Travel Quotes

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient...

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.

There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

What one learns in a classroom is just a very small part of learning process . The real learning starts when one crosses borders and travels miles for the real knowledge.

Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.

With languages, you are at home anywhere.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?

The pen is truly mightier than the sword. Unless you're holding a pen and the other guy's holding a sword.

Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.

There is no "wrong train.

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

...and should I die in her care, I would leave smiling because, I will linger in the hills beside her...

And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems.

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

...[I]t behooves a man who wants to see wonders sometimes to go out of his way.

Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can't compare them, can't replace, can't repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.

There are people in this world so rich that when it rains they simply fly away on private jets in search of sun.

For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move

For anyone who wanted to throw away his watch, along with his past, this was the place.

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

How could I ever forget my best friend, the man, who had changed my destiny simply by allowing me to write about him?

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.

...Don't insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

You have not traveled enough, " she said. "Or you'd know that every journeymakes its own map across your heart.

Travel doesn't become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.

Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.

Don’t take everything for granted, and do not always count on finding everything you need.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.

There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, “Who is here the sheykh?” he would answer him “I am he.

When given the chance to see China off the beaten track, definitely take it.

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

When you're traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan....

Admire Beauty

If you travel everywhere and find the same elements everywhere, somehow it reduces the value of the place (Curiosity, Tokyo, Japan)

A little crazy is good