Travel
- Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before leading wherever I choose.--Walt Whitman ("Song of the Open Road" Leaves of Grass)
- Any successful journey begins by packing your luggage full of imagination.--Kathrine Palmer Peterson
- As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.--Margaret Mead
- Certainly, 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 (Realism in Romantic Japan)
- The end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.--T. S. Eliot ("Little Gidding")
- 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 ("Cheylard and Luc" Travels with a Donkey)
- A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.-~Lao Tzu
- He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
- He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him.--Dutch proverb
- He who would travel happily must travel light.--Antoine Saint-Exupery (Wind, Sand, and Stars)
- I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.--Charles Bukowski
- I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.--Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
- The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.--Agnes Repplier ("The American Takes a Holiday" Time and Tendencies)
- It is not down on any map; true places never are.--Herman Melville (Moby-Dick; or, The Whale)
- A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.--George Moore
- The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.--Shirley MacLaine
- My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.--Diane Arbus
- My heart is warm with the friend I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.--Edna St. Vincent Millay ("Travel" Second April)
- No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.--Lin Yutang
- Ones destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.--Henry Miller
- 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 to understand each other, we may even become friends.--Maya Angelou ("Passports to Understanding" Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)
- Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.--Robert J. Hastings ("The Station")
- Strong and content I travel the open road.--Walt Whitman
- There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.--Mark Caine
- To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.--Charles Horton Cooley
- To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.
--Hans Christian Andersen
- To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step.--Vimala Thakar
- To travel is to take a journey into yourself.--Danny Kaye
- Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.--Henry Tuckerman
- The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.--G. K. Chesterton
- A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.--Moslih Eddin Saadi
- Travelling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return, But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.--Jan Myrdal (The Silk Road)
- Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like to much wrapping paper, the traveler finds himself reduced to more modest proportion – but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.--Nicolas Bouvier (The Way of the World)
- Trips do not end when you return home--usually this is the time when in a sense they really begin.--Agnes E. Benedict and Adele Franklin (The Happy Home)
- 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 world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.--Saint Augustine
- You are in the driver's seat of your life and can point your life down any road you want to travel. You can go as fast or as slow as you want to go ... and you can change the road you're on at any time.--Jinger Heath
- You gotta be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.--Yogi Berra
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