“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.”

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

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

“Life is a trip. If you travel, you live twice!“

“The best education I have ever received was through travel.”

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

“Is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

“Travelling is not something you’ re good at. It’s something you do.

Like Breathing”

“ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”

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

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching”

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

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live”

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

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

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

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

“Don’t just dream about it… Go out and do it!”

“I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”

“A Nomad is not homeless, just houseless!“

“There are two kind of people in this world… The ones busy living and the ones busy dying… The choice is yours…”

“Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee at other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home.”

“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

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

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

“I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little”

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”

“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 traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.”

“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”

“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.”

“You don’t need magic to disappear…   All you need is a destination.”

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.”

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

“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 realise that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”

“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.”

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

“Once you travelled, 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.”

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is not down in any map; true places never are…”

“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.”

“The best way to realise your dreams, it’s to wake up..”

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.”

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.”

“A life of travel is one you’ll never want to escape from.”

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

“Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.”

“A wise traveller never despises his own country.”