To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

because sometimes, to find home, you must first go farther afield.

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

A departure can feel like a desertion, a judgement on the place and people left behind.

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

Travel backward to a lost land heard of in childhood; find it to be incomprehensible, rich, strange; then discover it is the place from which you set out.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Go because you want to go. Because wanting to leave is enough.

Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.

Have you ever had that feeling — that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind. Thomas F. Hornbein

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.