Why travel quotes? You may ask. Let’s step back a little, and let me briefly tell you the backstory.
Back in 2017, I travelled the world for a few months with my sister. It was a once in a lifetime trip where I had the time of my life doing, almost, everything that was on my bucket list. I bungee jumped over a river in Taupo, New Zealand. Skydived over Mission Beach in Australia and had the most stunning view of the Great Barrier Reef while doing it. Even did the classic four-day Inca Trail Hike to Machu Picchu in Peru, which left me more exhausted than I have ever been or thought I could be in my life.
To Travel the World was the Best Decision I Ever Made
I really miss that time in my life. On tough Mondays it can sometimes feel like it’s gonna be ages until I’ll be able to go on another exciting travel adventure. It is on those days I lean quite heavily on travel related posts on social media, books about travel and, especially, quotes about travel. Reading quotes about travel, in particular, inspire me to remain hopeful for the future and keep travelling the second I can.
Without further ado
Here are a few travel quotes that inspire me to keep travelling.
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”
St. Augustine
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it´s lethal.”
Paulo Coelho
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”
Unknown
“We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Sometimes, travelling is the only thing that can heal a broken soul.” – Lára Michelsen
“For my part, I travel not go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Luis Stevenson
“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
“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
“You only live once, but if you do it right once is enough.”
Mae West
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”
Anna Quindlen
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu
“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 Iyer