Quotes on Great Travel

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

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

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.

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.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

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.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.

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.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

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.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.