- “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
- As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. Anthony Bourd
- Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
- “I turn my face to the window as the train starts to move. Charles suggested I take the car, but I prefer this strange elevated route out of town, the rooftop tour of south London as the carriages rattle between spires and old smokestacks and the tips of poplars; the sudden glimpses into school playgrounds and street markets and quiet litter-strewn alleys, narrow avenues of blackened brick. Little by little the city falls away, like something giving up, and then the acoustics of the carriage change, and we’re out in the open: meadows riven with streams, the fast blue shadows of clouds on the hills.” ― Harriet Lane, Her
- I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list. Susan Sontag
- “Integrity is something we show, not proclaim.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. Bruce Chatwin
- I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin (First human to journey into outer space)
- “I’d rather have a rock in my pocket than a label on my shoe.” ― ross caligiuri
- If not now, when? Unknown
- “Dare to travel on your defined path.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. Walt Whitman
- “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “ i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth” ― Ernest Shackleton
- “Fare well we call to hearth and hallThough wind may blow and rain may fallWe must away ere break of dayOver the wood and mountain tallTo Rivendell where Elves yet dwellIn glades beneath the misty fellThrough moor and waste we ride in hasteAnd wither then we cannot tellWith foes ahead behind us dreadBeneath the sky shall be our bedUntil at last our toil be spedOur journey done, our errand spedWe must away! We must away!We ride before the break of day!” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
- “On this roadwhere nobody else travelsautumn nightfall.” ― Matsuo Bashō
- “The only thing–I tell you this straight from the heart–that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can’t have any proper social intercourse with those people–and that music does not have a better reputation…For I assure you, without travel, at least for people from the arts and sciences, one is a miserable creature!…A man of mediocre talents always remains mediocre, may he travel or not–but a man of superior talents, which I cannot deny myself to have without being blasphemous, becomes–bad, if he always stays in the same place. If the archbishop would trust me, I would soon make his music famous; that is surely true.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The goal is to die with memories not dreams. Unknown
- “There is a beautiful village in every country.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home. Rolf Potts
- “No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.” ― Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi
- “I was one of the many millions to misunderstand what is wild. I have read authors’ definitions of “wild” as any place you can walk for a week witthout meeting a road or fence. But I think that is a narrow view, a consumer view, a transactional perspective that expects a landscape to give us the sense of wilderness in return for our travel. It is one I subscribed to for many years, which is partly why I found myself in those places, but now I see it as lazy. A sense of wild is engendered by awareness, a sense of connection with and deep understanding of any landscape. The pavement of any city side street wriggles with enough life to terrify and delight us if we choose to immerse ourselves in it” ― Tristan Gooley, The Nature Instinct: Relearning Our Lost Intuition for the Inner Workings of the Natural World
- When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)
- “That’s the rub. People want to see wildlife in their secret nests and dens raising their young, migrating sparring for territory. People want an orca to leap over the bow of their kayak for their camera, but the more we press wild animals, the more we drive them off. Tension grows between the expectations of clients who’ve paid so much to get into these places and the needs of wild creatures.” ― Jill Frayne, Starting Out In the Afternoon
- “Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man…free to travel… free to stop…free to work…free to choose my own teachers…free to follow the religion of my Fathers…free to think and talk and act for myself.” ― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
- Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. John Steinbeck
- Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. Unknown
- “I get so small down there. I think of people and their words. Disappointments and all the rest, but up here, somewhere else, I feel vast. I feel whole. I feel the magic of life, I see the divine in the sky, unbearably excited about this world and my place in it, how I turned myself into a writer who moves with the seasons, wander and seek, teach and learn. Offer small moments of comfort, maybe? hopefully?Down there people make me feel like that’s not good enough. Like what I do isn’t beautiful. But it is, for me. I forget it sometimes but then I leave and find a new home and meet new people who call me by another name and they laugh at my jokes, ask me questions and share things back. I write and I create, learn and try to help and some people make me feel like I’m not doing something real but how can this not be real? How can this not be beautiful?” ― Charlotte Eriksson
- “The world is full of beautiful places. Let your heart be one of them.” ― Jenim Dibie
- He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. Dutch proverb