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
- Lin
Yutang
"A guest never
forgets the host who had treated him kindly." -
Homer
"A journey of a thousand
miles begins with a cash advance." - Anonymous
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"Education
is that which remains when one has forgotten everything
learned in school. "
- Albert
Einstein
"No matter
where you go, there you are."
-
Buckaroo Banzi
"Reality is
hopelessly inaccurate…"
- Douglas
Adams
"The use of
traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead
of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
- Samuel
Johnson
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"People
don't take trips . . . trips take people."
- John
Steinbeck
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"While armchair
travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream
of staying put."
- Anne
Tyler
"Human beings
were invented by water as a means of transporting itself
from one place to another."
- Tom
Robbins
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"Travel
makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the
world."
-
Gustave
Flaubert
"Perhaps travel
cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples
cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that
if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
- Maya
Angelou
"People travel to
wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of
the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass
of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they
pass by themselves without wondering."
- St.
Augustine
"Travel teaches
toleration." - Benjamin
Disraeli
"One of the
great things about travel is that you find out how many good,
kind people there are." - Edith
Wharton
"Sometimes
it's a little better to travel than to arrive." -
Robert
M. Pirsig
"My
own journey started long before I left, and was over before
I returned."
- John
Steinbeck
"I
can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike
wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost
everything."
-
Bill
Bryson
"Every
perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels."
- Nikos
Kazantzakis
"Half the fun
of travel is the esthetic of lostness." - Ray
Bradbury
"Her
mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving
sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations
of a three-year-old."
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"I
travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will
still carry his body around because of its sentimental value."
- Christopher
Fry
"There
is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one."
- Thomas
Wolfe
"Ay,
now am I in Arden; the more fool I: when I was at home, I was
in a better place: but travellers must be content."
- William
Shakespeare
"...
then the world's mine oyster." - William
Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Obstacles cannot
crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is
fixed to a star does not change his mind."
- Leonardo
da Vinci
"Do not go where
the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave
a trail." - Ralph
Waldo Emerson
"Though
we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry
it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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"They
change their climate, not their soul, who rush across
the sea." - Horace
"O public
road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love
you, you express me better than I can express myself."
- Walt
Whitman
"From
this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary
lines." - Walt
Whitman
NOT
I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must
travel it for yourself.
- Walt Whitman
"A
man travels the world over in search of what he needs,
and returns home to find it."
- George
Moore
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Most travel is best
of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has
more to do with losing your luggage. - Regina
Nadelson
"Thanks
to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel
from coast to coast without seeing anything." -
Charles
Kuralt
"You
can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube."
- Japanese saying
"Three
o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want
to do. "
- Jean-Paul
Sartre
"In
matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,
stand like a rock." - Thomas
Jefferson
"You
got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because
you might not get there. " - Yogi
Berra
"The
whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it
is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."
- G.
K. Chesterton
"I
love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Heman
Melville
"Through travel
I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel
that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of
it." - Eudora
Welty
"While we are postponing,
life speeds by." - Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
"A
good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to,
and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from."
- Lin Yutang
"Cantabit vacuus
coram latrone viator. - The traveller with empty pockets will
sing in the thief 's face." - Juvenal,
Satires
"Traveling,
you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling
all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a
shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
-Italo
Calvino
"Shed
of everything else,
I still have some lice
I picked up on the road -
Crawling on my summer robes."
-
Matsuo
Basho
"The
Narrow Road to the Deep North
"Simplicity
is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."
-Charles Dudley Warner
"Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein
"I
knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
- Yogi
Berra
"In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best
teacher." - Dalai
Lama
"You must be the
change you wish to see in the world. "
- Mahatma
Ghandi
Mahatma
Ghandi
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