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We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the world. We must travel if we want to find them and flush them from their hiding places!
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
All three wore the air of superiority assumed by people who are already in a place when studying new arrivals.
— Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile
I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends.
— Ma Jian
My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category: ordeal travel. At every turn I faced challenges, difficulties and threats when in the Congo. The challenge was to assess and choose the option best suited to making progress. But there were moments when there were no alternatives, or shortcuts or clever ideas. At these times, ordeal travel became really no ordeal at all.
— Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
On a hike, the days pass with the wind, the sun, the stars; movement is powered by a belly full of food and water, not a noxious tankful of fossil fuels. On a hike, you're less a job title and more a human being....A periodic hike not only stretches the limbs but also reminds us: Wow, there's a big old world out there.
— Ken Ilgunas, Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
Travellers ne'er did lie,Though fools at home condemn 'em.-Antonio
— William Shakespeare
But what then? What had he really gained by all this trouble? What had he brought back from this long and weary journey? Nothing, say you? Perhaps so;...Truly, would you not for less than that go around the world?
— Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
Le Marais?’‘It’s a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It’s the only place to stay.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
In the modern world, if you want to travel off the beaten path, stay off the beaten media path.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Explore new adventures.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Few can see wither their road will lead them, till they comes to it's end. - Gimli
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other. This balance between making camp and following the seasons is both very ancient and very new. We all need both.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Although I had savored my solitude, there was a big difference between enjoying time to myself and feeling lonely. I had no reason to feel lonely because Lord Krishna, my friend and ever well-wisher, was with me the entire time.
— Samita Sarkar, I Am the Ocean
Go on vacation. You're turning into an itchB!
— Demi's BFF-- Vicky
Elvira, as befitting one who represented a magazine, registered first and demanded a room and bath. She pronounced it "bawth." The clerk seemed aghast at the request. However, in that hotel, any lady got whatever she asked for. It was her unquestioned right, as a lady. But there was no bath in the hotel, nor running water for that matter. The clerk faltered out something about a nice bowl and pitcher in every room, and said he thought they could provide a foot tub. He was sorry; there was no bath. Elvira couldn't grasp the situation. She thought the clerk was stupid--a hotel without a bath was a contradiction in terms. When she explained that she wanted something for complete immersion, the clerk seemed embarrassed. At his wits' end, he suggested (blushing like fire) that the colored boy could bring up the hog scalder.
— Beatrice Fairfax, Ladies now and then
In the evening, the tarantella dancers will come to the hotel; perhaps they'll dance and sing in the courtyard that is dripping with wistaria blooms and pungent with citrus perfumes. They wear gay costumes, these who sing and dance for us to keep alive the romance of other days; and they are full of that joy in living which seems the gift of these siren shores.
— Clara E. Laughlin
The train rolled right through dinner and over the sunset and around ten o'clock and into a nap and out the next day...
— Lindsay Mattick, Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World's Most Famous Bear
I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage “truth is stranger than fiction.” Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.
— Dan Grajek, The Last Hobo: A Clueless Detroit Kid Hitchhikes Across America the Summer the Seventies Ran Out of Gas
Ah, Toulouse, you have travelled too much. You know the gods of a hundred lands, those of the trees and mountains, the sky and sea, the stars and planets, of demons and angels, and even the Master of the Cosmos. But I am speaking of God. There are others, I’m sure, but only one God who created even great Zeus and Rama. Yet travel is like philosophy: a few years of it will perk the eye to differences, which you shall be able to notice with ease. Yet living as I have, travelling to lonely lands and through a thousand metropolises and hidden woods, you rather see the similarities. All becomes one, and God too becomes one. Not the sum of all those gods here, but beyond them, a being few philosophers have truly grasped. He has always been one, but he is severed in our minds. So it is up to us to piece him back together. If our souls possess a clarity beyond what our mortal nature can bestow, we shall see him.
— Mary-Jean Harris, Wrestling with Gods
I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied!
— John Masefield
It doesn't matter where I go, I don't want to be there. And then I get to the next place, and I don't want to be there either.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory
Every place of arrival should have a booth set up and manned by an ordinary person whose task it is to greet strangers and give them a little trophy of local space-time stuff - tell them of his difficulties in high school and put a pinch of soil in their pockets - in order to insure that the stranger shall not become an Anyone.
