Quotes

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” — Alan Keightley

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” — Albert Einstein

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley

“The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski

“One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“It is solved by walking.” — Algerian proverb

“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” — Amelia E. Barr

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” — Anatole France

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” — André Gide

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” — Anita Septimus

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” — Anne Sophie Swetchine

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.” — Blaise Pascal

“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveller on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home.” — Carl Burns

“A wise traveller never despises his own country.” — Carlo Goldoni

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” — Caskie Stinnett

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” — Cesare Pavese

“One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” — Charles Dickens

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” — Charles Dudley Warner

“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” — Charles Horton Cooley

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” — Clifton Fadiman

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” — Dagobert D. Runes

“You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel

“I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.” — David Attenborough

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” — Dutch Proverb

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” — Elizabeth Drew

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” — Ella Maillart

“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.” — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” — Fitzhugh Mullan

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” — Francis Bacon

“Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” — Frank Herbert

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” — Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” — G. K. Chesterton

“The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” — G. K. Chesterton

“Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” — Gayle Forman

“I dislike feeling at home when I’m abroad.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.” — George Eliot

“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Henry David Thoreau

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” — Herman Melville

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc

“An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.” — Iain Sinclair

“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” — Jack Kerouac

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener

“You don’t really conquer a mountain. You conquer yourself. You overcome sickness and everything else – your pains, aches, fear - to reach the summit.” — James Whittaker

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.” — John Muir

“People don’t take trips – trips take people.” — John Steinbeck

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” — John Steinbeck

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” — Lao Tzu

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” — Lillian Smith

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” — Lin Yutang

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.” — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“Too often… I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” — Louis L’Amour

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.” — Ma Jian

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” — Mark Twain

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” — Martin Buber

“People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” — Martin Yan

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Miriam Beard

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” — Moorish proverb

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Saadi

“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.” — Orson Welles

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” — Oscar Wilde

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” — Oscar Wilde

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” — Pat Conroy

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” — Paul Theroux

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux

“To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.” — Philip Andrew Adams

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” — Ray Bradbury

“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” — Ray Bradbury

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one less traveled by.” — Robert Frost

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.” — Robert Thomas Allen

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia de Castro

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” — Roy Goodman

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” — Rudyard Kipling

“When you’re travelling, ask the traveller for advice
not someone whose lameness keeps him in one place.” — Rumi

“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere
When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.” — Rumi

“To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.” — Sam Keen

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” — Samuel Johnson

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” — Samuel Johnson

“It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.” — Selma Lagerlöf

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” — Seneca

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” — St. Augustine

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag

“The journey not the arrival matters.” — T. S. Eliot

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T. S. Eliot

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — The Dhammapada

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

“Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” — Unknown

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Unknown

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” — Unknown

“I would rather own a little and see the world, than own the world and see a little of it.” — Unknown

“Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” — Unknown

“We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.” — Unknown

“Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” — Unknown

“It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.” — Unknown

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Unknown

“Not I, not anyone else, can travel that road for you, you must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman

“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.” — William Blake

“I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.” — William Hazlitt

“The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.” — William Least Heat Moon

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place….” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” — Walt Disney

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill

“Live your list.” — Unknown

“Travel is the best education.” — Unknown

“What we all want in life: to travel, fall in love, and be happy.” — Unknown

“Where next?” — Unknown

“Take risks. If you win, you will be happy. If you lose, you will be wise.” — Unknown

“It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.” — Unknown

“I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding – I’m on the road to the airport.” — Unknown

“Travel is the healthiest addiction.” — Unknown

“When something good happens, travel to celebrate. If something bad happens, travel to forget it. If nothing happens, travel to make something happen.” — Unknown

““I regret spending money on that epic, life-changing trip,” said no one ever.” — Unknown

“That moment you realise life is too short to spend it wondering about all the things you didn’t do.” — Unknown

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” — Unknown

“Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.” — Unknown

“I don’t run to win races. Nor do I run to get places. I run to escape this world. I run to find peace with myself. I run to feel free. And I run to feel strong.” — Unknown

“Pain is weakness leaving the body.” — Unknown

“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.” — Unknown

“When you are truly comfortable with who you are, not everybody will like you. But you won’t care about it one bit.” — Unknown

“Quit your job and go backpacking.” — Unknown

“Sometimes you need to step outside, get some air, and remind yourself of who you are and who you want to be.” — Unknown

“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start being excited about what could go right.” — Unknown

“Set a goal so big you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.” — Unknown

“Take vacations. Go as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can’t always make memories.” — Unknown

“If there’s even a slight chance at getting something that will make you happy, risk it. Life’s too short, and happiness is too rare.” — A. R. Lucas

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.” — Maya Mendoza

“Get ready for a year of memories. Somewhere…” — Your passport

“Most people have a list of New Year’s resolutions. I just have a map of the world.” — Unknown

