"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing'." - Daniel J. Boorstin

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. " - James Michener

"Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind." - Seneca

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

"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

"Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" - Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

"He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation." -Spalding Gray

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel." -- Will Kommen

"What knows he of England, who only England knows?" - Rudyard Kipling

"God made the world round so we could never be able to see too far down the road" - Isak Dinesen

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