Travel Quotes - Page 4

• Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Nature, Journey, Men

  "How to Explore Like a Real Victorian Adventurer". www.believermag.com. October 2011.

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• 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, Life Changing, Eye

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

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• Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Women, Cheer Up

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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

  Edward Dahlberg

  Suicide, Journey, Realizing

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

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• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Adventure, Gambling

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• Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Country, Memories, Knowing

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Hurt, Moving

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

  Harun Yahya

  Inspirational, Success, Bird

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Positivity

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Travelling expands the mind rarely.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Journey, Mind

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “What the Moon Saw and Other Tales”, p.123, Library of Alexandria

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• Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

  Aristophanes

  Adventure, Journey, Achieve

  Aristophanes (2004). “The Frogs (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.

  Michael Palin

  Art, Perfect, I Love Food

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Adventure, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  1841 Essays: First Series,'Art'.

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• The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Reality, Imagination, Use

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.104

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• The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

  Thomas Fuller

  Wise, Men, Tourism

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Carpe Diem, Past, Journey

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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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• The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Funny, Hopeful

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• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspirational, Funny, Silly

  Observer, October 07, 1979.

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• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

  John Hope Franklin

  Journey, African American, Depth

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