Travel Wisdom Archive

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
-Amelia Earhart

“I need a six month vacation, twice a year.”
- Unknown

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler who is foreign.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

"It Feels Good To Be Lost In The Right Direction"
- unknown

"Don't listen to what they say, so see."
- Chinese Proverb

“Be Fearless in the Pursuit of What Sets Your Soul on Fire.” 
   - Jennifer Lee

"Let Your Memories Be Greater Than Your Dreams — Douglas Investor"
~ Douglas Investor

“The woman who does not require validation from anyone is the most feared individual on the planet.”
- Mohadesa Najumi

“It’s time to remember what it’s like to feel alive.”
- Unknown

“Great things never came from comfort zones”
- Anonymous

“Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.”
- Jaime Lyn Beatty

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did do.” 
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“I lost myself to please everyone else. Now I am losing everyone while I’m finding myself.” 
- Unknown

“I travel because it gives me new life each and every time.”
- Fernando de la Fuente

“The Biggest Risk In Life, is not taking one.”
- Barfi 

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

“Travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
- Aldous Huxley

“Never Stop Doing Things for the First time.”
- Unknown 

“I Need A Vacation Of 6 Months. Twice A Year.”
- Unknown

“Travel Status:  In a Relationship With My Passport”
- Unknown

“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away
than by oppression half a block from home.”
- Carl T. Rowan

“Adventure may hit, but monotony will kill you."-
- Unknown

 “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”
- Unknown

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make its own people comfortable”.
- Clifton Fadiman

“I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel brochure”.
- Unknown

“ I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance.”
- Unknown

“There’s No Time to Be Bored In A World As Beautiful As This.”
- Unknown

“Of All The Books In The World, The Best Stories Are Found Between The Pages of A Passport.”
- Unknown

“The Goal Is to Die With Memories Not Dreams.”
- Unknown

“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

“Travel doesn’t become an advantage until you leave yourself behind.”
- Marty Rubin

“Travel is rebellion in its purest form”
- Unknown

“Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
- Unknown 

“She took the leap and built her wings on the way down.”
- Unknown

“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

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
- Jane Austen

“Travel Is still the most intense mode of learning.”
- Kevin Kelley

“Every hundred feet the world changes.”
- Roberto Bolzano

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
- Anita Desai

“A Year ago, everything was different.  And now that I look back, I realize that a year can do a lot to a person.”
– Unknown

“Travel has made me more aware of me.  I learn more about myself while on the road than anywhere else.  It’s given me the I can make it happen attitude.”
- Jessica Johnson

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

“Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.”
– Kevin Kelly

“Don’t Listen to what they say.  Go see.”
– Unknown

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”
– Jaimie Lyn Beatty

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

“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

“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.”
– Lovelle Drachman

“Adventure is worthwhile.”
– Aesop

“A ship in a harbor is safe, but it is not what ships are built for.”
– John A. Shedd

“It’s is not down on any map; true places never are.”
– Herman Melville

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”
– Jamie Lyn Beatty

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

“Cover the Earth Before It Covers You”
- Dagobert D Runes

“My heart is a map. I open it up, and it invites me with a different question: “Where do you want me to be?”  The answer is easy:  “EVERYWHERE “
- The Wherever Writer

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

“Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.”
– Unknown

“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.” 
- Randy Komisar

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Andre Gide

"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

"Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown"
- Anthony Bourdain

“It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.”
– Unknown

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

“Travel has made me more aware of me.  I learn more about myself while on the road than anywhere else.” 
– Jessica Johnson

“To Travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“India – a land where the last thing one needs to bother with is looking good.  In India – at least in the circles I moved in – it’s natural to look beautiful by the smile on your heart through the world you move through.”
– Erin Reese

“Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
– Ma Jian

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
- Roman Payne

"A nomad will remain for life. In love with distant and uncharted places."
- Isabelle Eberhardt

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling."
- Jack Kerouac

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we'd have roots instead of feet."
- Rachel Wolchin

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

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

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

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

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

 “Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around.  If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much.”
– Lucy Lippard

“ I have an Insane calling to be where I’m not.” – Unknown

“Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.” -  Kevin Kelly

“Live is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.” – Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
– Unknown

“See the world.  It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”
- Erol Ozah

“Make voyages.  Attempt them.  There’s nothing else.”
- Tennessee Williams

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise.  It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.”
- Joe Abercrombie

“Every hundred feet the world changes.”
- Roberto Belano

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s Lethal.”
– Unknown

“If You are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”
– Maya Angelou

“It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousands times.”
-A Randle

