Inspiring Travel Quotes - Page 9

• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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• Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

  Judith Thurman

  Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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• When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Suicide, Travel, Journey

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point A to point B. It had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles with no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rocks, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets. The experience was powerful and fundamental. It seemed to me that it had always felt like this to be a human in the wild, and as long as the wild existed it would always feel this way.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Powerful, Philosophy, Sunset

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.

  Wally Byam

  Home, Talking, People

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• What am I doing here?

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Travel, Journey

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• When you're traveling, ask the traveler for advice / not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.

  Rumi

  Travel, Advice, Asks

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• I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.

  John Steinbeck

  Moving, Eye, Desire

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.11, Penguin

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• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

  Che Guevara

  Tired, Lakes, Understanding

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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