1. Adventure = Joy
"All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time"
-Paul Fussell
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"
-Robert Louis Stevenson
2. You develop a new, better pair of eyes
"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
3. There is too much out there not to explore
"We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek with our eyes open"
-Jawaharial Nehru
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware"
-Martin Buber
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Your true identity reveals itself
"Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self determined, self motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white"
-Mark Jenkins"Everyman is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again."
-Herman Hesse
5. A clean slate
"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
-William Least Heat Moon
6. Challenges = Growth
"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"Go further. Go beyond. Go as far as you can. The limit is only in the mind. When you reach it, break it!"
-Jahira Banu Haniffa
7. You might learn how to love
"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
"Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter and notice what happens"
-Wayne Dyer
"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other"
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home"
-Dagobert D. Runes
