OH My – what beautiful things people have to say about traveling…
I always travel with hats, and so many people stop me and smile and say, “I love your hat,” And I say… “It is so happy to have gotten to come on this trip with me!.” And it is.
Here is a spectacular group of quotes: https://everything-everywhere.com/best-inspirational-travel-quotes/
Below I couldn’t resist pulling out some of the best for you:
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for” – John A. Shedd
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – Francis Bacon
“The World is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – JRR Tolkien
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel
“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.” – Yogi Berra (Love this LOL – I just bought myself a nice suitcase from Aleon – and it so happy it gets to come on vacation with me – as does a hatbox and carry on Briggs and Riley.)
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. 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.” – William Least Heat Moon
“Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James Michener
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
“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
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller (Spoken by the blind woman.)
“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” – Amelia E. Barr
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.” – Richard Burton
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart
“Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw
“I’d rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.” – Steve McQueen
“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” – Norma Shearer
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.” – Charles Kuralt
“No matter where you go, there you are.” – Buckaroo Banzi
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
“There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.” – Thomas Wolfe
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese