Get ready to be motivated and inspired to travel more! These collective travel quotes have a way of transporting the mind into a place of clarity, speaking to that place of the soul where things are more real, more truer, where you gain insight into who you are and your place in the world…
and a few of them are extremely Pinnable 😉
So here you go:
100+ BEST Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Adventurer Soul
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“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” -Bill Bryson
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“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -Samuel Johnson
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“People don’t take trips. Trips take people.” -Josh Steinbeck
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“Every hundred feet the world changes.” -Roberto Bolano
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” -Jack Kerouac
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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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“He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller
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“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” -Andrew Zimmern
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“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” -Caskie Stinnett
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“A wise man travels to discover himself.” -James Russell Lowell
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“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” -Marty Rubin
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“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” -Herman Melville
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” -Mark Twain
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“A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.” -Sa’di
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“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” -Anatole France
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“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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“The journey not the arrival matters.” -T.S. Eliot
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“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” -G.K. Chesterton
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“Remember happiness is a way of travel not a destination.” -Roy Goodman
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Saint Augustine
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“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” -Pico Iyer
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“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” -Mohammed
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“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” -Clifton Fadiman
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“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” -Buddha
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“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” -Danny Kaye
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“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
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“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” -Edith Wharton
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“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” -Susan Sontag
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“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 Terán
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“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” -Miriam Beard
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“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” -Euripides
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“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” -David Mitchell
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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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“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” -Ella Maillart
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“Adventure is worthwhile.” -Aristotle
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“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” -Unknown
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“To travel is to live.” -Hans Christian Andersen
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“A vacation is having nothing to do & all day to do it in.” -Robert Orben
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” -Andre Gide
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“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” -Dalai Lama
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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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“I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” -Steve McQueen
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“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” -Fitzhugh Mullan
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“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it’s their country and they got a right to run it like they want to.” -Will Rogers
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“Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Travel is like love, 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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“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” -Seneca
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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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“Travel teaches toleration.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” -Lewis Carroll
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” -Lao Tzu
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“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” -Diane Arbus
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“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” -Samuel Johnson
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“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” -Albert Einstein
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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
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -Aldous Huxley
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“The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.” -Jim Harrison
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“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us” -Anonymous
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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
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“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” -Pat Conroy
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“I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I couldn’t be.” -John Cheever
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“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” -Freya Stark
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“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Theroux
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“Travel is to spread your life all over the world.” -Taxi Driver Wisdom
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“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” -Mark Twain
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“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.” -Tim Cahill
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“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” -Moorish proverb
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“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters if there are none, travel alone.” -The Dhammapada
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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” -Robert Louis Stephenson
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“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” -Shirley MacLaine
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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
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“The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. Fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life.” -Unknown
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
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“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” -Margaret Lee Runbeck
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“You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” -Daranna Gidel
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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
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“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” -Clint Borgen
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“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Scott Cameron
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“I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before.” -Unknown
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“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” -Hilaire Belloc
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“Everything I was I carry with me. Everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” -Ma Jian
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“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” -Susan Sontag
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“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” -Lawrence Durrell
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“Jet lag is for amateurs.” -Dick Clark
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” -Mark Twain
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“Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.” -Arab Proverb
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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 we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharial Nehru
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“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” -Chief Seattle
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“Find life experiences and swallow them whole. Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.” -Lawrence K. Fish
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“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” -Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” -Gentleman’s Wisdom
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“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” -Jaime Lyn
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“Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure” -Bob Bitchin
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“Spontaneity is the best kind of adventure”
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“Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.” -Steve Pavlina
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“Life was meant for good friends and great adventures”
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“Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” -Ewan Mcgregor
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“Adventure Awaits, Go find it.”
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“You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” -Sue Fitzmaurice
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“It’s time for a new adventure”
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“The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.”
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“Fill your life with adventures, not things. Have stories to tell not stuff to show.”
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“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
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“Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.” -John Amatt
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“If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventures should be top priority.” -Richard Branson
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“Do more than just exist”
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“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” -Winnie the Pooh
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“What is life but one grand adventure?”
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“Life is an adventure. Take risks.”
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“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” -Jack Kerouac
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“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” -Sir Richard Burton
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“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” -Jennifer Lee
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“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert
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“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Battuta
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“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
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“Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.”
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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
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“All you need to know is that it’s possible.” -Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker
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“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” -Anna Quindlen
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“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Work, Travel, Save, Repeat”
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“The journey not the arrival matters.” -T.S. Eliot
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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
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“Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
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“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” -Seneca
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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 we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharial Nehru
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“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” -Randy Komisar
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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
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“Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
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“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener
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“Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
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“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
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“Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” -Thomas Fuller
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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Agustine of Hippo
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“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” -Bill Bryson
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“Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
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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
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“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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“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” -Cesare Pavese
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“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” -Irving Wallace
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“Life is short and the world is wide”
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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” -Anaïs Nin
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“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
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“Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
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“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” -Mark Twain
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“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -Suzanne Collins
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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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“Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”
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“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” -Roy M. Goodman
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“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
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“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
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“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley
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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.” -Mark Twain
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“Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” -Confucius
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“Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan”
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“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” -Henry Rollins
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“Then I realized adventures are the best way to learn.”
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“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” -Herman Melville
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“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” -Eugene Fodor
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“Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” -Paolo Coelho
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“Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” -Eric Weiner
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“The goal is to die with memories not dreams”
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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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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” -Jack Kerouac
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“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” -Stephen Covey
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“With the right mindset and spirit, only the sky is the limit”
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“Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” -Mandy Hale
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“Everything you do is based on the choices you make” -Wayne Dyer
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“There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die”
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“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” -Mark Jenkins
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“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” -Arthur Frommer
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“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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“It feels good to be in the right direction.”
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“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.” -John A. Shedd
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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” -Anita Desai
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“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” -Karen Gibbs
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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” -Izaak Walton
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“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde
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“I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” -Nyssa P. Chopra
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“Veni, Vini, Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved.”
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“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.” -Edmund Hillary
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“Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”
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“I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it.”