Quotes
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~Mark Twain
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. ~William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
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
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ~Ray Bradbury
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
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
I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. ~Hilaire Belloc
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. ~Benjamin Disraeli
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
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Travelling 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
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. ~Susan Heller
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. ~Paul Fussell
A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. ~Katharine Butler Hathaway
There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. ~Charles Dudley Warner
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson