365 awesome travel quotes for a year full of wanderlust

Don't you just love a good quote? Especially, when they're about travel. Awesome travel quotes can really motivate you and inspire you to chase your dreams.

Unfortunately, when it comes to travel quotes, I always kept bumping into the same ones. I swear, if I have someone tell me one more time that not all those who wander are lost, I'm going to need more than a cup of tea to regain my calm.

But you can't whine if you don't take action, right? So I went in search of the 100 best travel quotes out there to help you stay motivated on your adventures, eager to keep on exploring and grateful for all the opportunities out there.

Not enough time to go through them all? This video shows you some of the best:

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365 awesome travel quotes

1. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your Balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

3. “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

4. “One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.” – André Gide, The Counterfeiters

5. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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

6. “Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature’s darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” – John Muir, John Muir. His life letters and other writings

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

8. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

9. “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

10. “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

11. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

12. “The bold adventurer succeeds the best.” – Ovid, Metamorphoses

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost, Mountain Interval

14. “Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.” – Tom Robbins, Still life with woodpecker

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

16. “We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.” – Henry David Thoreau

17. “Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.” – Robin Leach

18. “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

19. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu, The way of Lao Tzu

20. “The journey itself is my home.” – Matsuo Bashō

21. “Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.” – Deborah Cater, City chronicles

22. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde, The importance of being ernest

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

24. “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

25. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

26. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller, The story of my life

27. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton, The temple of silence & other stories

28. “Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

29. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

30. “A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – Wilfred Peterson

31. “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, Realism in romantic Japan

32. “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.” – Jason Mraz

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

34. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gidé

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

36. “He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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

38. “Definition of ‘adventure': extreme circumstances recalled in tranquility.” – Jules the Kiwi

39. “Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

40. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.” – Claire Fontaine, Comeback

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

42. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

43. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd, Salt from my attic

44. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

45. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” – Fitzhugh Mullan

46. “We will not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” – T.S. Elliot

47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

48. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

49. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling – though careful research leads this quote back to T.S. Eliot

50. “Walking 10 thousand miles of world is better than reading 10 thousand scrolls of books.” — Chinese Proverb

51. “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

52. “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” — Nelson Mandela

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

54. “You might be poor on money, but rich on life.” – Kasper Raunholst

55. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

56. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon, >Blue highways. A journey into America

57. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

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

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

60. “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

61. “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

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

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

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

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

66. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – anonymous

67. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Sir Francis Bacon

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

69. “My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.” – Diana Ross

70. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin, The diary of Anais Nin

72. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

73. “Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.” – Antonio Machado

74. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

75. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

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

77. “Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – Ella Maillart

78. “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.” – G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

79. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” — Sandra Lake

80. “You may not find a path, but you will find a way.” – Tom Wolfe

81. “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

82. “Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.” – Milton Glaser

83. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

84. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes

85. “The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” ― Rosita Forbes

86. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

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

88. “The journey is my home.” — Muriel Rukeyser

89. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

90. “To travel is to possess the world.” – Burton Holmes

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

92. “Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you'll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you're away…One's little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.” – Gail Rubin Bereny

93. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

94. “One of the gladdest moments of human life, me thinks, 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.” – Sir Richard Burton

95. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

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

97. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado squatters

98. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson, To hellholes and back

99. “Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Mohammed

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

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

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

103. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

104. “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

105. “Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.” – Will Rogers

106. “There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the road

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

108. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

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

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

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

112. “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

113. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

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

115. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battutah, The travels of Ibn Battutah

116. “Admire beauty” ― Josephwedler

117. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

118. “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

119. “And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Lyer

120. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

121. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck, Travels with Charlie in search of America

122. “Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.” – Winna Efendi

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

124. “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.” – Christopher McCandless

125. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen, The fairy tale of my life

126. “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.” – Roman Payne, The Wanderess

127. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang, The importance of living

128. “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” – Pascal Mercier

129. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill, Jaguars ripped my flesh

130. “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

131. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin, Around the world in 80 days

132. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

133. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

134. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut

135. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

136. “I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

137. “I'm in love with countries I've never been to and fascinated by people I've never met.” – Paul Edwards

138. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

139. “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

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

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

142. “Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – JRR Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

143. “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci

144. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

145. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau, >Walden or Life if the woods

146. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

147. “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

148. “You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t choose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

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

150. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins

151. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust, In search of lost time

152. “Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.” – Chinese Proverb

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

154. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

155. “If you can’t live longer, live deeper.” – Italian Proverb

156. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

157. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.” – Kate Douglas Wiggin

158. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber, The legend of Baal-Shem

159. “Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.” – Michael Mewshaw

160. “To shut your eyes is to travel.” ― Emily Dickinson

161. “Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!” – Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love

162. “The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – Rolf Potts

163. “For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite, and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.” — Alex Garland, The Beach

164. “I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” – Charles Bukowski

165. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou

166. “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

167. “One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.” – Jimmy Buffett, A pirate looks at fifty

168. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” — Gayle Forman

169. “Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.” – Saadi

170. “Don’t ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.” – Lavinia Spalding

171. “…life is short and the world is wide.” — Simon Raven

172. “But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – Bill Bryan

173. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

174. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” — Edward Abbey, Desert solitaire

175. “Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.” – Vera Nazarian

176. “Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes — with all this taken away, 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, bit it is always invigorating.” — Michael Crichton

177. “I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” — Cheryl Strayed, Wild

178. “Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.” – Tahir Shah

179. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” — Mother Teresa

180. “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” — Nora Roberts

181. “… adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.” – Josh Gates, Destination truth

182. “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi

183. “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the unforgettable thread of wasted time.” — Donald Miller, A million miles in a thousand years

184. “The best way to know a city is to eat it.” – Scott Westerfeld, Afterworlds

185. “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.” – Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and beyond. A life-changing journey

186. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” — Margot Fonteyn

187. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict

188. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather

189. “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, Fahrenheit 451

190. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told.” – Alan Keightley, The gates of Janus

191. “I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

192. “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer Lee

193. “It is better to travel than to arrive.” – Buddha

194. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Uzbek proberb

195. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

196. “Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous

197. “It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” – W. Somerset Maugham

198. “All you need to know is that it’s possible.” – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

199. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

200. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

201. “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

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

203. “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.” – Paul Fussell

204. “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.” – Aldous Huxley

205. “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.” – D. H. Lawrence

206. “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.” – Freya Stark

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

208. “How safe do we want to be? How much of ourselves are we willing to give up for it?” – Sarah Hepola

209. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

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

211. “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” – Carl Sandburg

212. “There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, ‘Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.’ Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there.” – Emma Bombeck

213. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

214. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss

215. “The farther I travel, the closer I am to myself.” –Andrew McCarthy

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

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

218. “Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” – John Steinbeck.

219. “The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.” – Henry Boye

220. “Uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” – Ken Hundert

221. “Borders…? I have never seen one… But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people…” – Thor Heyerdahl

222. “Heroes takes journeys, confront dragons, and discovers the treasure of their true selves.” – Carol Pearson

223. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish proverb

224. “As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story.” – John Green

225. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

226. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

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

228. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” — Erol Ozan

229. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

230. “By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.” — Tawny Lara

231. “Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

232. “Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” — Shane Koyczan

233. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” — J.K. Rowling

234. “Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” — Diana Ambarsari

235. “Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” — Debasish Mridha

236. “Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.” — Gustave Flaubert

237. “Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.” — Katie Grissom

238. “Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” — Susan Magsamen

239. “The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.” — Bruce Chitin

240. “I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.” — Carew Papritz

241. “I tramp a perpetual journey.” — Walt Whitman

242. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” — Grace Lichtenstein

243. “Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.” — Ken Poirot

244. “When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” — William Least Heat-Moon

245. “By traveling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever-changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.” — Andrew James Pritchard

246. “You can travel the world but if you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.” — Gerald Freeman

247. “You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.” — Sue Fitzmaurice

248. “How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?” — Socrates

249. “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.” – Katharine Butler Hathaway

250. “Two great talkers will not travel far together.” – Spanish Proverb

251. “It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.” — Anatole France

252. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson

253. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone

254. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.” — Carew Papritz

255. “You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.” — Paul Theroux

256. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” — Alain de Botton

257. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin

258. “I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.” — Christopher Fry

259. “There ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” — David Mitchell

260. “Wanderlust is like itchy feet. It’s when you can’t settle down. But Wanderlove is much deeper than that…it’s a compulsion. It’s the difference between lust and love.” — Kirsten Hubbard

261. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” — Emma Chase

262. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” — Paolo Coehlo

263. “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” — Jack Kerouac

264. “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

265. “I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.” — Charles Finch

266. “The road never ends…only our vision does.” — Amit Reddy

267. “The best tourist is one without a camera.” — Kamand Kojouri

268. “Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere.” — Orhan Pamuk

269. “You have to taste a culture to understand it.” — Deborah Cater

270. “There are no tips for life neither for travelling.” — Guido Colombo

271. “Everybody has a unique path to travel.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

272. “Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” — Janna Graber

273. “See it, learn it, do it ALL.” — Jamie McCall

274. “The Wanderlust has got me…by the belly-aching fire.” — Robert W. Service

275. “Wander, and leave a trail of freedom wherever you go.” — Marty Rubin

276. “Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.” — Alain de Botton

277. “I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It’s as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.” — Christopher Hitchens

278. “One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one’s life.” — Evelyn Waugh

279. “Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we’re stressed, just a little.” — Jane Wilson-Howarth

280. “You have not traveled enough,” she said. “Or you'd know that every journey
makes its own map across your heart.” ― Sharon Shinn, Mystic and Rider

281. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” — Nancy Petralia

282. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” — Marty Rubin

283. “There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.” — Colum McCann

284. “Ownership of most things is overrated. Ownership of worldly experience is not.” — Dave Levant

285. “Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations.” — Eugene Linden

286. “The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” — Rick Ridgeway

287. “To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” — T.L Rese

288. “Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” — C. JoyBell C.

