"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment."

- Hilaire Belloc


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"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware."

- Martin Buber


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"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it."

- Rosalia de Castro


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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

- Benjamin Disraeli


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"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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"Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps.
The sleeper must awaken."

- Frank Herbert


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"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled."

- Mohammed


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"That life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else."

- Vladimir Nabokov


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"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."

- Jawaharlal Nehru


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"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

- Anais Nin


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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust


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"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives,
and the serious part of frivolous ones."

- Anne Sophie Swetchine


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"Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey.
It will be the longest journey you have ever taken.
It is the journey to find yourself."

- Katherine Sharp


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"If you can wake up in a different place. If you can wake up in a different time. Why can't you wake up as a different person?"

- Chuck Palahniuk


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"....the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home."

- Paul Theroux


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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller


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"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

- Ursula K. LeGuin


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"Make voyages! Attempt them.... there's nothing else."

- Tennessee Williams


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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."

- Saint Augustine