I started to collect quotes which reflect my travels and resonate with the emotions and feelings I've had along the way. Before I knew it, I had amassed over 50 quotes and so decided to split them over a few articles.

I would like to start with a quote of my own creation. This took me a while to compile with probably too much thought on the subject of travel.

Navigating the world liberates the mind, the heart set free by souls met along the way.Ugo Domizioli

With this first set of quotes, (Volume I), I wanted to tell you my thinking towards long-term travel and why it's so important to me.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.Paulo Coelho

Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind! Dr. Seuss

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Mark Twain

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. Fulton Oursler

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! Hunter S. Thompson

What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. W. H. Murray

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. Pico Lyer

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it. Alexander Sattler

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. Asian Proverb

My personal favourite from this first volume:

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Sren Kierkegaard

The photograph on this page, is from a day trip on scooters around various sites on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia. This was near the begining of my trip and was very special to me. This group invited me to join them on their day trip despite me not having been on a scooter for over 30 years and feeling apprehensive. Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your day, and yes, that includes getting drenched in the thunderstorm on the journey home!

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