“The alternative to binge travel—the mini-retirement —entails relocating to one place for one to six months before going home or moving to another locale. It is the anti-vacation in the most positive sense. Though it can be relaxing, the mini-retirement is not an escape from your life but a reexamination of it—the creation of a blank slate.”
Tim Ferriss
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
Seth Godin
“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
Ernest Hemingway
“Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?”
Zig Ziglar
“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.”
William James
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
Leo Tolstoy
“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
Seneca
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
Maya Angelou
“Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
St. Augustine
“Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.”
Mark Twain
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
Mark Twain
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”
Paulo Coelho
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