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15 Inspirational Travel Quotes

By David Markle
1. "In life, it's not where you go, it's who you travel with."                               -- Charles Schulz   
                                                           

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2. "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." -- Gustave Flaubert
 
3. "You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again." -- Azar Nafisi
 
4. "Travel as much as you can, as far as you can, as long as you can. Life's not meant to be lived in one place." -- Unknown

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5. "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."           -- Lao Tzu
                                                                              
6. "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."                 -- Mark Twain
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7. "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." -- Anita Desai
 
8. "The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -- St. Augustine                                                                                                                            

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9. "You will never be completely home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place."                               -- Miriam Adeney
                                                                                                                    
10. "Once a year, go someplace you've never been before."              -- Dalai Lama

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11. "Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts. It even breaks your heart. But that's ok. 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're leaving something good behind."                           --  Anthony Bourdain

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12. "I'd rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff."      -- Unknown
 
13. "I urge you: go find buildings and mountains and oceans to swallow you whole. They will save you, in a way nothing else can."                               -- Christopher Poindexter                                                                           

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14. "If you never go, you'll never know." -- Unknown
 
15. "Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport." -- Unknown

                                                      

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