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There’s more to traveling than just packing your bags, getting on a plane, and going somewhere. With all its challenges, traveling means dealing with the unexpected. It’s brutal in its own way, because it forces you to trust complete strangers and lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends, especially if you’re traveling solo. It’s about holding on tight to the things that make you who you are while giving yourself permission to be a little different, too.

As a writer, I’ve always been fascinated by how much the act of travel can change a person. Whether it’s simply going from one place to another or something more profound and life-changing — such as moving to another country — travel has always seemed to me like an adventure that can change the way you see the world and your place in it.

Of course, some people never get around to traveling. Maybe they’re happy with their lives where they are, or perhaps they don’t have the time or money to make it happen. But for those who get out there and see new places, cultures, and people, travel can have a huge impact on their lives. It’s like being introduced to an entirely new existence. And it doesn’t even matter which kind of journey you’re looking for because the world seems built to please the eyes and heart of every traveling soul. And once you’ve experienced that, it’s hard not to want more of it! You meet so many interesting people along the way and find yourself becoming more comfortable with yourself as well. And then, one day, out of nowhere, you get hit by that epiphany of understanding that your world is so microscopic compared to what’s out there.

These last three years with the pandemic have been rough for travelers, and some people still can’t plan a trip and get around freely wherever they want. What about reading some of the best travel quotes to fuel your wanderlust while waiting for some better times? This collection of quotes about travel will help you get some travel inspiration for your next adventure. They’re all words of wisdom from some savvy women and men who have voyaged far and wide. Don’t forget to upvote your favorite ones!

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Ernest Hemingway quote on traveling with someone "Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

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“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

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“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paul Coelho

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“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Anderson

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Chinese proverb on doing something anyway “Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Chinese Proverb

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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

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“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

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“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Muhammad

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“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown

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Jamie Lyn Beatty quote on adventures filling your soul “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

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“I have found out that there ain't the no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ― Mark Twain, "Tom Sawyer Abroad"

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“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan

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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

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“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

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Brenna Smith quote on finding yourself during adventure “Travel – the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” – Brenna Smith

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“Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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Hell yeah it does. There are SO many fascinating people and places in our world and I've barely been out of the US/UK.

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#17

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

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#18

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

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Katie Thurmes quote on capturing moments “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.” – Katie Thurmes

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#21

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer

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#22

“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.” – Tim Cahill

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#23

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

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#24

“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

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Paul Theroux quote on difference between tourists and travellers “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

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#26

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine of Hippo

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#27

“It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

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#28

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you, it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

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#29

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

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Pat Conroy quote on journeys “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

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#31

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

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#32

“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

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#33

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger

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#34

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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Ibn Battuta quote on travelling and storytelling “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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#36

“I wish I had never gone traveling.” – Said no one ever.

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#37

“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” – Penelope Riley

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#38

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” ― Neil Gaiman, "The Graveyard Book"

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#39

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything"

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Ralph Waldo Emerson quote on following the path “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#41

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

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#42

“There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.” – Jo Walton

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#43

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

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#44

“Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.” – Unknown

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#45

Travel quote on travelling makes you richer “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

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#46

"Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#47

“I need a six month vacation, twice a year.” – Anonymous

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#48

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia” – Charles M. Schulz

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#49

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Lisa St. Aubin de Teran quote on flirting and travelling “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

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#51

“Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?” – Zig Ziglar

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#52

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

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#53

”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi

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#54

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

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Freya Stark quote on waking up in a strange town “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark

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#56

“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” – Henry David Thoreau

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#57

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

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#58

“It is not down on any map, true places never are” – Herman Melville

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“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity, and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

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Robert Louis Stevenson quote on foreign lands “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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#61

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

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#62

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

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#63

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

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#64

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

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Marcel Proust quote on voyage discoveries "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

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“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Anonymous

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#67

“Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain

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#68

“There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” – Theo Cowa

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#69

“It’s better to travel well than to arrive.” – Buddha

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Marcel Proust quote on seeing the world “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” – Alexander Sattler

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“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – Anonymous

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“Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.” – Anonymous

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#73

“Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

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#74

“We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymus

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Travel quote on making memories “I want to make memories all over the world.” – Anonymus

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“Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Anonymus

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“This heart of mine was made to travel this world.” – Anonymus

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“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

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"It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it." – Jo Andrews

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Hilaire Belloc quote on travelling and distractions “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

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#81

“Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman

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#82

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” – Ralph Crawshaw

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#83

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” - Martin Buber.

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“Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World.” – Anonymus

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Robert Louis Stevenson quote on travelling “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

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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

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“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” – Henry David Thoreau

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 Walt Whitman quote on positivity “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

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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

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“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.” ― Brian Selznick, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret"

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#92

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi Jalalud-Din

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David Mitchell quote on finding yourself “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell, "Cloud Atlas"

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“I read, I travel, I become.” ― Derek Walcott

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“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” ― Ma Jian, "Red Dust: A Path Through China"

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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, "On the Road"

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“Take only memories, leave only footprints .” – Chief Seattle

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#98

“People don’t take trips — trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

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 Albert Einstein quote on loving to travel “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

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#101

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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Paul Theroux quote on changes “You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back.” – Paul Theroux

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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

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“Climb mountains, not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.” – David McCullough Jr.

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“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

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Rudyard Kipling quote on understanding the foreign country “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

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“Your true traveler 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

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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.” – G.K. Chesterton

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“Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.” – Mark Twain

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Babs Hoffman quote on journey and worries “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

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#113

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

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#114

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

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“You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” – John Lennon

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#116

“Where to next?” – Anonymus

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Johnathan Winters quote on taking chances “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” – Johnathan Winters

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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, "A Hat Full of Sky"

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#119

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Left Hand of Darkness"

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“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” ― Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin, "The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974"

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G.K. Chesterton quote on tourists and travellers “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“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"

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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

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“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”― Roman Payne, "The Wanderess"

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#127

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

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Travel quote on being lost “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown

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#129

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

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#130

“I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords.” – Unknown

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“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.” – Unknown

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“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

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Henry David Thoreau quote on understanding ourself “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

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“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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#135

"The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

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#136

“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

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“I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” ― Carl Sandburg

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Travel quote on beautiful places "Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost." – Unknown

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#139

"Paris is always a good idea." – Audrey Hepburn

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“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

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“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, "On the Road"

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Roman Payne quote on wandering “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” ― Roman Payne, "Rooftop Soliloquy"

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“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 in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” ― Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet"

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“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"

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“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.” ― Roman Payne, "Cities & Countries"

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#146

“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

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“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

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Helen Keller quote on adventure “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

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“I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” – Bob Hope

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