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  • #1
    Galit Breen
    “Checking in on what our kids are doing online isn't helicoptering, it's parenting.”
    Galit Breen, Kindness Wins

  • #2
    Jane Smiley
    “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
    Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

  • #3
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
    Lloyd Alexander

  • #4
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am a part of everything that I have read.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #5
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    “I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
    Benedict Cumberbatch

  • #6
    “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.”
    Helen Exley

  • #7
    Caroline Kepnes
    “The problem with books is that they end.”
    Caroline Kepnes, You

  • #8
    Jane Austen
    “If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
    Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

  • #9
    Lena Dunham
    “Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
    Lena Dunham

  • #10
    Jasper Fforde
    “The real world is a book in bad need of an editor”
    Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

  • #11
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “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

  • #12
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

  • #13
    Anaïs Nin
    “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

  • #14
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “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, Tom Sawyer Abroad

  • #16
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    Derek Walcott

  • #17
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “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

  • #18
    Alain de Botton
    “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”
    Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

  • #19
    Clifton Fadiman
    “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

  • #20
    Maya Angelou
    “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, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

  • #22
    Michael Palin
    “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
    Michael Palin

  • #23
    Anthony Doerr
    “Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.”
    Anthony Doerr

  • #24
    Saadi
    “Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.”
    Saadi

  • #25
    Agnes Repplier
    “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
    Agnes Repplier

  • #26
    “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!”
    Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities

  • #27
    Elias Canetti
    “Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”
    Elias Canetti, The Voices of Marrakesh

  • #28
    “Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.”
    Lovelle Drachman

  • #29
    Jodi Picoult
    “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
    Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care



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