A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

- Katharine Butler Hathaway -

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to – except heaven and hell.

I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

- Mark Twain -

Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty — his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

- Aldous Huxley -

You may wonder, ‘How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?’ The answer lies in the return.

You will not come back to the ‘same old thing.’ What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river (The Book of the Vision Quest).

- Steven Foster -

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

- Lawrence Durrell -