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
It was as simply as that. And as complex.
— Svetlana Meritt, Meet Me in the Underworld: How 77 Sacred Sites, 770 Cappuccinos, and 26,000 Miles Led Me to My Soul
Everywhere I travel to, there is my home.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
With courage of adventure, you can overcome the culture shock in a visit to a new country.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Every new journey transforms the traveler.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.
— Samuel Johnson
Rome is a broken mirror, the falling straps of a dress, a puzzle of astonishing complexity. It is an iceberg floating below our terrace, all its ballasts hidden beneath the surface.
— Anthony Doerr
Life is way too short to get lost, so follow the script the way it comes and keep changing the checkpoints on every page.
— Neetesh Dixit
I suppose because I grew up a thousand miles from the sea and missed the great age of passenger liners, I have always been subject to a romantic longing for ocean travel.
— Bill Bryson
The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.
— Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country
In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.
— Éric  Weiner
The stupa is a white dome with a conical stone tower emerging from its center. There are two eyes painted on the tower, the all seeing eyes of Buddha. They're purple, and look a little sinister, like an Old Testament Buddha.
— Joshua Isard, Conquistador of the Useless
We dare travel to the sacred land.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What matter it how far we go?" his scaly friend replied."There is another shore, you know, upon the other side.
— Lewis Carroll
What will happen if you can travel in somebody's memories??To see did he done this crime, who kill this woman, or this man, what he has done, what he is planning what happen then if we know this??
— Deyth Banger
And then I saw what I was to see so many times on the journey—a look of longing. “Lord! I wish I could go.” “Don’t you like it here?” “Sure. It’s all right, but I wish I could go.” “You don’t even know where I’m going.”“I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
The moon was low but not full. The men set out along the dock in conversation. As they dropped onto the dark beach, Simmons declared, ‘There can be no better place in the world than this.’Henderson had to agree. The beach was beautiful. The stars lit the sand and balmy air rode in as the waves washed up on paradise
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
I don't think someone's worth can be measured by the number of cities he visited, the number of countries he traveled to or the number of seas and oceans he crossed.One can be a traveler even by simply going to the end of the street.
— Laure Lacornette
It had occurred to her many times that on board it didn’t matter where you were coming from or where you were heading. Each voyage had its own charisma. Like writing a book – word by word – or crossing a country – step by step – each minute had to be lived moment by moment.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.
— Paul Theroux
Travel as much as you can because your life is not bigger than this world...!!!
— M.Rehan Behleem
The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.
— Joanne Harris, Chocolat
I wish I were rich enough to endow a prize for the sensible traveler: £10,000 for the first man to over Marco Polo’s outward route, reading three fresh books a week, and another £10,000 if he a drinks a bottle of wine a day as well. That man might tell one something about the journey. He might or might not be naturally observant. But at least he would use what eyes he had, and would not think it necessary to dress up the result in thrills that never happened and science no deeper than its own jargon.
— Robert Byron
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will - whatever we may think. They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outwards in space, but inwards as well. Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection....
— Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she’d insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello.
— Erika Lopez, Flaming Iguanas: An Illustrated All-Girl Road Novel Thing
The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.
— Paul Theroux
The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the gulls that fished the foaming water close to shore. Now that he felt so free, it came to him that the corner of England, which up till now had been his whole universe, was in fact only a scrap of a boundless realm.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
Her eyes betrayed no shock at the sights of the quay as they unfolded – not the sweating deckhands, the prostitutes crowding the ship, the hubbub of stalls, including one where three slaves were for sale, their ankles manacled. She might as well have been walking through a country garden as she moved inexorably away from the water.
— Sara Sheridan, On Starlit Seas
If you go on the road hoping to find it, you might discover you've had it with you all along. That which you seek is yourself.
— D.C. Leberknight, Globalocity: The Adventures of Raymond
It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.
— William Styron, Sophie's Choice
If you find you are traveling on wrong road, turn to the right direction.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all pilgrims who seek Italy.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even migrating birds know that nature doesn't demand a choice between nesting and flight.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.
