The Travel Quote Trail to Thailand! 89 days... "My favorite thing is to go where I've never been." -Diane Arbus

The Travel Quote Trail to Thailand! 89 days...
1. "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. -Anatole France
2. "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." -Mark Twain
3. "I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself." -James Baldwin
4. "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
5. "I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine." -Caskie Stinnett
6. "The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” -Samuel Johnson
7. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” -Paul Fussell
8. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -Samuel Johnson 9. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
11. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” -Cesare Pavese
12. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
13. ″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” -Moslih Eddin Saadi
14. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” - Freya Stark
15. “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
16. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
17. “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.” -Jawaharial Nehru
18. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” -Paul Theroux
19. “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
20. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” -Charles Dudley Warner
22. "A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” -Lao Tzu
23. "The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." -G.K. Chesterton
24. "We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." -Hilaire Belloc
25. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” -Pat Conroy
26. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -Lao Tzu
27. "A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." -John Steinbeck
28. "In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language." -Mark Twain
29. "Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse." -Thomas Fuller
30. “Not all those who wander are lost.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
31. "Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." -Benjamin Disraeli
32. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou
33. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” -Elizabeth Drew
34. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” -Seneca

35. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do -especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” -William Least Heat Moon

36. “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” -Lillian Smith

37. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -Aldous Huxley

38. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” -Freya Stark

39. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” -Rudyard Kipling
40. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” -Paul Theroux
41. “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

42. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” -Carlo Goldoni

43. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” -Mark Jenkins

44. "He who would travel happily must travel light." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

45. "Certainly, 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

46. "The saying 'Getting there is half the fun' became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines." -Henry J. Tillman

47. "I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad." -George Bernard Shaw

48. "The man who goes out alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." -Henry David Thoreau
48. "It is better to travel well than to arrive." -Buddha
49. "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." -Anais Nin
50. "Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up." -Ernest Hemingway
51. "Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo." -Al Gore
52. "Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it." -Eudora Welty
53. "We must travel in the direction of our fear." -John Berryman
54. "Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly." -Ella Maillart
55. "People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live." -Martin Yan
56. "We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own." -Maria Mitchell
57. "You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself." -Ella Maillart
58. "As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." -James Lane Allen
59. "Travel teaches toleration." -Benjamin Disraeli
60. "To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change." -Charles Horton Cooley
61. "The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff." -Britney Spears
62. “The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster.” -Martha Gellman
63. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." --Helen Keller
64. "Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries." -- René Descartes
65. 'But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?" -- Noel Coward
66. "No matter where you go, there you are." – unknown
67. "If you don't know where you are going, any road will lead you there." -- unknown
68. "Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken." -Frank Herbert
69. "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." — Mohammed
70. "Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions." — Peter Hoeg
71. "Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." — Lawrence Block
72. "Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged." — Howard Gardner
73. "I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this - we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." -Hilaire Belloc
74. "Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way." -Ralph Crawshaw
75. "We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey." -John Hope Franklin
76. "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." - Susan Heller
77. "If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel." -Will Kommen
78. "We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." -Marcel Proust
79. "Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it." -Eudora Welty
80. "A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours." -John B. Priestly
81. "When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in...." -D. H. Lawrence
82. “What place would you advise me to visit now?” he asked. “The planet Earth,” replied the geographer. “It has a good reputation.” -Antoine De Saint-Exupery
83. "....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
84. "Jet lag is for amateurs." -Dick Clark
85. "The first experience can never be repeated. The first love, the first sun-rise, the first South Sea Island, are memories apart, and touched a virginity of sense." -Robert Louis Stevenson
86. "...the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home." -Paul Theroux
87. "It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path." -Soren Kierkegaard
88. "Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." -Jack Kerouac

89. "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." -Susan Sontag