“Exercise is the most potent and underutilised antidepressant, and it’s free.” — Unknown

“Explore the world.” — Unknown

“Do it now. “Later” becomes “never”.” — Unknown

“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” — Unknown

“If running were easy, everybody would do it. Guess what? They don’t. You do.” — Unknown

“Invest in yourself first. Expect nothing from no one and be willing to work for everything.” — Tony Gaskins

“Work tip: stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.” — Unknown

“The mountains are calling and I must go.” — John Muir

“The world awaits.” — Unknown

“Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best.” — Unknown

“One of the truest signs of maturity is the ability to disagree with someone while still remaining respectful.” — Dave Willis

“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” — Unknown

“You’ve got to take some risks in life to find out what you’re really capable of.” — Unknown

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” — Unknown

“If it excites you and scares you at the same time, it probably means you should do it.” — Unknown

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” — Unknown

“Some people get homesick when they travel. I just get sick of home when I return.” — Unknown

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” — Maya Angelou

“No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they had plenty of sleep. Go adventure.” — Unknown

“Ambitious people chase opportunity. They don’t wait for opportunity. Get. Going.” — Eryn Samuels

“If you could pack up right now and leave, where would you go?” — Unknown

“Not all classrooms have four walls.” — Unknown

“My ability to conquer my challenges is limitless; my potential to succeed is infinite.” — Unknown

“Remember: adventures are way better than clothes.” — Unknown

“Five things I like almost as much as travelling: thinking about travelling, talking about travelling, watching TV shows about travelling, reading about travelling… and coffee.” — Unknown

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or cutting your grass. Climb that goddamn mountain.” — Unknown

“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, and use nothing but time.” — Unknown

“You’re never going to go if you wait for someone to come with you.” — Nomadic Matt

“Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho

“Just go. Go see all the beauty in the world.” — Unknown

“Life gives every person two choices: sit, sulk and dwell on how unfair life is, or figure out how to make the bad situation work in your favour.” — Unknown

“Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” — Unknown

“Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” — Unknown

“Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.” — Unknown

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

“The world is going to judge you no matter what you do, so live your life the way you want to.” — Unknown

“Surround yourself with people that will inspire you to do more.” — Unknown

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” — Unknown

“Don’t feel bad for making decisions that upset other people. You’re not responsible for their happiness, you’re responsible for yours.” — Unknown

“Don’t say “that looks amazing”… say “yes, it was!”” — Unknown

“Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.” — Unknown

“One day you’ll feel an overwhelming need for change, and that’s when you know you’ve outgrown somewhere. Don’t be afraid to move on to a new place that serves your soul.” — Unknown

“Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.” — Unknown

“I want to make memories all over the world.” — Unknown

“Make yourself a priority once in a while. It’s not selfish. It’s necessary.” — Unknown

“One life. Live it.” — Unknown

“I travel because I’d rather look back at life saying “I can’t believe I did that” instead of “if only I had.”” — Unknown

“One day you’ll wake up and have no more time… so go do the things you want to do now. Live your life!” — Unknown

“You are running out of time to see the world.” — Unknown

“I followed my heart and it led me to the airport.” — Unknown

“Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” — Unknown

“I want to drop everything and just travel the world with someone who wants to just as much as I do.” — Unknown

“It’s hard to pick a place to go when you want to travel everywhere.” — Unknown

“Travel is my therapy.” — Unknown

“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.” — Reinhold Messner

“If at some point in your travels you’re not lost, scared or wondering why you left the comforts of home, you’re not doing it right.” — Unknown

“It’s not about being unafraid. It’s about being afraid and doing it anyway.” — Unknown

“Everything will kill you, so choose something fun.” — Unknown

“To those that jump, no explanation is necessary. To those that don’t, no explanation is possible.” — Unknown

“We only live once? Wrong. We only die once. We live every day.” — Unknown

“If it makes you happy, no one else’s opinion should matter.” — Unknown

“Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.” — Rolf Potts

“Measure life by countries, not years.” — Unknown

“A grand adventure is about to begin.” — Winnie the Pooh

“Collect moments, not things.” — Unknown

“Sometimes you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. Just to figure things out.” — Unknown

“At any point in your life you can walk away, fly away, drive away. You can completely change your life in an instant. If you want to.” — Unknown

“The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa, for he has so much to look forward to.” — Richard Mullin

“It’s your life. Don’t let anyone make you feel guilty for living it your way.” — Unknown

“People say Disneyland is the happiest place on earth. They are wrong. Out here in the mountains is.” — Unknown

“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.” — Unknown

“Nobody’s perfect. We make mistakes. We say wrong things. We fall. We get up. We learn. We grow. We move on. We live.” — Unknown

“There are two ways to be happy: change the situation, or change your mindset towards it.” — Unknown

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” — Randy Komisar