Quotes…

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

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” 
- Paul Theroux

“Not all those who wander are lost.” 
- J. R. R. Tolkien

“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.” 
- Jackie Kennedy

“A good traveller has no fixed plan and is not intent on arriving.” 
- Lao Tzu

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do… Explore. Dream. Discover.”
- Mark Twain

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
- Caskie Stinnett

“A year to go around the world! A whole twelve months of scenes and curious happenings in far-off foreign lands! You have thought of doing this, almost promised yourself that when you got old enough, and rich enough, and could “spare the time,” you too would go around the world. Most of us get old enough; some of us get rich enough; but the time! the time! - to spare the time, to cut loose from goods and lands, from stocks and dreary desks, quit clients, patients, readers, home and friends - ay, and our enemies whom we so dearly love! Full many a promise must be broken and few the voyagers round the world.”
- D.N. Richardson, “A Girdle Round the Earth“, 1888

“Tourists go somewhere and complain that nothing is the same as it is at home, while travellers complain that everything’s the same…”
- Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred (paraphrased by a friend, Brad, who recommended the book to me. I just started it but enjoying it a lot!)