1)       “It is your choice to be a traveler, tourist or foreigner. There is nothing wrong with either option. A traveler can proclaim ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’, while a tourist and a foreigner can’t.” ~ Doris Chow

 

2)       “It is easy to differentiate between a traveler and non-traveler.  One is open-minded, accepting, humble, gracious, imaginative, spontaneous and fun loving. The other is neither.” ~ Doris Chow

 

3)        “One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect, the whole world feels like home for a while.” ~ Herman Hesse

 

4)       “It’s a dangerous business, 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.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkein

 

5)       “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” ~ Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

 

6)       “A ship in harbour is safe – but that is not what ships are built for.” ~ John A. Shedd

 

7)       “Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes – with all this taken away you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of whom it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable but it is always invigorating.” ~ Michael Crichton

 

8)       “The journey is the reward.” ~ Taoist saying

 

9)       “The greatest barrier to travel is the door out of your own country. The others seem easier to open.” ~ Julie Terry

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1)       “Today is the best day in my entire life, for I live only in the present. My past ended when I fell asleep last night, my future will start when I wake up tomorrow.” ~ Doris Chow

 

2)       “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” ~ Mark Twain

 

3)       “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ St. Augustine

 

4)       “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

 

5)       “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” ~ Samuel Johnson

 

6)       “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 traveler learns not to repeat success but tries new places all the time.” ~ Paul Fussell

 

7)       “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” ~ Moorish proverb

 

8)       “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” ~ Dagobert D. Runes

 

9)       “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it.” ~ John Steinbeck

 

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

 

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