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People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

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Not all those who wander are lost. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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