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

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.  – Susan Sontag

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.  – Lao Tzu

Not all those who wander are lost.  – J. R. R. Tolkien

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.  – Marcel Proust

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.  – Freya Stark

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.  – Mark Twain

Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.  – Unknown

Travel teaches how to see.  – African proverb

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.  – Douglas Adams

The rewards of the journey far outweigh the risk of leaving the harbor.  – Unknown

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.  – Katharine Butler Hathaway

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  – Robert Frost

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.  – Paul Theroux

A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.  – J B Priestley

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.  – Bill Bryson

Venture all; see what fate brings.  – Vietnamese Proverb

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.  – Martin Buber

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.  – Caskie Stinnett

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret?  – Peter Mathiesson

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore… unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible… it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors… to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.  – Ferdinand Magellan

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

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.  – Bill Bryson

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.  – Jawaharal Nehru

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.  – Frank Herbert

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there.  – Unknown

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

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.  – Henry Miller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.  – Helen Keller

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travels sake. The great affair is to move.  – Robert Louis Stevenson

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 harbour. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.  – Mark Twain