My Favorite Travel Quotes (2)

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life and in change there is power." — Alan Cohen

"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go."  — Anthony Bourdain

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

"There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind." — C. S. Lewis

"I am never happier than when i am alone in a forreign city; it is as if I had become invisible." — Storm Jameson

"But I will never be satisfied until I am out in the world, fulfilling this empty desire I have growing inside me and learning in the most natural settings. When I say I want to travel, I’m saying I want to experience everything. Because experience is far more valuable than money will ever be." — Becca Martin

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” — Stephen King

“I choose to collect memories instead of things.” — Elena Levon

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” — Rachel Wolchin

“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” — Seth Godin

“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” — Mark Jenkins

“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 where riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more.” — Pico Iyer

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” — Eugene Fodor  

"And then I realized adventure are the best way to learn." — Unknown

"Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can't always make memories." — Unknown

"Travel is like a giant black canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one's imagination." — Ross Morley

“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton 

“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” — Anna Quindlen

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” — Samuel Johnson

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” — Clint Borgen

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” — James Michener

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark." — John Muir

"Don't call it a dream call it a plan." — Unknown

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." — Oscar Wilde

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." — Paulo Coelho

"Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show." — Unknpwn

 

A Piece of The Amazing "Into The Wild"

“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. 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.

If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

My Favorite Travel Quotes (1)

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been precisely those that my journeys had taught me.” - Paulo Coelho

“Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” - Unknown

“Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” - Unknown 

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson 

“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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain 

“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.” - Terry Pratchett 

  

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Mary Ritter Beard

“In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.” - Unknown

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson 

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” - Marcel Proust 

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” - Anthony Bourdain

“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” - John Green 

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald  

“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” - Randy Komisar

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” - Miriam Adeney

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” - Jack Kerouac 

“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 

“Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.” – Breaveheart 

“How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.” - Sarah Reijonen 

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” ― Henry David Thoreau 

“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” - Jack Kerouac 

“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 

“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.”  - Jawaharlal Nehru

“If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.” - Elizabeth Gilbert 

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” - Anthony Bourdain