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  • #1
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #2
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #3
    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

  • #4
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #5
    Jack Kerouac
    “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 good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

  • #6
    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

  • #7
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #8
    Judith Thurman
    “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

  • #9
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To travel is to live.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

  • #10
    Marcel Proust
    “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #11
    Jack Kerouac
    “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

  • #12
    Anderson Cooper
    “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
    Anderson Cooper

  • #13
    “Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.”
    Roseanne Barr

  • #14
    Jennifer  Ball
    “One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. I have always gone out on a limb for love. A dangerous, romantic, disappointing way to live.”
    Jennifer Ball, Higher Math: The Book Moose Minnion Never Wrote

  • #15
    Naomi Shihab Nye
    “The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.”
    Naomi Shihab Nye

  • #16
    Cesare Pavese
    “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
    You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
    Cesare Pavese

  • #17
    Santosh Kalwar
    “If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.”
    Santosh Kalwar

  • #18
    Alice Steinbach
    “I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.”
    Alice Steinbach, Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

  • #19
    Pico Iyer
    “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
    Pico Iyer

  • #20
    Clive Barker
    “Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.”
    Clive Barker, The Thief of Always

  • #21
    Bryce Anderson
    “Across galaxies of time and space
    Travelling just to see your face
    Lost amidst the countless stars
    To bring me back to where you are.”
    Bryce W. Anderson

  • #23
    Elisabeth Eaves
    “The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is impossible because the perfection is only ever an instant passed through. Love like travel is a series of moments that we immediately leave behind. Still we try to hold on and embalm against all evidence and common sense proclaiming our promises and plans. The more I loved him the more I felt hope. But hope acknowledges uncertainty and so I also felt my first premonitions of loss.”
    Elisabeth Eaves, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents

  • #24
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “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 of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”
    Patrick Rothfuss

  • #25
    Shane L. Koyczan
    “Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”
    Shane Koyczan

  • #26
    John Masefield
    “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain,
    And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

    John Masefield

  • #27
    Thomas Jefferson
    “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more."

    (Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)”
    Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Vol 11, January 1787 to August 1787

  • #28
    Trina Schart Hyman
    “I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.”
    Trina Schart Hyman, Self-Portrait: Trina Schart Hyman

  • #29
    Roman Payne
    “With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”
    Roman Payne

  • #30
    Robert Penn Warren
    “I was headed out down a long bone-white road, straight as a string and smooth as glass and glittering and wavering in the heat and humming under the tires like a plucked nerve. I was doing seventy-five but I never seemed to catch up with the pool which seemed to be over the road just this side of the horizon. Then, after a while, the sun was in my eyes, for I was driving west. So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.
    It was just where I went.”
    Robert Penn Warren

  • #31
    “Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.”
    Paul Sheehan



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