Roman Payne

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

Sue Fitzmaurice

You must go on adventures to find out where you belong.

Oprah Winfrey

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.

Alain de Botton

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Nikki Hodgson

Traveling is a lesson in being uncomfortable, a perpetual exercise in humility. Every moment is a battle to improve and push back against the fear of failure, full of small victories, countless mortifying opportunities to laugh at yourself.

Nikki Hodgson

Afraid of living a life dictated by my fear of failure, I wanted to push myself out of my shell, experience everything, speak multiple languages, open my eyes to the geographic and cultural wonders of the world. I was in search of something I was certain I could never find at home.

The Dhammapada

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.

Arab Proverb

Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.

Arab proverb

It is not the road ahead that wears you out – It is the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Give the face of earth around
And the road before me.
Wealth I seek not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Brendan van Son

The road is cruel sometimes; it’s a constant reminder of what you don’t have, or what you could have.

Garrison Keillor

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed… And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all … [ Read more ]

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

Paul Theroux

The best of travel seems to exist outside of time, as though the years of travel are not deducted from your life.

Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Paul Theroux

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.