Jan 7

Jan 7 Inspiring Travel Quotes

The old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words is very true; but sometimes short, yet poignant, quotes can strike at the heart of ideas just as simply and powerfully.

Every quarter we’ll be adding 13 more quotes until we have a whole year’s worth. Check back quarterly for travel inspired, thought provoking, timeless excerpts and quotes.

First Quarter

Week 1 - Henry Miller

Henry Miller quote - "One's destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things"

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Miller

Week 2 - Susan Heller

Susan Heller quote - "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money."

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” ~ Susan Heller

Week 3 - Oliver Wendel Holmes

Oliver Wendel Holmes quote - "A mind stretched by a new experience, can never go back to its old dimensions"

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience, can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wender Holmes

Week 4 - Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain quote - "Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, …

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

Week 5 - Confucius

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” - Confucius

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” ~ Confucius

Week 6 - F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald - "It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what changed is you."

“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what changed is you.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Week 7 - Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie quote - "People forget years and remember moments"

“People forget years and remember moments” ~ Ann Beattie

Week 8 - Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust quote - "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

Week 9 - Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway quote - "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end."

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end." ~ Ernest Hemingway

Week 10 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson quote - "Though we travel the world over, to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."

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

Week 11 - Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain quote - "Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of tethering in the unknown."

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of tethering in the unknown" ~ Anthony Bourdain

Week 12 - Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson quote - "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." - Robert Louis Stevenson

Week 13 - Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert quote - "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." ~ Gustave Flaubert

Second Quarter

Week 14 - Coming soon!

Check back at the beginning of the quarter for all the quotes that will be published that quarter.

Whether you travel abroad, locally or just look at your daily life with new eyes, we hope you find these quotes inspiring and/or thought provoking. Leave in the comments below your favorite quotes, we’d love to know what they are. Until next update, stay wild!