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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Voyages are accomplished inwardly.
We may value foreign elements not only because they are new but because they seem to accord more faithfully with our identity and commitments than anything our homeland can provide.
The Art of Travel
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unf�ted but life-enhancing thoughts.
The Art of Travel
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
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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
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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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