Wise words from our favorite authors and philosophers often inspire us to take leaps in our lives, especially when it comes to travel. Who doesn’t want to have their own quote-worthy experience? Whether helping you to realize that it’s never too late to start your adventure, or to encourage you to be more accepting of other cultures, ideas, and outlooks, sometimes a sentence or two is all you need to help shed some light. We’ve taken a few well-known quotes that we’ve found to be especially eye opening and listed them below for those in need of a little travel inspiration!
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “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
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
- “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
- “Once you have 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.” – Pat Conroy
- “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 we only seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
- “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
- “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
- “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
- “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
Did we miss any of your favorite authors or a travel quote that you live by? Let us know in the comments down below!
