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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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  My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Home, Heaven

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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• I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspirational, Thinking, Light

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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are planning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.

  Robert Benchley

  Self, Shells, Way

  Robert Benchley (1928). “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Or, David Cooperfield”

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• Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

  Wendell Berry

  Inspirational, Courage, Doe

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  We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Jukebox, Road Trip, Homesick

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

  Leo Durocher

  Mother, Running, Nice

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• Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage.

  Theophile Gautier

  Horse, Moon, Light

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• Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Inspirational, Adventure, Serious

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• I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.

  Rosalia de Castro

  Adventure, Hiking, Backpacking

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• The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Adventure, Memorable, Carpe Diem

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.85, Vintage

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• Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Adventure, Heart

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.301, The Mountaineers Books

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• Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Beautiful, Smart, Rain

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• Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

  Henry Adams

  Taste, Inches, Carrie

  'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 12

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• The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.

  George Ade

  Journey, Three, Unpacking

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”

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• I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

  Laurel Clark

  Country, People, Different

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

  Ivanka Trump

  Journey, Design, Inspire

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• Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.

  Rick Steves

  Inspirational, Funny, Silly

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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

  Adventure, Dreamer, Homesick

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• A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

  Tim Cahill

  Inspirational, Journey, Miles

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• To travel is to live.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Adventure

  Beth Wagner Brust, Hans Christian Andersen (1994). “The Amazing Paper Cuttings of Hans Christian Andersen”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.

  Alex Garland

  Heart, Broken, England

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin

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• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Life, Contentment, Haunting

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