Inspiring Travel Quotes - Page 2

• Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

  Terry Pratchett

  Change, Travel, Life Changing

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.68, Random House

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Opposites, People, Firsts

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2001.

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• If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Travel, Sleep, Two

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.56, A&C Black

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• Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.320, Random House

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• Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Travel, Journey

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Travel, Adventure

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• 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.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

  Lawrence Block

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

  Danny Kaye

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

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  Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Take only memories, leave only footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Travel, Memories

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

  Clifton Fadiman

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• 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.

  Bill Bryson

  Life, Summer, Travel

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• Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

  Pat Conroy

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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• He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Travel, Stars

  "On the Road".

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• Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

  Michael Palin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  "Good Advice". Book by William Safire and Leonard Safir, 1982.

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• Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

  Martin Buber

  Inspirational, Travel, Freedom

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Life, Travel, Laughter

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.8, Bantam

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• 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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Travel, Adventure

  "Does Travel Really Matter Anyway?" by Kim Mance, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 11, 2008.

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