You should know by now that we have a passion for travel at Postconsumers, especially when it’s eco-friendly and planet-conscious travel. But even we sometimes need to get re-inspired about travel. After all, as much as we love it we can get overwhelmed with life, finances and the general stresses and responsibilities of the world. When that happens, we like to do one of two things. Sometimes we surf the internet for inspiring travel pictures (yes, the internet can be used for good). And sometimes we revisit our favorite travel quotes. To get you inspired to travel (hopefully in a planet conscious way), we’re launching our go-to twenty-five favorite travel quotes for you.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” Mark Twain
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” St. Augustine
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” Paul Fussell
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” Jack Kerouac
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” Lin Yutang
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” Samuel Johnson
“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
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller
“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” Moslih Eddin Saadi
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Freya Stark
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” Mark Twain
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” Miriam Beard
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” Martin Buber
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” Jawaharial Nehru
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” Paul Theroux
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” Tim Cahill
“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
“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” Pat Conroy
“Not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” Aldous Huxley
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” Freya Stark
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” Rudyard Kipling
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” Mark Jenkins
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