"A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place...."
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
Maya Angelou
"I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value." - Christopher Fry
"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents." -Italo Calvino
"NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself."
- Walt Whitman
"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards." - Spanish Proverb
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." - Lin Yutang
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
-Aldous Huxley
"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." - Lawrence Durrell
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere." - Rumi
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain
"To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
- Freya Stark (1893-1993)
Pictures by: Zeena Al Towayya