— Marty Rubin
I have come to believe that we steer our individual spheres of being through the spectra of possible worlds via the choices we make, the acts we perform. Most people stick to known routes, and therefore cannot travel far. They live too modestly, and perhaps too privately. Only by being strange can we move, for strange acts cause us to be rejected by whatever normality we have offended, and to be propelled towards a normality that can better accommodate us.
— K.J. Bishop, The Etched City
The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.
— Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship
What we seek in travel is neither discovery nor trade but rather a gentle deterritorialization: we want to be taken over by the journey - in other words, by absence. As our metal vectors transcend meridians, oceans and poles, absence takes on a fleshy quality. The clandestineness of the depths of private life gives way to annihilation by longitude and latitude. But in the end the body tires of not knowing where it is, even if the mind finds this absence exalting, as if it were a quality proper to itself.Perhaps, after all, what we seek in others is the same gentle deterritorialization that we seek in travel. Instead of one's own desire, instead of discovery, we are tempted by exile in the desire of the other, or by the desire of the other as an ocean to cross. The looks and gestures of lovers already have the distance of exile about them; the language of lovers is an expatriation in words that are afraid to signify; and the bodies of lovers are a tender hologram to eye and hand, offering no resistance and hence susceptible of being crisscrossed, like airspace, by desire. We move around with circumspection on a mental planet of circumvolutions, and from our excesses and passions we bring back the same transparent memories as we do from our travels.
— Jean Baudrillard
Then his friend said, 'If you fly you will save a day.' He nodded, he agreed, he would sacrifice his ticket, he would save a day. I ask you what does a day saved matter to him or to you? A day saved from what? for what? Instead of spending the day traveling, you will see your friend a day earlier, but you cannot stay indefinitely, you will travel home twenty-four hours sooner, that is all. But you will fly home and again save a day? Save it form what, for what? You will begin work a day earlier, but you cannot work on indefinitely. It only means that you will cease work a day earlier. And then, what? You cannot die a day earlier. So you will realize perhaps how rash it was of you to save a day, when you discover how you cannot escape those twenty-four hours you have so carefully preserved; you may push them forward and push them forward, but some time they must be spend, and then you may wish you had spent them as innocently as in the train from Ostend.
— Graham Greene, Twenty-one Stories
Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.
— Elizabeth von Arnim, The Benefactress
The artificial preservation of local identities is essential to tourism. In other words, the tourist represents both the attempt to transcend all borders and identities and the simultaneous attempt to fix the identities of non-Western subjects within its gaze.
— William T. Cavanaugh, Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church
Early morning: set off at dawn. Travel round in front of the sun, steal a day's march on him. Keep it up for ever never grow a day older technically.
— James Joyce
I do not know where the road may end, but I will keep traveling onward.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
T- ThrillingR- RoadA- Along the V- VibrantE - Experiences Of L - Life
— rajat chakraborty
There is no "right" way--only the way that is put before you.
— Jake T. Forbes, Return to Labyrinth, Vol. 1
Wanderlust, the very strong or irresistible impulse to travel, is adopted untouched from the German, presumably because it couldn't be improved upon. Workarounds like the French passion du voyage don't quite capture the same meaning. Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly; it's something more animal and more fickle - something more like lust. We don't lust after many things in life. We don't need words like worklust or homemakinglust.
— Elisabeth Eaves, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live...in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.
— Anatole Broyard
Travel makes me feel like a bird,Travel gives me a sense of freedom,Travel makes me come alive!
— Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
Your Eyes Travel a Thousand Miles,But your mind will travel even more
— AnnaBella Cavanagh
Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.
— Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue
Since this often seems to come up in discussions of the radical style, I'll mention one other gleaning from my voyages. Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying "The Personal Is Political." It began as a sort of reaction to defeats and downturns that followed 1968: a consolation prize, as you might say, for people who had missed that year. I knew in my bones that a truly Bad Idea had entered the discourse. Nor was I wrong. People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they 'felt', not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for. It became the replication in even less interesting form of the narcissism of the small difference, because each identity group begat its sub-groups and "specificities." This tendency has often been satirised—the overweight caucus of the Cherokee transgender disabled lesbian faction demands a hearing on its needs—but never satirised enough. You have to have seen it really happen. From a way of being radical it very swiftly became a way of being reactionary; the Clarence Thomas hearings demonstrated this to all but the most dense and boring and selfish, but then, it was the dense and boring and selfish who had always seen identity politics as their big chance.Anyway, what you swiftly realise if you peek over the wall of your own immediate neighbourhood or environment, and travel beyond it, is, first, that we have a huge surplus of people who wouldn't change anything about the way they were born, or the group they were born into, but second that "humanity" (and the idea of change) is best represented by those who have the wit not to think, or should I say feel, in this way.
— Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
All journeys eventually end in the same place, home.
— Chris Geiger, Bad Cells
The world is a thick bookand I am a big bookworm.
— Anika Redhed
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Time is Short. Take Time to Travel.
— Barbara K Olson
Roads remain the essential network of the non-virtual world. They are the infrastructure upon which almost all other infrastructure depends. They are the paths of human endeavor.
— Ted Conover
Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. The ice looked colder and more mysterious, the sky a cleaner shade of blue. The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person. And my emotions were similarly amplified: The highs were higher; the periods of despair were deeper and darker. To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place.
— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.
— Jess Riley, Driving Sideways
Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Wherever I travel to, I encounter great souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Walk on your sacred path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
— Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.
— Nayomi Munaweera, What Lies Between Us
I dare walk alone on my sacred path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
— John Cheever, The Brigadier and the Golf Widow
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.
— Aldous Huxley
There is a beautiful village in every country.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You dare travel on the own sacred road.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Everything you need to know to enjoy your trip to Italy is in my Conversational Italian for Travelers books!
— Kathryn Occhipinti, Conversational Italian for Travelers: Just the Verbs
Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.
— Kenneth Eade, Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel
Why don't these translation books just include general phrases that could be applied in a variety of situations like, "Say nothing unless it's in English"?
— Joe Cawley
The Ache That Would Not LeaveBehind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a persistent and wild longing for something she could not easily put into words. It felt like impulsive adventures and watching the sun rise over unfamiliar mountains, or coffee in a street café, set to the background music of a foreign language. It was the smell of the ocean, with dizzying seagulls whirling in a cobalt sky; exotic foods and strange faces, in a city where no one knew her name. She wanted secrets whispered at midnight, and road trips without a map, but most of all, she ached for someone who desired to explore the mysteries that lay sleeping within her. The truly heartbreaking part was that she could feel the remaining days of her life falling away, like leaves from an autumn tree, but still this mysterious person who held the key to unlock her secrets did not arrive; they were missing, and she knew not where to find them.
— John Mark Green
The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters
We'd all be lucky in life if we had the chance to experience an unexpected adventure, and then make our way back safely to a place of comfort. Sometimes the only way we can appreciate our home and the simple happiness it has to offer is to be away from it for a while.
— Noble Smith, The Wisdom of the Shire: A Short Guide to a Long and Happy Life
Kabhi tere shehar se guzarein toh parr lena inney,Maine hawaon pe apne kuch safarname likhe hain..
— Jasz Gill
It is so gratifying to tell so many stories my eye can romance with, that i become the stories.They shall live on after me, and in that way it makes me immortal
— Deejay Kapil
Every experience has a pattern and sometimes it teaches us through the spirit of patience captured, that there are no coincidences in life.
— Deejay Kapil
I felt that first awareness that there’s a whole set of species whose sounds and calls you’ve never heard—the wonder of realizing that people are growing up with an entirely different sensory experience from yours. This whole country seemed so shiny to me.
— Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
life will come to an end one moment in time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Where you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Time define sacred events.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the cold; that woman anxiously counting her comical flock lest one goose escape her vigilance; all those who slept, or toiled, or loved under the low-hung roofs or the sharp turrets. Those people out there, if they caught sight of her own face pressed close to the window pane, might be speculating about her. To them she was part of the pattern of the lumbering train with its trail of smoke and little boxlike carriages. Perhaps they envied her, riding at ease to distant Paris. How little they knew of that! How little she herself know what awaited her at the end of the journey!
