Traveller Quotes

• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

  Cesare Pavese

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Travel

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Dream, Rest In Peace

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

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• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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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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• Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, Adventure, Times Are Changing

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Country, Travel

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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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• I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Travel, Adventure, Moon

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2014). “She: A Celebration of Greatness in Every Woman”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Your true traveller 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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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, Travel, Perfect

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

  Agnes Repplier

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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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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• No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

  Lin Yutang

  Beautiful, Travel, Home

  Lin Yutang (1940). “With Love and Irony”

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

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Travel, Adventure

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

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• Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

  Tennessee Williams

  Inspirational, Courage, Travel

  Camino Real block 8 (1953)

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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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• Do not follow where the path may lead.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Graduation, Travel, Adventure

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

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

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