Travel Journey Quotes:

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

- Pat Conroy

source: FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Dec 19, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Travel, Struggle, Journey, Journey And Destination, My Journey

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Travel, Solo Travel, Soul Life

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Journey And Destination, My Journey, Funny Journey, Great Travel, Travel Journey

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Adventure, Solo Travel, Inspirational Adventure

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

- Alton Brown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Solo Travel, Soul Life

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

- Rumi

topic: Travel, Optimistic, Vacation, Solo Travel, Journey Inspirational

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

- Cesare Pavese

topic: Dream, Travel, Home, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Witty, Travel, Work, Solo Travel, Inspiration To Others

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

- Eudora Welty

source: Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.76, Harvard University Press

topic: Life, Travel, Inspiration, Inspirational Adventure Time, Travel The World

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Travel, Inspirational Adventure, Photography And Travel

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

- Lin Yutang

topic: Beautiful, Travel, Home, Journey Inspirational, Inspirational Vacation

I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.

- Harun Yahya

topic: Inspirational, Success, Travel, Journey Inspirational, Great Travel

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Change, Travel, Life Changing, Inspirational Adventure, Time And Change

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Faith, Strong, Kings, Inspiring Movie, Travel Light

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

- Dagobert D. Runes

source: Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

topic: Travel, Home, People, Nomadic, Travel The World

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Country, Travel, Memories, Eat Your Heart, Inspirational Vacation

NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Travel, Solo Travel, Journey Alone, Journey And Destination, Life Journey

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Country, Travel, People, South America, Inspirational Adventure

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

topic: Travel, Hate, Memorable, Inspirational Adventure, Inspirational Vacation

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

- Danny Kaye

topic: Travel, Journey, Solo Travel, Journey And Destination, Journey Inspirational

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

- Matsuo Basho

source: Matsuo Basho (2014). “Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages”, p.31, Stone Bridge Press, Inc.

topic: Nature, Home, Journey, Journey Home, Journey Inspirational

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

topic: Motivational, Graduation, Travel, Solo Travel, Discovering Yourself

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Arriving, Journey And Destination, Journey Home

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

- Edith Wharton

topic: Inspirational, Travel, People, Kind People, Foreign Travel

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

- Liberty Hyde Bailey

topic: Traveler, Travel Journey, Traveling Alone

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

- T. S. Eliot

source: Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Journey And Destination, Journey Of Self Discovery

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Struggle, Years, Journey And Destination, My Journey, Funny Journey

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

- William Hazlitt

topic: Wise, Country, Travel, Powerful Countries, Roads And Journeys

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Travel, Soul Life, Journey Inspirational

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Journey, Inspirational Vacation, Nomad

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

- Graham Lowe

topic: Sports, Hate, Team, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

- Paul Theroux

source: Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Travel, Adventure, Journey, Solo Travel, Journey And Destination

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Positive, Travel, Journey Of Self Discovery, Life Going On

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

- Andre Gide

topic: Life, Travel, Adventure, Inspirational Adventure Time, Outdoor Adventure

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

- Diane Arbus

source: Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

topic: Life, Photography, Nature, Inspirational Photography, Travel Journey

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

topic: Travel, Home, Journey, Fetters, Adventure And Life

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

- Tim Cahill

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Journey, Travel Journey

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

- Carol Lynn Pearson

topic: Sports, Veterans Day, Travel, Memorial Day Heroes, Veterans Day Remembrance

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

- Carl Sandburg

source: Incidentals (1907) p. 8

topic: Funny, Life, Motivational, Journeys And Paths, Funny Motivational

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

- Christopher McCandless

topic: Life, Motivational, Travel, Joy Of Living, Inspirational Adventure Time

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

- Martin Buber

source: Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.47, Princeton University Press

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Fun, Journey And Destination, Journey Inspirational

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Country, Travel, Hippie, Inspiration To Others, Inspirational Adventure Time