Inspirational quotes I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.

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 more lovingly, our own.

By Margaret Mead

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I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

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I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

By Mary Anne Radmacher

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I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

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Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We ge

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Life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone…It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?

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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.’

05/15/2018

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.’

By Lisa. St. Aubin de Teran

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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.’

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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.

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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.

By Pat Conroy

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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.

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Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.

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Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.

By Ross Morley

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Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.

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

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

By Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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Travel brings power and love back into your life.

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Travel brings power and love back into your life.

By Rumi

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Travel brings power and love back into your life.

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The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.

By Dr. Seuss

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The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.

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If you can’t live longer, live deeper.

05/15/2018

If you can’t live longer, live deeper.

By Italian Proverb

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If you can’t live longer, live deeper.

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Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

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Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

By Ibn Battuta

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Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

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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 knowledg

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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

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The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.

05/15/2018

The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.

By G.K. Chesterton

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The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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To travel is to evolve.

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To travel is to evolve.

By Pierre Bernardo

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To travel is to evolve.

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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

By James Michener

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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

By Albert Einstein

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The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

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He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

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He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

By Moorish Proverb

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He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

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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.

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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.

By G.K. Chesterton

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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.

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Take only memories, leave only footprints.

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Take only memories, leave only footprints.

By Chief Seattle

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Take only memories, leave only footprints.

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

By Clifton Fadiman

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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

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I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

By Harun Yahya

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I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

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Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

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Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

By Thomas Fuller

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Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

By Seneca

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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

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If Obama wins, I’m leaving the country. If Romney wins, I’m leaving the country. This has nothing to do with politics; I just want to travel.

05/15/2018

If Obama wins, I’m leaving the country. If Romney wins, I’m leaving the country. This has nothing to do with politics; I just want to travel.

By Unknown

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If Obama wins, I’m leaving the country. If Romney wins, I’m leaving the country. This has nothing to do with politics; I just want to travel.

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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

By Ray Bradbury

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Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight seeing.’

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight seeing.’

By Daniel J. Boorstin

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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight seeing.’

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

By Hilaire Belloc

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We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

By Francis Bacon

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going.

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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going.

By Paul Theroux

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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been; travelers don’t know where they’re going.

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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.

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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.

By Maya Angelou

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Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

By Chinese Proverb

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Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

By Lillian Smith

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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

By Benjamin Disraeli

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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.

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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.

By Mark Twain

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I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.

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A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

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A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

By Tim Cahill

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A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.

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The journey not the arrival matters.

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The journey not the arrival matters.

By T.S. Eliot

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The journey not the arrival matters.

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There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

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There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

By Jack Kerouac

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There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

By Henry David Thoreau

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

By Helen Keller

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

05/15/2018

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

By Andrew Zimmern

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Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

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