“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett
“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”— Anna Quindlen
“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”— Jhumpa Lahiri, amazon.com
“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 grap…”— Mark Jenkins, goodreads.com
“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”— Sarah Dessen, sarahdessen.com
“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.”— Miriam Adeney, goodreads.com
“Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.”— David Sedaris, davidsedarisbooks.com
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same”— Sarah Turnbull, goodreads.com
“What makes expat life so addictive is that every boring or mundane activity you experience at home (like grocery shopping, commuting to work or picking up the dry cleaning) is, when you move to a foreign country, suddenly transformed into an exciting adventure. Try finding peanut butter in a Japanes…”— Reannon Muth, takenbythewind.com
“When I first moved to London, I felt very homesick and yearned after the countryside a lot. Because London's hard. It's a big place, and it's lonely. It takes a while to get into it. But once I got into the flow of it and started to grow up, I realised that my home is wherever I am.”— Toby Kebbell, brainyquote.com
“My father says you remember the smell of your country no matter where you are but only recognize it when you're far away.”— Aglaja Veteranyi, amazon.com
“If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.”— Stephen King, goodreads.com
“Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, conte…”— Victoria Erickson, victoriaerickson.com
“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, goodreads.com
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”— Clint Borgen, borgenproject.org
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imag…”— Cesare Pavese, goodreads.com
“Every new place you visit, person you encounter, new aromas you smell or things you see will make your brain unchain. It is then when your thinking will spark in new creative directions. Use this to make great things for yourself (or for others) happen. Have a project, write a blog, take cooking les…”— Laura Beltrán Villamizar, laurabelvilla.com