289. “For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that—try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn’t the right country for you—just won’t leave you in peace.” — Eric Weiner

290. “Do you think it’s so snobbish, to want to see something besides one’s fellow citizens abroad?” — Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis

291. “People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” – St. Augustine

292. “They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.” — Horace

293. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” — Carew Papritz

294. “Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” — Libya Bray

295. “Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they … return home with travelled bodies, but untravelled minds.” – Charles Caleb Colton

296. “If you travel, it must be to seek difference.” – Kathleen Lee

297. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

298. “You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.” – Yogi Berra

299. “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.” – Frantz Fanon

300. “Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – Emile Zola

301. “Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.” – Amin Maalouf

302. “Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

303. “The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.” – Charles Kuralt

304. “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman

305. “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, A Hat Full of Sky

306. “I read; I travel; I become” ― Derek Walcott

307. “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

308. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

309. “Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” ― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

310. “Every hundred feet the world changes.” ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

311. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.” ― Anderson Cooper

312. “I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.” ― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

313. “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.” ― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

314. “A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims

315. “You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.” ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove

316. “But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.” ― Gwyn Thomas

317. “Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

318. “Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.” ― Elias Canetti, The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

319. “Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” ― Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World

320. “I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.” ― Norman Lewis

321. “I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb…” ― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

322. “I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.” ― Shaun Hick

323. “Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.” ― Albert Camus

324. “I travel, always arriving in the same place.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape

325. “A book is the cheapest ticket you will ever hold.” ― Stefanos Livos

326. “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.” ― Jodi Picoult

327. “Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice.” ― Pico Iyer

328. “Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target.” ― Robert Thier, Storm and Silence

329. “That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

330. “You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.” ― Colin Wright, My Exile Lifestyle

331. “Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.” ― Rashedur Ryan Rahman

332. “A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation.” ― Tahir Shah, Sorcerer's Apprentice

333. “She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.” ― Jodi Hills

334. “Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant facto.” ― Israelmore Ayivor

335. “Adventure rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.” ― Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

336. “Travel moulds a man, people mould his wisdom and experiences mould his life!” ― Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!

337. “I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable.” ― Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the Sea

338. “If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.” ― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

339. “Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.” ― Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life

340. “To create abundance in life, travel and touch everyone you meet with your infinite love.” ― Debasish Mridha

341. “It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.” ― Paul Howard, Vagrants in Paradise: a travel-humor essay

342. “Loveyoubye.” ― Jen Malone, Wanderlost

343. “Travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet's blurred reality.” ― Andrew Solomon, Far & Away: Places on the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years

344. “For of this world one never sees enough and to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do.” ― James A. Michener, Iberia

345. “No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.” ― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The Haunted Baronet And Others: Ghost Stories 1861-70

346. “The true adventurer sees his glass as half full even when there are things swimming in it.” ― Randy Ross, God Bless Cambodia

347. “The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

348. “Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.” ― Michael John Carley, Asperger's From the Inside Out: A Supportive and Practical Guide for Anyone with Asperger's Syndrome

349. “But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route.” ― Robert Edison Fulton Jr., One Man Caravan

350. “I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.” ― Gloria Steinem

351. “Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.” ― Kiara Maharaj

352. “I suppose that every wanderer started in a garden somewhere. So few of us are born into motion.” ― Candas Jane Dorsey, Black Wine

353. “Where the fog is thickest, begin.” ― Marty Rubin

354. “To reduce your age,increase your experiences.” ― Subbu Peteti, Anti-Aging Secrets on the Highway

355. “When coming back, we may notice we have changed because others haven’t.” ― Lauren Klarfeld

356. “And I keep wandering in search of a nothingness…” ― Avijeet Das

357. “Perhaps it is the setting; rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.” ― Rita Golden Gelman, Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World

358. “Those who travel outward seek completeness in things; those who gaze inward find sufficiency in themselves.” ― Liezi, The Book of Master Lie

359. “We take to the breeze, we go as we please.” ― E.B. White, Charlotte's Web

360. “A girl who travels has learned how to dance barefoot. She’s learned to place her toes in the sand and dance through rhythm, not through rehearsed footwork. She’s learned to follow what she likes, not what she needs to like.” ― lauren klarfeld

361. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting' our inner-self.” ― Sorrab Singha

362. “For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero

363. “What we glean from travelers' vivid descriptions has a special charm; whatever is far off and suggestive excites our imagination; such pleasures tempt us far more than anything we may daily experience in the narrow circle of sedentary life.” ― Alexander von Humboldt

364. “What matter it how far we go?” his scaly friend replied. “There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.” ― Lewis Carroll

365. “The map? I will first make it.” ― Patrick White, Voss
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