Travel

“In Life, It’s Not Where You Go, It’s Who You Travel With” –  Charles Schulz
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLain
“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi
“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll
“What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault 
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” -Kurt Vonnegut
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt
“He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” – Chinese proverb
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” –Seneca
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
 “People don’t take trips – trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” –Mohammed
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc
“Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” –The Dhammapada
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls” – Anais Nin
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart. “– Confucius
“Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” — Lily Leung





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