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Discover my favorite inspirational quotes for travel and journeys to reflect and inspire new adventures and travel plans. Traveler or tourist; journey or vacation; travelogue or trip review. The idea of traveling was always considered a challenging, almost brave experience, like the ventures of Gilgamesh and Ulysses. Travel and journeys are common themes in literature and poetry. In endless poems, songs, stories, and books we find the adventures of fearless travelers on long journeys.
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My favorite quotes for travel
In ancient times, people were traveling to make battles or avoid wars. They were also trying to escape from a problem or find a survival solution. Maybe they were starting a journey to make their fortune or satisfy their curiosity and their desire for knowledge. Nowadays, people still start dangerous journeys for survival reasons. And, there are others that organize their vacation for relaxation or to fulfill their desires and expectations about life.
St. Augustine
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
― St. Augustine
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Lao Tzu
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
Anais Nin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” Anais Nin
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anais Nin
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gustave Flaubert
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Gustave Flaubert
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustave Flaubert
Hans Christian Andersen
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” Hans Christian Andersen
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
Jack Kerouac
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.” Jack Kerouac
“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac
“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…” Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
― Mark Twain
Haruki Murakami
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.” Haruki Murakami
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere.”
― Haruki Murakami
Oscar Wilde
“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.” Oscar Wilde
“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”
― Oscar Wilde
My favorite quotes for journeys
The word journey usually is not referring to a simple movement, but to a whole gradual “A to Z” progress. From birth to maturity, ignorance to knowledge, and nonsensical to a meaningful existence. No matter what meaning we give to these words, the essence of the journey is apocalyptic for one’s personality. And, the nature of the traveler is transformative, too.
Ernest Hemingway
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” Ernest Hemingway
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
― Ernest Hemingway
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C.P. Cavafy
“When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.” C.P. Cavafy
“When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy
T.S. Eliot
“The journey not the arrival matters.” T.S. Eliot
“The journey not the arrival matters.”
― T.S. Eliot
Rudyard Kipling
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it”. Rudyard Kipling
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it”.
― Rudyard Kipling
Terry Pratchett
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
Confucious
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucious
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucious
J.R.Tolkien
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J.R.Tolkien
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Henry Miller
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
― Henry Miller
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