15 Best Quotes for Gay Travelers

POSTED BY Sarah M. Davidson ON Apr 25th, 2012 IN Top 10's, Rates and Reviews | 0 COMMENTS
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“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –John Steinbeck

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have first-hand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

 

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