I feel like my whole travel story is filtered in Terry Pratchett’s Big Bang theory:

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded”.

His tongue-in-cheek wisdom has helped me see the world’s bright side, no matter where in this world I’ve been. Here’s a collection of 29 of my favorite Terry Pratchett’s quotes regarding various travel situations:

Tips to remember on your first trip…

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

“We’ve got a lot of experience of not having any experience.”

“Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.”

“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.”

When in Amsterdam…

“My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.”

When in Spain…

“Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.”

When something goes wrong, remind yourself that…

“Freedom without limits is just a word.”

“There isn’t a way things should be. There’s just what happens, and what we do.”

“It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it.”

“Do you think it’s possible for an entire nation to be insane?”

“This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.”

“Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.”

“So, everything in this world ran its natural course. Except for everything else that went heels over head.”

“Sometimes you laugh because you’ve got no more room for crying.”

When you’re afraid…

“Cowards make the best strategists.”

“Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.”

When you get lost…

“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn’t.”

While you watch the sunrise…

“The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn’t sure it was worth all the effort.”

When you had it coming…

“He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting ‘All the Gods are bastards.”

When you’re bored…

“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.”

“Everything looks interesting until you do it.”

Traveling in style…

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.”

When you keep on postponing that amazing trip, remember that…

“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”

“If you don’t turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else’s story.”

“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.”

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

“So much universe, and so little time.”

“You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?… It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It’s all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad plowmen instead. It’s all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it’s even possible to find out. It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be. It’s all the wasted chances.”

“When in doubt, choose to live.”

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#1 It is not down in any map, true places never are – Herman Melville

#2 Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan

#3 I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

#4 Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again. – Anthony Doerr

#5 Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

#6 Wherever you go, go with all your heart! – Confucius

#7 There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it. – Charlotte Eriksson

#8 I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. – Bill Bryson

#9 There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

#10 To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

#11 Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

#12 I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber

#13 At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling. – Shanti

#14 Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or moving your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. – Jack Kerouac

#15 Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. – Judith Thurman

#16 Travel is still the most intense mode of learning. – Kevin Kelly

#17 Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch

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“From the dome of St. Peter’s one can see every notable object in Rome… He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe.” – Mark Twain

“Rome is not like any other city. It’s a big museum, a living room that shall be crossed on one’s toes.” – Alberto Sordi.

“Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life… Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

”Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.” – Robert De Niro

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“Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I’m there, it’s like a holiday.” – Giambattista Valli

“A fool is one who admires other cities without visiting Rome.” – Francesco Petrarca 

“Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.” – George Eliot

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”If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” – Ernest Hemingway

”Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.” – Honoré de Balzac

”There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even – the French air clears up the brain and does good – a world of good.” ― Vincent van Gogh

”Paris is the city in which one loves to live. Sometimes I think this is because it is the only city in the world where you can step out of a railway station – the Gare D’Orsay – and see, simultaneously, the chief enchantments: the Seine with its bridges and bookstalls, the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, the beginning of the Champs Elysees – nearly everything except the Luxembourg Gardens and the Palais Royal. But what other city offers as much as you leave a train?” ― Margaret Anderson

”An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.” – Friedrich Nietzsce

”People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain… or Iran are the best places to pick saffron. If you want to pick opium poppies you go to Burma or South-East Asia. And if you want to pick novel ideas, you go to Paris.” – Roman Payne

”Paris… is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.” – Edmund White

”Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.” – Michael Simkins

“The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music… it is worth anyone’s while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.” – James Thurber

“That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.” – quote from the movie “Midnight in Paris”

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Here’s the essence of Thailand in a few heart-warming, honest quotes that explain why foreigners adore this country in Southeast Asia.

1. In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They’re not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to know them, and the more time I spent with them, the more I understood that this was a totally legitimate attitude to life, and why not? – John Burdett

2. Bangkok, like Las Vegas, sounds like a place where you make bad decisions. – Todd Phillips

3. How I love Bangkok! It’s so teeming with everything that should be forbidden. I’m not just talking about the sex trade. I also mean the ways of driving, the ways of putting up buildings, environmental management arrangements, the continual attention of con artists and snatch-thieves, and the quaint local custom of peeing in side-streets. – John Dolan

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4. Bangkok is also safe. If you see anybody wearing camouflage holding a machete, don’t be scared. They sell coconuts. – Bobby Lee

5. Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world. – John Burdett

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6. I landed in 1980 in Bangkok, and I stopped to eat ten times between the airport and the hotel. It was all lemongrass and ginger and chilies. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten

7. Bangkok, though, is a rejuvenating tonic; the people seem to have found the magic elixir. Life, a visitor feels, has not been wasted on the Thais. – Bernard Kalb 

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#1 You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. – Anthony Bourdain

#2 We crossed spacious streets, with building resembling palaces, in La Rambla promenade ; the shops were well illuminated and there was movement and life… I did not decide to go to sleep, even though I wished to, so I could rise early and contemplate, in daylight, this city, unknown to me: Barcelona, capital of Catalonia. – Hans Christian Andersen

#3 I went to have a look at the cathedral, a modern cathedral, and one of the most hideous buildings in the world. – George Orwell (written in 1938)

#4 Barcelona, archives of courtesy, shelter of the foreigners, hospital of the poor, father-land of  the brave , vengeance of the offended and pleasant correspondence of firm friendship, and in site, and in beauty, unique. – Miguel de Cervantes

