"(Travel has) taught me to give up control. It's deepened my sense of awe... It's made me deeply comfortable with myself." ~ Mary Beth Bond
Travel is similar to therapy. You can go to the best psychologist in the world for ten years. If you don’t feel like actively shifting anything in your life, there is nothing that person can do to change you. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible. ~ Mark Jenkins, To Timbuktu
He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit. ~ Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence — free of the networks of dead speech. ~ Freya Stark
Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels. ~ Socrates
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain
Voyager bien est un art. Traveling well is an art, one that is best mastered with a little help. ~ Melissa Biggs-Bradley
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. ~ Samuel Johnson