Friday, May 29, 2009

The Voyage Never Ends!

As everyone knows, I love to travel. Always have and probably always will. I recently stumbled upon a number of travel quotes, some of which I really like, that I’d like to share.

• “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine
• “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
• “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” - Moorish proverb
• “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
• “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
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller
• “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
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” - Martin Buber
• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” - Charles Dudley Warner
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu
• “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
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien
• “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
• “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
• “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” - Rudyard Kipling
• “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

Hope that you may have found one or two quotes that you enjoyed!

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