— Rachel Field
It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself.Individually, inspired, and imaginative.
— Anna Asche
Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically impossible to resist) and eat it as they leave the boulangerie. And that's usually all you will see being consumed on the street. Compare that with the public eating and drinking that goes on in America: pizza, hot dogs, nachos, tacos, heroes, potato chips, sandwiches, jerricans of coffee, half-gallon buckets of Coke (Diet, of cours) and heaven knows what else being demolished on the hoof, often on the way to the aerobic class.
— Peter Mayle
The traveling world is parallel to the world of those rooted to one spot; it is the other end of the telescope, so to speak. Things that are taken by most people to have solidity and permanence become relative and subject to time. The church spire, the town hall or courthouse that watches over your days and is an ever-fixed mark to the merchant or the laborer, is to the traveling man only one among many such. The cherished touchstones of your daily life are to him a set of fresh opportunities for passing adventure, a source of profit to be extracted quickly, like gold from a small mountain, before moving on to the next El Dorado.
— Tom Piazza
Every travel is sacred.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself. Individually, inspired, and imaginative.
— Anna Asche
May you walk on the path of light.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May you walk on sacred-path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
But you've looked forward to this trip for so long.""And now I won't have it to look forward to any longer.
— Ashley Warlick, The Arrangement
If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.
— Russell Hannon, Stop Dreaming Start Traveling: The Ultimate Guide to Traveling More and Spending Less
The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.
— Chuck Klosterman
The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Your choices can only be limited by your mind.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
You can work hard,But if you don't work smarterYou 'll work hard for the rest of your life.
— Unknown
Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
God will make straight our paths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
May God point the right road for your journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Travel steadily in your define path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Travel on your define path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Only the traveler knows the details of the journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God will make straight my path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
You don’t know about the other travellers you meet and they in turn have no idea who you are, and that is truly special, for there isn’t any detrimental preconceived notions about the other, and in this space there is room for understanding and healing. When you backpack, for the first time in a long time, you feel like you belong and are connected to not only with the world, but also with your inner self.
— Forrest Curran
Just as much as it is about booking flights, sharing hostel rooms with strangers, and learning to say hello in a variety of languages; travel is about the momentarily times of breakdowns, longing of all the great things back home, and the tears you hold back from each good-bye, which in the entirety, makes up the honest human experience of living.
— Forrest Curran
We were all in that crammed 8 person hostel room for our own personal reasons; whether we were trying to get away from demons of the past or because you realized we were all fucked up in the head a bit and had to cure chaos with chaos; for whatever reason, we met in that hostel lobby, as the only foreigners on the boat, or ended up travelling across a couple of countries together for a few weeks just because I happened to sit next to you on that bus.
— Forrest Curran
Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
— Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diversity will have much to say about whether we will in the end be able to rise successfully to the great challenges we face today.
— Dan Smith, The State of the World Atlas
Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.
— Ken Poirot
Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.
— Jane Smiley
Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound...Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly." The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as the use of a map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredom, lest his tail grow scaly.
— Jon Krakauer, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.
— James Salter
It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.
— Sunday Adelaja
And what I learned is this: there are places in the world war one feels new, young, and alive again.
— Suzanne Joinson
Can't get myself down by thinking about what could have been, right?
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I'd gotten high enough to fly through time.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I figured, what harm could come from a little bit of fun? Crabs. The Canadian girl gave me crabs.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Travel is life-changing. That's the promise made by a thousand websites and magazines, by philosophers and writers down the ages. Mark Twain said it was fatal to prejudice, and Thomas Jefferson said it made you wise. Anais Nin observed that "we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." It's all true. Self-transformation is what I sought and what I found.
— Elisabeth Eaves, Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents
There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.
— Elisabeth Eaves
I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.
— Jackie Haze, Borderless
Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.
— Unknown
In the travellers’ world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability – to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour – seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge – where to sleep? – has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the traveller’s precise location and welfare – and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity.
— Dervla Murphy
I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known
— Don George
Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...
— Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.
— Hannah Harding
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.
— Lillian E. Smith
You never know travel path of every man.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn’t want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only “something else” worth living.
