Since I’m the ultimate travel junkie, waiting for my next big trip is always hard. I usually bide the time reading about destinations, looking at beautiful photos, and reading inspiring travel quotes. Here are 20 of my all-time favorites (I even throw in a bonus for good measure). I hope they inspire you to plan that next big trip and see more of the world. Enjoy!
1. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
2. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
3. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
4. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” Charles Dudley Warner
5. “Once a year, go some place you’ve never been before.” Dalai Lama
6. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
7. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
8. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
9. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw
10. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
11. “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
12. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
13. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron
14. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese
15. “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
16. “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
17. “There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!” – Brähmann
18. “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton
19. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
20. “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
BONUS: “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
Which travel quote is your favorite? Why? Leave your comment below
