“Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.”

— Seneca quoting Socrates, Epistle XXVIII On Travel as a Cure for Discontent

So—traveling in and of itself will not change a person.

By the way, you’ll be seeing lots of quotes from Seneca for a while since I’ve been reading my way through his complete works. He’s probably my favorite of the ancient Stoics—with plenty of wisdom that’s applicable for our time.

“Why I came here I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire—in the midst of the myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?”

— George Gordon, Lord Byron

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language … has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.”

— Paul Tillich, German philosopher

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”

—Henry David Thoreau

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

— William Faulkner, from the play Requiem for a Nun