Travel Quotes for the Adventure Traveler

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointedby the things you didn't do than 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

"He who would travel happilymust travel light."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu

"A journey is like a marriage.The certain way to be wrong is

to think you control it." - John Steinbeck

"All journeys have secret destinationsof which the traveler is unaware."

- Martin Buber

"Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps.The sleeper must be awaken."

- Frank Herbert

"I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonderthan to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything."

- Bill Bryson

"There are no foreign lands.It is the traveler only who is foreign."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"A traveler without observationis a bird without wings."- Saadi

"Though we travel to find the beautiful,we must carry it with us or we will not find it."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world is a book andthose who do not travel

read only one page."- St. Augustine

"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 Téran

"A good traveler has no fixed plansand is not intent on arriving."

- Lao Tzu

"The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes, and goes on his way."- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

"Wandering re-establishes the original harmonywhich once existed between man and the universe."

- Anatole France

"Not all who wander are lost."- J.R.R. Tolkien

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is oneof the pleasantest sensations in the world."- Freya Stark

"Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness." - Ray Bradbury

"One's destination is never a place,

but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel,not a destination." - Roy M. Goodman

"Travel is fatal toprejudice, bigotry, and

narrow-mindeness."- Mark Twain

"Do not tell me how educated you are,tell me how much you traveled."

- Muhammad

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land;it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."- G.K. Chesterton

"I travel a lot;I hate having my life disrupted by routine."

- Caskie Stinnett

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." - Seneca

"If you reject the food,ignore the costumes,

fear the religion and avoid the people,

you might better stay at home."- James Michener

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

- Rudyard Kipling

"One always begins to forgive a placeas soon as it's left behind."

- Charles Dickens

"I have found out that there ain't no surer wayto find out whether you like people or hate themthan to travel with them." - Mark Twain

"A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles." - Tim Cahill

"I travel not to go anywhere,

but to go. I travel for

travel's sake. The great affair is

to move."- Robert Louis

Stevenson

"Travel makes one modest.You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

- Gustave Flaubert

"I'm not the same after having seen the moonshine on the other side of the world."

- Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

"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

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but it is played out over and over again in the quietest chamber.

The mind can never break off from the journey."- Pat Conroy

"Remembering that you are going to die one day is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."- Steve Jobs

About to turn forty, Carlos Peñalba quits his senior position at afinancial software firm in New York City to travel through Asia

for a year. Although his main objective is to explore a continentalmost unknown to him, he also intends to use his journey tofulfill his dream of becoming a writer and a photographer.

Carlos’s original plan would take him from Nepal to Japan, butunexpected circumstances force him to alter his route andextend his adventure to eighteen months. After trekking highpeaks, reaching remote cultures, having some interestingencounters and taking up vipassana meditation, the end of hislong journey would bring him (where he less expects it)something much more important than a new career.

A TRAVEL MEMOIR

"Out of Office... For Good"

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