Quotes on Travel Bug

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.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

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.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

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

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.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

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.

Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.