“If I were asked to enumerate the pleasures of travel, this would be one of the greatest among them - that so often and so unexpectedly you meet the best in human nature, and seeing it so by surprise and often with a most improbable background, you come, with a sense of pleasant thankfulness, to realize how widely scattered in the world are goodness and courtesy and the love of immaterial things, fair blossoms found in every climate, on every soil.” – Freya Stark

 

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

 

“Travel is necessary to understanding man. Such delicate goods as justice, love, honor and courtesy are valid everywhere, but they are variously molded, often differently handled, and sometimes nearly unrecognizable if you meet them in a foreign land.” –  Freya Stark

 

“The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel for those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.” – Freya Stark from Perseus in the Wind

 

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”– Freya Stark

 

“On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.”– Freya Stark

 

“Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or a penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles...Modern education ignores the need for solitude: hence a decline in religion, in poetry, in all the deeper affections of the spirit: a disease to be doing something always, as if one could never sit quietly and let the puppet show unroll itself before one: an inability to lose oneself in mystery and wonder while, like a wave lifting us into new seas, the history of the world develops around us.” – Freya Stark

 

“What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.”– Freya Stark

 

“Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.” 

 

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.”– Freya Stark

 

“I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving” – Freya Stark

 

“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for travelling?– Freya Stark

 

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”– Freya Stark

 

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now forever.”– Freya Stark

 

From others:

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

 

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

 

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

 

 “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

 

“Travel makes one modest, you see what at tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

 

“Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

 

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

 

“Ones destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

 

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

 

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Elliot

 

 “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag

 

“There’s always a way, if you’re not in a hurry.” – Paul Theroux

 

 “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

 

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen