“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

– Miriam Beard– Norway

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

― Marcel Proust

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”

― G.K. Chesterton

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

― Gustave Flaubert

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

― Henry Miller

“…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.”

― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.”

― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

“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

“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”

― Kate Douglas Wiggin, New Chronicles of Rebecca

“Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”

― Shane Koyczan

“Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.”

― Paul Sheehan

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
– Samuel Johnson

Because how we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives- Anne Dillard

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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