Taking off Travel blog

Something a bit different this week – some more inspirational travel quotes. Hope you enjoy them, and feel free to share yours in the comments.

1. 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
2. We must travel in the direction of our fear. – John Berryman
3. It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. – Ursula Le Guin
4. The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  – St. Augustine
5. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
6. To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived. – Richard Bach
7. The only journey is the one within. – Rainer Maria Rilke
8. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. – Rabindranath Tagore
9. Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. – Les Brown
10. Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia. – Peanuts
11. We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lost sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. – Gloria Gaither
12. A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles – Tim Cahill
13. Voyage upon life’s sea, To yourself be true, And, whatever your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe. – Sarah Boulton
14. Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. – Greg Anderson
15. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.” – Richard Bach
16. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
17. Make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards! — Nikolai Gogol
18. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.- Mark Twain
19. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
20. In America, there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children. – Robert Benchley

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