Travel Blog

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

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

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” — Aldous Huxley

“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

“Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” — Lily Leung

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill

“The border means more than a customs house, a passport officer, a man with a gun. Over there everything is going to be different; life is never going to be quite the same again after your passport has been stamped.” – Graham Greene

“Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — Andre Gide

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” — Glenn Clark

“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” — Amelia E. Barr

“You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” — Daranna Gidel

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Travel is like a giant blank canvas, and the painting on the canvas is only limited by one’s imagination.” — Ross Morley

“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”— Gustave Flaubert

“The further one goes, the less one knows.” — Lao-Tzu

“To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” — Danny Kaye

“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” — Edith Wharton

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

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – William G.T. Shedd

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

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

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“People don’t take trips . . . trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place….” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.” – Sargent Shriver

“People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” – Martin Yan

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” – Andre Gide

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart

“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” – Richard Burton

“Certainly, 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

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

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark

“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“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.” – Jawaharal Nehru

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

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

“The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere” – Geoff Dyer, Paris Trance

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