It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
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
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
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