Travel Quotes

Possibly in the lobby she saw someone who reminded her too much of herself (that can happen to inexperienced travelers). Or worse. That no one there reminded her of anyone she ever knew.

~ Richard Ford

Where you travel to, I would love to receive a beautiful postcard.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Time define sacred events.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh, well, it might look like a patterned world, laid out in prim design, but to those living there it could never be so simple. They were as alive as she: that old peasant contriving to outwit the cold; that woman anxiously counting her comical flock lest one goose escape her vigilance; all those who slept, or toiled, or loved under the low-hung roofs or the sharp turrets. Those people out there, if they caught sight of her own face pressed close to the window pane, might be speculating about her. To them she was part of the pattern of the lumbering train with its trail of smoke and little boxlike carriages. Perhaps they envied her, riding at ease to distant Paris. How little they knew of that! How little she herself know what awaited her at the end of the journey!

~ Rachel Field

It does not matter when you begin and end the journey. What matters is your willpower to begin and ability to complete the sacred journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself.Individually, inspired, and imaginative.

~ Anna Asche

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The French don't snack. They will tear off the endo of a fres baguette (which, if it's warm, it's practically impossible to resist) and eat it as they leave the boulangerie. And that's usually all you will see being consumed on the street. Compare that with the public eating and drinking that goes on in America: pizza, hot dogs, nachos, tacos, heroes, potato chips, sandwiches, jerricans of coffee, half-gallon buckets of Coke (Diet, of cours) and heaven knows what else being demolished on the hoof, often on the way to the aerobic class.

~ Peter Mayle

Every travel is sacred.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are those who travel but never really arrive. Those who visit a place but never know the people. Travel is so much more when you get closer to life and how it is lived here, wherever here may be. I am moving into the unknown to come into being at home wherever I find myself. Individually, inspired, and imaginative.

~ Anna Asche

May you walk on the path of light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you walk on sacred-path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We saw beautiful landscapes on the journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But you've looked forward to this trip for so long.And now I won't have it to look forward to any longer.

~ Ashley Warlick

If a local doesn't have to pay it, there's a way for traveler's to get around it.

~ Russell Hannon

The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say Gusty Winds May Exist. This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.

~ Chuck Klosterman

The day, like all good days, passed far too quickly.

~ S.a. Tawks

She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.

~ S.a. Tawks

Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel.

~ S.a. Tawks

I'd gotten on the piss and it had kicked me the fuck off. Hard.

~ S.a. Tawks

Besides, if it was the wrong choice, what difference was one more bad decision going to make?

~ S.a. Tawks

Your choices can only be limited by your mind.

~ S.a. Tawks

Don't just hope, dear. Plan and do. Only reserve hope for the things you cannot control.

~ S.a. Tawks

Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.

~ S.a. Tawks

You need a break every once in a while to enjoy the everyday and you need the everyday to enjoy the break you take every once in a while.

~ S.a. Tawks

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

~ S.a. Tawks

God will make straight our paths.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May God point the right road for your journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel steadily in your define path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel on your define path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the traveler knows the details of the journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God will make straight my path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Lord point the right path for me to walk on it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.

~ S.a. Tawks

Perhaps it is true that at base we readers are dissatisfied people, yearning to be elsewhere, to live vicariously through words in a way we cannot live directly through life. Perhaps we are the world's great nomads, if only in our minds...I am the sort of person who prefers to stay at home, surrounded by family, friends, familiarity, books...It turns out that when my younger self thought of taking wing, she wanted only to let her spirit soar. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

~ Anna Quindlen

As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diversity will have much to say about whether we will in the end be able to rise successfully to the great challenges we face today.

~ Dan Smith

You have not lived until you have fled a city in a country where you do not speak the language in the middle of the night.

~ Ken Poirot

Every spot on earth is particular, detailed, and incomprehensibly complex.

~ Jane Smiley

Boredom presents a very real, if insidious peril. To quote Blaine Harden from the Washington post:“Boredom kills, and those it does not kill, it cripples, and those it does not cripple, it bleeds like a leech, leaving its victims pale, insipid, and brooding. Examples abound...Rats kept in comfortable isolation quickly become jumpy, irritable, and aggressive. Their bodies twitch, their tails grow scaly. The backcountry traveler, then, in addition to developing such skills as the use of a map and compass, or the prevention and treatment of blisters, must prepare mentally and materially to cope with boredom, lest his tail grow scaly.

~ Jon Krakauer