"Not all those who wander are lost" -JRR Tolkien
"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." -Carson McCullers
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." -St. Augustine
"There are two ways of getting home, and one of them is to stay there." -G.K. Chesterton
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." -G K Chesterson
All of these quotes are beautiful. And incite within me the internal battle I fight between my great desires, dreams, lusts in life. Sometimes, I want stability and comfort... cultural, geographic, social, lingual. Then, I am reminded of my great pull in life to explore, to wander. The need for constant change, challenge, learning, discomfort, uncertainty, independence, self-sufficiency.
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