Maybe I was born to be a traveler. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved the thought of exploring unfamiliar places and discovering new landscapes. The thrill of fitting all my clothes into a small backpack for summer vacations has always excited me. Whenever I can, I choose adventure. And when there’s none to be found, I create my own.
Below are some of my favorite travel quotes from various sources. Reading them has become one of my favorite pastimes—and probably why I can’t imagine staying in one place for too long. Read on… but don’t say I didn’t warn you about catching the travel bug! ^_^
“Quit Your Job, Buy a Ticket, Get a Tan, Fall in Love, Never Return!”
― Island Company
“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
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
― Anthony Bourdain
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
― Michael Palin
“If we were meant to stay in one place, w’d have roots instead of feet.”
― Rachel Wolchin
“Summer: hair gets lighter, skin gets darker, water gets warmer, drinks get colder, music gets louder, nights gets longer, life gets better.”
― Unknown
“All I really want to do is spend my life travelling the world, reading books that take my breath away, drinking all kinds of tea and occasionally write something. I mean, is that too much to ask for?”
“Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, you can’t always make memories.”
“Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri
“I travel for the same reason I breathe, because if I didn’t I would die.”
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. ”
― Agnes Repplier
“Twenty years from now you will be 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 harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown
“Of the gladdest moments in human life is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.”
― Richard Francis Burton
“My bank account may be empty but my mind is filled with travel memories.”
― Toni Alvarez