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Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

Travel makes you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.