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  Travel Quotes - A good traveller knows how to travel with the mind   “The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire” ― Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone   “A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes   “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ” ― Lin Yutang   “The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..” ― Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road   “But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.” ― Gwyn Thomas   “Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, int...

  Travel Quotes - Traveling is a fool's paradise   “Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.” ― Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever   “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler” ― Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby   “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ― Paul Theroux   “This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, an...

  Travel Quotes - My dream is to walk around the world   “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   “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, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook   “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections   “No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch o...

  Travel Quotes - Travel brings wisdom only to the wise   “Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan   “to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love   “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy   “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas   “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.” ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps   “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is i...

  Travel Quotes - In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own   “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon   I read; I travel; I become “I read; I travel; I become” ― Derek Walcott   “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays   “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   “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 makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ― Gustave Flaubert   “In books I have trav...

  Travel Quotes - Travel far enough, you meet yourself   “Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring   “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine   “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, A Hat Full of Sky   “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu   “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life   “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai   “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. B...