I hope that you too have been given the gift of a voyage a time or two or three or too great to even count on both hands.

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of Heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. (OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Jr.)

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (MARK TWAIN)

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. (LORD CHESTERFIELD)

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface but you are never part of the water. (JAMES A. MICHENER)

Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way. (RALPH CRAWSHAW)

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. (G.K. CHESTERTON)

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read. (OSCAR WILDE)

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. (HILAIRE BELLOC)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we would find it not. (RALPH WALDO EMERSON)

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. (ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN)

Life is a journey, and love is what makes the journey worthwhile. (AUTHOR UNKNOWN)

The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes. (MARCEL PROUST)

I sought trains; I found passengers. (PAUL THEROUX)

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. (BABS HOFFMAN)

I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived. (ANNA LOUISE STRONG)

The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. (RUSSELL BAKER)

The place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes. (JAN MYRDAL)

A pleasant companion reduces the length of the journey. (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. (CONFUCIUS)

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. (URSULA K. LE GUIN)

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. (GEORGE MOORE)

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. (ERNEST HEMINGWAY)

The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty purse. (ENGLISH PROVERB)

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. (MASON COOLEY)

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. (JAMES BALDWIN)

I have found that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. (MARK TWAIN)

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. (CONFUCIUS)

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. (ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON)

Make voyages! Attempt them...there's nothing else. (TENNESSEE WILLIAMS)

If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. (SIR VIVIAN FUCHS)

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you... (JAN MYRDAL)

Travel should be no occasional fling, but a normal and frequent, integral part of one's life. (ARTHUR FROMMER)

A knowledge of the path cannot be substituted for putting one foot in front of the other. (M.C. RICHARDS)

The world is a great book...they who never stir from home read only a page. (ST. AUGUSTINE)