Inspirational Travel Quotes That Will Make You Pack Your Bags Now

Want to get a little travel inspiration? Check out some of my favorite travel quotes! Let me know which ones spoke to you.

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
— Saint Augustine
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
— Anita Desai
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Lao Tzu

“To travel is to live.”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”
— Oscar Wilde (attributed)
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
— Gustave Flaubert
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.”
— Chief Seattle (attributed)
“The journey not the arrival matters.”
— T.S. Eliot

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.”
— Lovelle Drachman
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— André Gide
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you…”
— Anthony Bourdain
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
— Aesop

“He who would travel happily must travel light.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”
— Lawrence Block
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
— Seneca
“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”
— Sir Richard Burton
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
— Anonymous (often misattributed to various authors)

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
— Dalai Lama (attributed, though not officially verified)
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
— Ibn Battuta
“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.”
— Jaime Lyn Beatty
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
— Helen Keller
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
— Agnes Repplier
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
— Paulo Coelho
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
— Rumi
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.”
— Anatole France

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.”
— Freya Stark
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.”
— John Steinbeck
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”
— Clint Borgen
“Travel teaches toleration.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.”
— Eugene Fodor

“Where you lead, I will follow.”
— Carole King, “Gilmore Girls” Theme Song
“You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
— Anonymous
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
— Confucius
“Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”
— Unknown
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
— Susan Sontag

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