Travel Quotes

Life’s journey on earth is the only sacred travel.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find the right paths for your journey. Travel along these paths to your final destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go.

~ Shannon Ables

You have to know where you are going to reach your destination.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.

~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

~ Ernesto Che Guevara

I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

~ Vicki Alayne Bradley

I recounted my adventures, just as I recount them to you now. I told him about Bombay, which glowed in the night like a lamp. I told him about Bangalore, about the beaches of Goa, of Pune, where elaborate retirement homes and ashrams ringed India’s ferociously competitive colleges, and liberals went to experience transcendence without getting their feet dirty. I told him of places you could expand your mind and still be within walking distance of the nearest McDonalds.

~ Yudhanjaya Wijeratne

It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Some may decide to build homes somewhere new, and others have homes that await them. Like a break in a relationship, we simply needed some time apart to be better for the future.

~ Lauren Klarfeld

I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.

~ Alison Singh Gee

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

~ Sol Luckman

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.

~ E.m. Forster

How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls Come through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.

~ E.m. Forster

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

~ Jessica-Lynn Barbour

it would be fairer to say I have traveled widely, without ever leaving my own native soil, I've traveled, one might say, through literature, each time I've opened a book the pages echoed with a noise like the dip of a paddle in midstream, and throughout my odyssey I never crossed a single border, and so never had to produce a passport, I'd just pick a destination at random, setting my prejudices firmly to one side, and be welcomed with open arms in places swarming with weird and wonderful characters

~ Alain Mabanckou

O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do unpleasant things, or more than grim tasks one must perform at school and at work? Is life more than being entertained by literature, wise man, or more than traveling from one place to another, suffering from poor emotional health and pondering the people one loves? And what about those who lead a life of mystery? And the mysteries of life? And, wise man, what about the overall feeling of doom that one cannot ever escape no matter what one does, and miscellaneous things that I have neglected to mention in specific?

~ Lemony Snicket

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

~ Rachel Lewis

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

~ Rachel Lewis

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

~ Rachel Lewis

I travel, always arriving in the same place.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Sleeping in the simple small cottage rather than hotels... and under the billion stars is one of the breathtaking experience... pause, breath, nothingness moment is what gives meaning to my busy existence, that life is felt in silence, in that moment when what you see before you can no longer be conveyed with words...

~ El Fuego

Words are whips in the wind traveling between lovers.

~ Faith Tilley Johnson

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

~ Wilkie Collins

The face of self-pity was universally understood.

~ Vann Chow

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

~ Sylvia Plath

That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of the river, long and wet and cold, the aunt looked from her windows to the walls around her and imagined another winter inside them. She began to see the world as a bird sees bars, and she scratched her arms beneath her sleeves.

~ Shannon Hale

You don’t need to be anywhere, God can take you where you have to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I can’t find my way, I pray to God to show me the way. And then, He creates the right pathways.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.

~ Jeremy Glass

The times on the open road with all the unknown ahead were the times I was happiest and most secure, with people who knew our core and lived solely for the purpose of unmediated experiences and love, from which purpose itself is born. Not the distant idea of life, love and purpose dirtied by constructs.

~ Jackie Haze

Life is a sacred journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

~ Ken Poirot

We only live once, so why not do something different?

~ Dayna Lovely

...because life is too exciting not to share.

~ Dayna Lovely

Life vicariously through yourself.

~ Dayna Lovely

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever.

~ Steven J. Carroll

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.

~ Jodi Hills