— Jackie Haze, Borderless
The sacred travel path is one’s life journey.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.
— Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.
— Richard Ford
Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea that there's something interesting in their lives. It's musical chairs in reverse..... All the upgrades in existence lead to the same airports and resort hotels, the same pina colada bullshit. The tourists smile at their tans and their shiny teeth and think they're happy. But the suntans hide who they really are-- salary slaves, with heads full of American rubbish. Travel is the last fantasy the 2oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself.
— J.G. Ballard, Millennium People
I would rather have 10,000 stories than 10,000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered.
— Daniel Roy Baron, Looking Glass Shattered: Cubicle Commando to Constitutional Conservative Leader
Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross.
— Anonymous
Better to stay home than travel in a hurry.
— Marty Rubin
Haste and panic were poor traveling companions, and this trip he'd reaped the consequences in spades.
— Laura Frantz, Love's Reckoning
Here we are at last. The Italian proverb says “See Naples and die” but I say, see Naples and live; for there seems a great deal worth living for.
— Arthur John Strutt
By the first mouthful I knew that I was going to get drunk that night. The drink tasted too good not to.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
As long as your determination is at least as long as the the road you travel, you will definitely reach your destination!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us
—  we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.
A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Your choice is your choice and you need to accept what happens, not shift the blame to someone else if it doesn't turn out your way.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I'm not a hero, though. I'm just a man.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
It'll be the biggest decision of my life. Knowing me, I'll probably make the wrong choice.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Anxiety's already tingling my skin.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
As I travelled south through Europe everything got bigger. This applied to nice things like fruit-the nectarines and tomatoes were about six times as large in Greece as they were in Britain for example. But the principle also applied to unpleasant things, like spiders, and worms, and all other nameless and horrifying insects and arachnids of Greece.
— Margaret Eleanor Leigh, The Wrong Shade of Yellow
It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?
— Frances Mayes
Appreciate the negatives. Because the negatives are what you learn from to make more positives.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Yeah," I said because it led to more options than 'no'.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Do you want me to call the internet police for you?
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Natural art is the most amazing form of art there is.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
The best part of traveling is finding yourself.
— Ken Poirot
Some journeys can only be traveled alone.
— Ken Poirot
Whatever we do we are always on the way to somewhere!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Every single moment is a travel into the unknown!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er… no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can get kind of lonely.
— John Mulaney
… everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted ridges of the rim of the Kathmandu Valley. Or, after a rainstorm, wisps of clouds clung to the trees as if scared to let go. Behind, himals peeked out shyly between the clouds.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth, A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas
In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere
— Deborah Ellis, Looking for X
Much travel is needed before the raw man is ripened.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.
— Hannah Harding
Staying out all night and sleeping most of the day is quite a drain on the wallet.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
My old ways were much more appealing than my new ways.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
When you're in the safety of the future, the past doesn't seem so relevant.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
The scenery doesn't necessarily improve in proportion to how far you travel or how much you spend.
— Ron Lizzi, Go Outside and Come Back Better: Benefits from Nature That Everyone Should Know
I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.
— S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
I have two moods when I get drunk. The common mood is the lazy, happy-go-lucky guy. The uncommon mood is the frustrated, self-deprecating guy. That night was the latter.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I was far too nervous to be concerned about contributing to the conversations.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
You'll be making so much cash that you won't know what to waste it on.
— S.A. Tawks, Mule
Nothing has changed, Claire. You're still as beautiful as you were when we met first and I am still in love with everything about you. We may be worlds apart but this doesn't keep our hearts at distance. I feel your breath in every breath of mine and I hear your heartbeat in every beat of my heart. I traveled to far away lands, rivers, forests, mountains, glaciers, deserts and skyscrapers but wherever I go I find you there. My dreams aren't illusions but visions of a beautiful yesterday; I play with your hair-locks, I kiss your eyes, I embrace your hands and you giggle in my arms blossoming like a flower. My love, you're my only reality, my only fantasy, my only celebration and my only refuge. I have waited a thousands suns and I can wait a thousand more to witness the moment you call out to me. That day you'll find me and even if I don't live up to see that day I will be with you forever, just remember me.
— Huseyn Raza