John Steinbeck

I think I have no “place” home. Home is people and where you work well. I have homes everywhere and many I have not even seen yet. This is perhaps why I am restless. I haven’t seen all of my homes.

August Strindberg

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

David Brenner

It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.

Lawrence Durrell

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Lawrence Durrell

Journeys are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.

Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, “I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station”

Ryū Murakami

Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.

Haruki Murakami

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Moorish Proverb

He who does not travel does not know the value of men.

George Moore

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Glenn Clark

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.

Euripides

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes, it’s only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.

Kori Schake

The United States has never been as good as its billing and is—thankfully—almost always better than its government.

John Hope Franklin

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Shannon O’Donnell

Had you told me connection would make all the difference when I left to travel, I would have bought what you were selling. It makes sense. And it makes sense that travel is the ideal way to practice radical connection — travel friendships are intense and fast. It’s completely normal to meet a new friend and spend the next week eating three meals a day … [ Read more ]

Hans Christian Andersen

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.

Becky Chambers

I’m an observer, not a conqueror. I have no interest in changing other worlds to suit me. I choose the lighter touch: changing myself to suit them.

Henry Boye

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

Tahir Shah

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?