Travel Quotes

Lailah Gifty Akita

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

Bobbi Kay

I write to get ideas out of my head

J.K. Rowling

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

Gina Greenlee

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

Donald L. Hicks

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

Jamie McCall

See it, learn it, do it ALL.

Pradeepa Pandiyan

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

Roman Payne

She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She
She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.

Roman Payne

You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in
You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.

Mark Twain

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like
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.

Simone De Beauvoir

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Roman Payne

I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.

Roman Payne

When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass.

Jenna Newton

If you do something that has never been done you will collect treasures that have never been found.

Sujit Lalwani

Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...!

Roman Payne

She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.

Roman Payne

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Ernest Shackleton

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth

E.A. Bucchianeri

It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance.

Israel Shenker

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

Tahir Shah

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Augustine Of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Leigh Ann Henion

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.

Roman Payne

To wander is to be alive.. Roman Payne
To wander is to be alive.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.

Roman Payne

Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.

Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me.

Jerril Thomas Abraham

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

Sanhita Baruah

I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also
I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.

Justina Chen

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

Carew Papritz

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .

Sara Sheridan

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

T.S. Eliot

So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.

Neil Gaiman

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

Vicki Alayne Bradley

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Paul Theroux

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Lavinia Spalding

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

Tawny Lara

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

Richard Halliburton

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.

Carsten Jensen

With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

DiDi Hendley

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Hans Cloos

It was during my enchanted days of travel that the idea came to me, which, through the years, has come into my thoughts again and again and always happily - the idea that geology is the music of the earth.

Terry Pratchett

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Steven J. Carroll

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

Jack Kerouac

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

Emma Donoghue

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Tahir Shah

Money spent on good-quality gear is always money well spent.

Wilkie Collins

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

Paul Pitchford

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.

Chris Pavone

Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Happily, we do the work.

J.F Hermann

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

Jodi Hills

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.

Travis J. Dahnke

Seeing pictures of other places around the world makes me feel more important. Reminds me, even though life is short, there's so much to do.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Wherever you travel to, there is your home.

Tyler Mcmahon

I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.

Jonathan Safran Foer

There are more places you haven't heard of then you're heard of!' I loved that

Pico Iyer

You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, "We have now landed in Lonely Place's Down-at-Heels Airport, where the local time is 1943 and the temperature is...frozen.

Barbara Magro

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

Douglas Adams

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

James A. Michener

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.. Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Hans Christian Andersen

To travel is to live.

Jack Kerouac

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

Pascal Mercier

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.

Hans Christian Andersen

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.

George Moore

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Audrey Niffenegger

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Banana Yoshimoto

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

Shane Koyczan

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Marcel Proust

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of
life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they
continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It
is as though they were traveling abroad.

Anaïs Nin

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

David Mitchell

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.. David Mitchell
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

David Mitchell

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.. David Mitchell
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Tennessee Williams

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Jim Hinckley

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Paul Theroux

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

Patrick Rothfuss

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.

Joe Abercrombie

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Lao Tzu

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.. Lao Tzu
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.

Sandra Lake

With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.

Amit Kalantri

Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to
Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Everything is old, here. We are old - the Masters."
"You're not," Irian said. She thought him between thirty and forty[...]
"But I came far. Miles can be years.

J. Maarten Troost

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

Richard Francis Burton

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Roman Payne

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.. Roman Payne
Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

Cara Bertoia

It's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.

Albina Hume

Live your dreams, not your fears! A.Hume

Leah Marie Brown

Veni, vidi, vici. That was easy for Julius Caesar to say; he crossed Italy in a chariot, not on a stupid bike." - Vivia

Virginia Woolf

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

Tahir Shah

Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

Peter Jenkins

It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.

Raquel Cepeda

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

Elizabeth George

God’s Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.

J.R. Rim

To pray is to communicate with the essence. Praying is calling home.

Charlotte Eriksson

Well, at least this is what I told myself every day as I fell asleep with the fire still burning and the moon shining high up in the sky and my head spinning comforting from two bottles of wine, and I smiled with tears in my eyes because it was beautiful and so god damn sad and I did not know how to be one of those without the other.

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