People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

—Dagobert D. Runes

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About Dagobert D. Runes

Dagobert David Runes (January 6, 1902 – September 24, 1982) was an immigrant publisher in the US, a philosopher and author.

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

—Elizabeth Drew

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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.

—Caskie Stinnett

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Traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby―I just don't care what it puts me through.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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