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You know when you are heading on a holiday, writing in your journal or phone( more likely) and you think of travel quotes that aptly describe that very moment?
I am the same!
Although, I have to admit most times I am only doing it to post a caption on Instagram that I am too lazy to think of.
Moments like these, I realise how few resources exist to help me conquer my travel quotes desire.
Hence, I undertook the task of helping man(and women)kind find what they are looking for!
Here goes!
[su_heading size=”22″]The Popular Travel Quotes[/su_heading]
1. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
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2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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3. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
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4. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
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5. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
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6. “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.”
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[su_heading size=”22″]The Classic Romantic Quotes[/su_heading]
7. “To travel is to live.”
― The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
8. “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
― Red Dust: A Path Through China
9. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”
― On the Road
10. “So I find words I never thought to speak
In streets I never thought I should revisit
When I left my body on a distant shore.”
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11. “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
― Maxims and Reflections
12. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
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13. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
[su_heading]The Reality Check Quotes[/su_heading]
14. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
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15. “No matter where you are, you’re always a bit on your own, always an outsider.”
― Goodbye Tsugumi
16. “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
― The Brook Kerith
17. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”
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18. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
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19. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.”
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20. “The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.”
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21. “No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”
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22. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
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23. “One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
― The Innocents Abroad
24. “Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”
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25. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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26. “And then there is 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.” – Randy Komisar
[su_heading]The Don’t Fit Above But Still Good Travel Quotes[/su_heading]
27. “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?”
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28. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
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29. “Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!”
― Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
30. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac
Chloe Daniels | Clo Bare says
Love this, and I think my favorite it “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” I feel that way about people who ask for the WiFi password IMMEDIATELY after arriving to any place ever.
Shruti says
I know what you mean, and I couldn’t agree more!
Steve says
I love these quotes, especially as there are a few there I’ve never read before The one from ― Mark Twain “One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”