Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ”

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. ”

He who does not travel does not know the value of men. ”

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ”

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.”

Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.”

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ”

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places. ”

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ”

Is anything sadder than a train/That leaves when it's supposed to/That has only one voice/Only one route?”

The journey, not the arrival, matters. ”

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes stranger of people who should be friends. ”

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. ”

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ”

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ”

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

He who would travel happily must travel light.”

The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. ”

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ”

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.”

Travel is glamourous only in retrospect.”

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person. ”

We must travel in the direction of our fear. ”

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ”

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. ”

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ”

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ”

We start going downhill when we stop taking risks.”

Too often… I would hear men boast only of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ”

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.”

…nobody can discover the world for anybody else. It is only after we have discovered it for ourselves that it becomes common ground, and a common bond, and we cease to be alone. ”

Don't tell me how educated you are; tell me how much you have traveled.”

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ”

Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by.”

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

… before the traveler sees the ocean, he feels a stirring in his blood. ”

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere. ”

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. ”

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. ”

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”