Travel Quotes

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travelers don't know where they're going.
~ Paul Theroux ~

Not all who wander are lost.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien ~

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
~ Agnes Repplier ~

If you do nothing unexpected,
nothing unexpected happens.
~ Fay Weldon ~

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain ~

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo ~

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
~ Helen Keller ~

Whatever you can do,
or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.
~ Goethe ~

Bear in mind that the special advantage of vagabonding is the experience of not really knowing what happens next, which you can obtain at bargain rates in all cases....The challenges you face offer no alternative but to cope with them. And in doing that, your life is being fully lived.
~ Ed Buryn ~

Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am....Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.
~ Travels - Michael Crichton ~

The "danger" of vagabonding resides in having your eyes opened - in discovering the world as it really is.
~ Vagabonding in Europe and North Africa - Ed Buryn ~

People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive.
~ The Power of Myth - Joseph Campbell ~

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

We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it is making the effort to interact without knowing all the rules, improvising certain situations, which allows us to grow.
~ Peripheral Visions - Mary Catherine Bateson ~

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure,
than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer too much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt ~

The true traveler is without goal. It is the absence of goals which creates the ultimate traveler.

We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope, and hope does not disappoint us.

Most people don't see the world as it is.....they see it as they are.

No accomplishment is as satisfying as one that contained doubt.
And no courage is as great as one that included fear.