I have always loved quotes — those one or two sentences that can shift your perspective, inspire you to say yes to an adventure, or pull you out of a funk.
These are some of my favorite travel quotes by writers, travellers, fictional characters, and people who just had something inspiring to say.
Read MoreAfter reading only a few pages of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, I knew that I was hooked for life on the writing of this inspiring Brazilian novelist.
These are only a few of my favorite quotes, from some of his most popular books, that are sure to inspire you to take a risk on that next adventure!
Read More"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
—George Bernard Shaw
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it."
—John Steinbeck
“Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay your welcome. Keep your mind open and suck in every experience. And if it hurts you know what? It’s probably worth it.”
—Richard from the movie The Beach
"People travel to far away places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home"
—Dagobert D. Runes
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step"
—Lao Tzu
“I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, newborn baby — I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to — I just don’t care.”
"Not all those who wander are lost"
—J.R.R. Tolkien
"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect"
—Paul Theroux
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"
—Cesar Cruz
"To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world”
—Freya Stark
"A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving"
—Lao Tzu
“The boy knew a lot of people in the city. That was what made traveling appeal to him — he always made new friends, and he didn’t need to spend all of his time with them [to keep them]”
—from The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen"
—Benjamin Disraeli
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."
—Andy Warhol
"If at some point you don't ask yourself 'What have I gotten myself into?' then you're not doing it right"
—Roland Gau
“Twenty years from now you will more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
—Mark Twain
