1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

2. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

3. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

4. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

5. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

6. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

7. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

8. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

9. “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

10. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

12. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman

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Source: Expert Vagabond/Good Reads/Earth Trekkers