Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Top 10 inspiring quotes about travel

Five weeks from today I will be leaving Chicago and be on my way to Spain! Just need to get through finals and endless packing first!

I came across 'The 50 most inspiring travel quotes of all time' - here are my top 10.
  • “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
  • “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
  • “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
  • “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
  • “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
  • “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
  • “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
  • “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

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  2. Can't wait to come and see you and this beautiful city of Granada!

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