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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
Oct 1, 2025
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
When the strongest nation in the world can be tied up for years in a war with no end in sight, when the richest nation in the world can't manage its own economy, when the nation with the greatest tradition of the rule of law is plagued by unprecedented lawlessness, and when the President of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration - then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America.
I do a lot of walking around in game parks, rain forests, places like that, but it's not like I'm camping in them as much as my day walks. I've done that all over the world, not like with a backpack on my back living out in the woods for several days. When I travel abroad, it's more the city that captures my interest.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.
Once a year go someplace you've never been.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
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.
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
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.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
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.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Mary
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
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.
We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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.'
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.