If your last “vacation” comprised of running errands and catching up on laundry, it’s time to plan some real time off. Use these 25 travel quotes to inspire your next trip:
1. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
2. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
3. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
4. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett
5. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
6. “Too often… I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour
7. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw
8. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb
9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
10. “People don’t take trips… trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
11. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
12. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley
13. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
14. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry
15. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
16. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
17. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
18. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
19. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous
20. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
21. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
22. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
23. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
24. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain
25. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide