"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
— Aldous Huxley, Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
— Amelia Earhart
"I love to travel, but hate to arrive."
— Albert Einstein, BookName
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe."
— Anatole France, Penguin Island
"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you."
— Anthony Bourdain, No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
"There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave."
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: In search for The Great Perhaps
"People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the people they ignore at home."
— Dagobert D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought: From My Writings and From My Evenings
"The journey is the reward."
— Chinese proverb
"Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before."
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively..."
— Eleanor Roosevelt, Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live."
— Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
"I dislike feeling at home when I’m abroad."
— George Bernard Shaw
"It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us."
— Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones, Game of Thrones - Seasons 1-7
"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
— Freya Stark, Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did."
— H. Jackson Brown, Life’s Little Instruction Book
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
— Hilaire Belloc
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
— Henry David Thoreau, Henry David Thoreau: A Life
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
— Helen Keller, The Open Door - A Sense of Life
"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."
— Jaime Lyn Beatty
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life."
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller."
— Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah
"Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life."
— Ian Fleming, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car
"Peculiar travel plans are dancing lessons from God."
— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
"Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate."
— J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
"Not all those who wander are lost."
— J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us."
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
— John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic
"Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them..."
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place."
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
— Martin Buber, BookName
"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures."
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost."
— Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
"Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness."
— Ray Bradbury
"If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal."
— Paulo Coelho
"Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret."
— Oscar Wilde
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
"Travel brings power and love back into your life."
— Rumi Jalalud-Din, The Essential Rumi
"Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive."
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."
— Jawaharlal Nehru, BookName
"Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else."
— Tennesse Williams, Camino Real
"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."
— Susan Sontag
"Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind."
"Travel is never a matter of money but of courage."
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
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