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.”
– Chinese Proverb

"Travel is still the most intense mode of learning."
- Kevin Kelly

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old
pillow."
- Lin Yutang

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."
- Lorraine Hansberry

" And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling."
- Shanti 

"Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves"
- Carol Pearson

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find  it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they had plenty of sleep."
- Unknown

"I love to walk a city, whether I've been there once or a hundred times
before. It's amazing what sort of inspiration you'll find when you
steal a second glance."    
-Erin Hiemstra 

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."   
- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I don't want to spend decades on this planet and never
see the diversity of places God created."
- Unknown

"Travel is still the most intense mode of learning."
- Kevin Kelly

"You'll Never Know Until You Go"
- Your Passport

"Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures"
- B. Trow

"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see."
- G.K. Chesterton

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own."
- Anna Quindlen

"Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently."
- Shane L. Koyczan

"Every hundred feet the world changes."
- Roberto Bolano

"I was never going  to go if I waited for someone to come with me."
- Laura

"Never Get so buy making a living that you forget to make a life."
 - Unknown

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
 - Cloud Atlas

Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport."
 - Unknown 

"To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom."
- Leah Stewart

"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew
especially strong in Spring."
- Vladimir Nabokov

"It sounds so far away and different. I like places. I like any place that isn't here."
- Edna Ferber

"While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high."
- Whitney Otto

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Albert Camus

"All you need is a dose of Vitamin Sea." - Unknown

"The world is big, and I want to have a look at it before it gets dark." - John Muir

"If you stumble, make it a dance." - Unknow

"I don't want to spend decades on this planet and never see the diversity of places God created." - Unknown

"It feels good to be lost in the right direction." - Unknown

"One travels to run away from routine. That dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity" - Ella Mailfait

"Travel, as much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life is not meant to be lived in one place." - Anonymous

"No matter when or why you travel, there is always something wonderfully new to be found."
- Anonymous

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." - David Bowie

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”  - Marcel Proust

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”  - Roman Payne

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without  traveling.” – Roman Payne

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

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi

“The traveler sees what he sees.  The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

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

"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."
- Isabelle Eberhardt

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself."
- Danny Kaye

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of  
experience."
- Francis Bacon

"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind."
- Seneca

"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

"You don't have to be rich to travel."
- Eugene Fodor

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel -- not a destination."
- Roy M. Goodman

"I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine."
- Caskie Stinnett

"The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have."
- Anna Quindlen

"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

"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."
- Elizabeth Gilbert

"There is no way I was born to just pay bills and die."
- Unknown

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old familiar pillow."
- Lin Yutang

"If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class." 
- Ray Floyd

“One Travels to Run Away From Routine, That Dreadful Routine That Kills All Imagination And All Our Capacity for Enthusiasm.”
– Ella Maillart

"Traveling -- It Leaves You Speechless, Then Turns You Into A Story Teller."
- Ibn Battuta

"Travel is rebellion in its purest form."
- Unknown

"We shall not cease from 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. Eliot

"Ever Since Happiness Heard Your Name, It Has Been Running Through The Streets Trying to Find You."
- Hafiz

"Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.  
- Anita Desai

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In Italy, they add work and life onto food and wine.”
- Robin Leach

“It is better to travel well than to arrive.”
- Buddha

"Our Happiest Moments As Tourists Always Seem To Come When We Stumble  Upon One Thing While In Pursuit Of Something Else." 
- Lawrence Block

"The Journey Itself is My Home."
- Matsuo Basho

"When in Doubt, Travel."
- Unknown

"Begin doing what you want to do now...We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snow flake."
- Unknown

"I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone"
- Neale Donald Walsh

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
- Susan Sontag

"People Underestimate Their Capacity for Change.  There is Never a Right Time To Do a Difficult Thing."
- John Porter

"When Something Goes Wrong in Your Life, Just Yell "Plot Twist" and Move On."
- Unknown

"One's Destination is Never a Place. But a New Way of Seeing Things."
- Henry Miller

"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

"Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place."
- Unknown

"Please Be a Traveler NOT a Tourist.  Try New Things.  Meet New People. 
And Look Beyond What's Right in Front of You. 
Those are the keys to Understanding this Amazing World We Live In."
- Andrew Zimmern

"Don't Look Back; You're Not Going That Way."
- Anonymous

"Fill Your Life With Experiences, Not Things. Have Stories To Tell Not Stuff To Show"
- Unknown

"She took the leap and built her wings on the way down."
- Unknown

"They Told Me I couldn't,  that's Why I Did."
- Unknown