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Quotes About Travel and Losing Oneself!


Just a few hours ago, we arrived home from St. Louis. Had a great time, ate in some amazing restaurants and played tourist. I went looking for a few quotes that would fit our trip... :) Can't wait to start out again on another adventure!!

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.  Lao Tzu

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
 Saint Augustine



Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.  Anatole France

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.  Ray Bradbury

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.  Lin Yutang

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.  Mark Twain

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.  Seneca

 The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.”
 G. K. Chesterton

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."  Daniel J. Boorstin

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
Lillian Smith

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives - is the only way we can leave the future open.
Lillian Smith

It is not down in any map; true places never are.  Herman Melville

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.  William Least Heat Moon,

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.  Regina Nadelson