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All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
Sep 10, 2025
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.
Every hundred feet the world changes
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.
Let your memory be your travel bag.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
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.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.
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