travel quotes

"Chase your bliss into the abyss and enjoy the journey." -- Joe Statile

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." -- Samuel Johnson

"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

"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

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home." -- James Michener

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends." -- Maya Angelou

"Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation." -- Elizabeth Drew

"Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station." -- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran