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Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.
A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
The Art of Travel
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
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears
Traveling is almost like talking with those of other centuries
He who will travel far spares his steed
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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