Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

— Joseph Stine, U.S. playwrigt best known playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba, 1912-2010

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

— Unknown Source

The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.

— Unknown Source

We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.

— Unknown Source

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

— Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic, 1930-2013

The more I travel, the more I realize that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

— Shirley MacLaine, U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, Born 1934

A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity, whether he travels or not; but one of superior talent . . . will go to seed if he always remains in the same place.

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer and musician, 1756-1791

The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.

— St. Augustine, Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.

Those who wander are not necessarily lost.

— Joseph Stine, U.S. playwrigt best known playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba, 1912-2010

Our moment on stage is so brief, but if you can be aware of the ingredients that make up the stage upon which you live your life, you can enjoy the dance of life ever so much more.

— Ruth Kirk, U.S. naturalist, photographer, and author, Born 1944

It is through travel that we catch a glimpse of the unity, the continuous and the discrete, the forest and the trees -the pieces of the mosaic that give us the sum of life.

— Richard Bangs, U.S. travel writer, Born 1950

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 to understand each other, we may even become friends.

— Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

— Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.

Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently.

— Andrew Solomon, U.S. writer on politics, culture, and psychology, Born 1963

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

— Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935

Own what you can always carry with you; know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your bag.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, short story writer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1918-2008

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the home shore.

— Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951

Travel is always both a window and a mirror. Partly what you do is discover another place, and part of what you do is view yourself and your own country differently.

— Andrew Solomon, U.S. writer on politics, culture, and psychology, Born 1963

Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the grade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.

— Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910

When traveling, you learn who you are, and are not, when you’re splashed up against a foreign environment.

— Shirley MacLaine, U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, Born 1934

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

— Neale Donald Walsch, U.S. author, author, actor, screenwriter, and speaker, Born 1943
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