A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
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.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
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.
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
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