Alain de Botton Quotes, Travel Quotes, Giving Quotes

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

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One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

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Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Travel Quotes , Infrastructure Quotes

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Travel Quotes , Home Quotes

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Life Quotes , Travel Quotes

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Travel Quotes

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

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They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Travel Quotes , Sky Quotes

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Travel Quotes

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Travel Quotes , Wonderland Quotes

I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Travel Quotes , Eye Quotes

When you travel you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak....You begin to be more accessible to others, because they may be able to help you in difficult situations.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Travel Quotes , Journey Quotes

Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.

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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Travel Quotes , Home Quotes

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

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Tags : A. A. Gill Quotes , Travel Quotes , Years Quotes

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Travel Quotes , Hate Quotes

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Travel Quotes , Moving Quotes

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Travel Quotes , Typical Quotes

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Travel Quotes , Moving Quotes