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Here are some quotes about traveling

No matter where you go, there you are! Oliver's Law of Location

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination. Roy M. Goodman

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782- 1857).

Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries. Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. Saint Augustine (354-430) City of God, 413-426.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. George Moore (1852-1933).

When I am . . . traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).

  By the time we are, in our superior wisdom, decided to make a start, we discover that those who have gone fearlessly on before, have, in their blundering way, traveled a considerable distance. If you start now, you will know a lot next year that you don't know now, and that you will not know next year, if you wait. The William Feather Magazine.

A traveller without observation is a bird without wings. Moslih Eddin Saadi (1184-1291)

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld.

A wise traveler never despises his own country. Carlo Goldoni.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. Clifton Fadiman.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. Henry Tuckerman (1813-1871).

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854).

"A good traveler is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from."      

- Lin Yutang(1895-1976)                  

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