Travels - Quotes

A wise man travels to discover himself. - James Russell Lowell

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? - Richard Aldington

Adventurous travel is like a virus for many people ... Once they've been to some far-away destination completely on their own ... it's often as if a switch has been flipped. They've caught the travel bug, and from that moment on they are constantly thinking about their next trip. - Barry Kooijmans

For many people, foreign travel can be transformational, changing how we think of our lives and our world. When we spend time in different cultures, everything is new and fascinating. We start living in the present, because the present is so intriguing. We feel revitalized. Because you let go of what is familiar and routine for you, your inner mind is inclined to take a fresh look at your life – how you feel about what's going on and what direction you want to go next. - Linda Breen Pierce

He travels the fastest who travels alone. - Rudyard Kipling

He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them. - Kirby Larson

It is better to travel well than to arrive. - The Buddha

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

Modern travel is like fast food: short, sharp incursions that do not weave a spell. In our age, tourism has made the planet into a uniform spectacle, and it has made us perpetual strangers wandering through an imitation of an imitation of a place we once wanted to go. - Lawrence Osborne

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves. - Christian Nestell Bovee

No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell. - Jewish Proverb

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

Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling. It takes all to inform and educate all. Sallies forth from our cramped firesides into other homes, other hearts, are wonderfully wholesome and enlarging. Travel opens prospects on all sides, widens our horizon, liberates the mind from geographical and conventional limitations, from local prejudices and national, showing the globe in its differing climates, zones, and latitudes of intelligence. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. - St. Augustine

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. - Maya Angelou

Soulful travel is the art of finding beauty even in ruins. - Phil Cousineau

The gladdest moment in human life, me things, is a departure into unknown lands. - Sir Richard Burton

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds. - Charles Horton Cooley

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. - Henry David Thoreau

The only aspect of our travels that is interesting to others is disaster. - Martha Gellman

The real meaning of travel, like that of a conversation by the fireside, is the discovery of oneself through contact with other people, and its condition is self-commitment in the dialogue. - Dr. Paul Tournier

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Smauel Johnson

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. - Paul Theroux

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they ... return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds. - Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. - Aldous Huxley

To travel is to live. - Hans Christian Andersen

Travel brings power and love back into your life. - Rumi

Travel is a discovery of the world soul of which we are a part. - Thomas Moore

Travel is a means of conquering space and time. - Unknown

Travel is an attitude, a state of mind. It is not residence, it is motion. - Paul Theroux

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 is flight and pursuit in equal parts. - Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. - Paul Theroux

Travel is intensified living – maximum thrills per minute and one of the last great sources of legal adventure. Travel is freedom. It's recess, and we need it. - Rick Steves

Travel is like a game; there is always gain or loss, and mostly from the unexpected side; you receive more or less than you hope for; you can, with impunity, loiter along for a while, then you are again obliged to gather yourself up a moment. For natures like mine, that like to establish themselves firmly and hold fast to things, a journey is invaluable; it animates, instructs and cultivates. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Travel is like a university without walls. - Anita Roddick

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven't seen. - Mark Hertsgasaard

Travel is not the time to break in new shoes. - Lynne Christen

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert

Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. - Ibn Battuta

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. - Cesare Pavese

Travelling ten thousand miles will enrich you more than reading ten thousand pages. - Unknown

Travelling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. - Italo Calvino

Voyaging great distances – through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains – is all about finding ourselves. - Tim Lebbon

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. - Unknown

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. - Pico Iyer

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. - Anita Desai

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one. - Japanese Proverb

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 colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. - Terry Pratchett

You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. - Tanith Lee