#5 The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it’s a woman who’s extremely vain. – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6 Such a beautiful horizon, like a jewel in the sun , for you a will be a seagle of your beautiful ocean . The bells are ringing, open up your doors to the world. – a quote from the song “Barcelona”, a hymn of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

#7 In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it’s traditionally the least Spanish city, but you’d never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist – as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral when it comes to overseas visitors. – Julie Burchill

#8 Here in Barcelona, it’s the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration – not a bunch of half-witted monarchs. – Julie Burchill

#9 I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. – Colm Tóibín

#10 Allow me to state here how much I love Barcelona , an admirable city, a city full of life, intense, a port open to the past and future. – Le Corbusier

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Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward. – Drew Houston

Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul. – Jaime Lyn

Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be. – Steve Pavlina

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

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure. – Roy T. Bennett

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand… Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit. – Jacqueline Cochran

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self… And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one’s self. – Soren Kierkegaard

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Jon Krakauer

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. – Roy T.Bennett

Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life. – John Amatt

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. – Ray Bradbury

Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience. – Jon Krakauer

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andre Gide

So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. – Edward Abbey

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see. – Angelina Jolie

My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. – Brian Blessed

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. – Nev Schulman

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1. It isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your shoe. – Robert W. Service

2. Pissing through 6 inches of clothes with a 3-inch penis! – words by an Everest climber when asked what was the hardest thing about climbing Everest

3. When preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart. – Dan May

4. Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet. – Brooke Hampton

5. I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest — it’s only a mountain. – Junko Tabei, first woman to climb Everest

6. One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon. – Don Whillans

7. Great things are done when men and mountains meet; this is not done by jostling in the street. – William Blake

8. Let’s not mince words: Everest doesn’t attract a whole lot of well-balanced folks. The self-selection process tends to weed out the cautious and the sensible in favor of those who are single-minded and incredibly driven. Which is a big reason the mountain is so dangerous. – Jon Krakauer

9. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.  – Ed Viesturs

10. He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. ― Friedrich Neitszche

11. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. – T.S. Eliot

12. Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing. ― Barry Finlay

13. Mountains teach that not everything in this world can be rationally explained. – Aleksander Lwow

14. For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. – Sonam Kapoor

15. I like the mountains because they make me feel small,’ Jeff says. ‘They help me sort out what’s important in life.”
― Mark Obmascik

16. May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – Edward Abbey

17. Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life. – Werner Herzog

18. I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don’t think of anything but the people I care about and the view. – Julian Lennon

19. I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures. – Conny Cernik

20. Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. – John Muir

21. In the mountains there are only two grades: You can either do it, or you can’t. – Rusty Baille

22. Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion. – Anatoli Boukreev

23. The mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist. – Rabindranath Tagore

24. There’s a world out there, and you’ve got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime. – Bill Janklow

25. Within a month of intense life in the mountains is going through so much, what used to be a period of several years; this is a occupancy for people greedy for life – human life is not enough. – Jerzy Kukuczka

26. You never climb the same mountain twice, not even in memory. Memory rebuilds the mountain, changes the weather, retells the jokes, remakes all the moves. – Lito Tejada-Flores

27. It’s not the Mountain we conquer, but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

28. Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence. – Hermann Buhl

29. I’ve realised that at the top of the mountain, there’s another mountain. – Andrew Garfield 

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People don’t live in Los Angeles because we are tied to the same old, same old. We live in Los Angeles because of the intoxicating energy of new beginnings that permeate our city. – Marianne Williamson

I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days. – Billy Connolly

It’s mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they’ll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren’t even young and beautiful now. – Christopher Hitchens

In Los Angeles, you can have the city life and feel like you’re on holiday at the same time. – Isabel Marant

Los Angeles has no seasons, so it’s kind of hard to keep track of time here. The lines between spring, summer, fall, and winter all blur like my vision. I get stuck on repeat for different measures of eternity. – Kris Kidd

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it. – Miranda Richardson

When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn’t get looked at as God, you freak. – Jennifer Love Hewitt

Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe. – Emily Mortimer

So I live in Los Angeles, and it’s kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence. – George Carlin

I’m attracted to creative people and train wrecks, and there’s no shortage of that in Los Angeles. – Pete Wentz

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They’re beautiful. Everybody’s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic. – Andy Warhol

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Las Vegas looks the way you would imagine heaven must look at night. – Chuck Palahniuk

If you know how to live in Vegas you can have the best time. – Tony Curtis

Everything and anything you want to do – you can do it in Las Vegas. – Drew Carey

While I was busy hating Vegas and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas. – J. R. Moehringer

Las Vegas, Nevada: a city where oddities don’t make you lame, but instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. – Walter Wykes

Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification. – Joan Didion

Las Vegas is a city built on hopes, dreams, and a little bit of crazy. – Michael Mcdonald

If you aim to leave Las Vegas with a small fortune, go there with a large one. – Unknown author

Contemporary Las Vegas is astonishing. At night, it is a brilliant cluster of jewels of all shapes, sizes, and colors, glowing in the middle of a vast, black velvet canopy. By day, it is also an amazing sight, almost like a mirage. There is nothing but desert and rugged mountains all around, and then- in the middle of it all – one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the United States… truly an enigma. – Thomas  Taj  Ainlay

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks – it says Goodbye. – Frank Sinatra

Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. – Hunter S. Thompson

Las Vegas is sort of like how God would do it if he had money. – Steve Wynn

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment. – Don Rickles

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness, and sadness all at the same time. – Artie Lange

No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend. – Hal Rothman

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