I have searched the web, and have found these incredibly profound travel quotes, written by some of the brightest writers, philosophers, poets, travelers, and dreamers. We cannot travel physically, but our minds have no bounderies. Dream on.
Enjoy!
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
― Mark Twain
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton
“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
“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
― mary anne radmacher
“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan
“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
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
― James A. Michener
“The journey itself is my home.”
― Matsuo Basho
“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”
― Anthony Bourdain
“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami
“The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page.”
― St Augustine
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry”
― Jack Kerouac
“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
― Erma Bombeck
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
― Charles Bukowski
“The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you’re not a traveler. You’re a f@@king tourist.”
― Guillermo del Toro
“There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.”
― Robert Benchley
“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper
“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.”
― Thornton Wilder
“There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
― Kate Douglas Wiggin
“The best traveler is one without a camera.”
― Kamand Kojouri
“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
“It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”
― Aaron Lauritsen
“No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
I really hope that these travel quotes have inspired you to start planning a new adventure! Never stop traveling, never stop dreaming!
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