Quotes on Inspiring 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.

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

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.

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.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

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

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.

Go at least once a year to a place you've never been before.

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.

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

Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

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

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.

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

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.