“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, goodreads.com
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”— Pico Iyer, goodreads.com
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”— Charlotte Eriksson, goodreads.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, goodreads.com
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god damn mountain.”— Jack Kerouac, goodreads.com
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”— Ibn Battuta, goodreads.com
“Travelling isn’t always about running away from things, sometimes it’s about running into what you truly want.”— American Nomad On Twitter, youbackpacking.com
“We were bored, we were restless, we longed to be seized by any whim or passion and follow it to the farthest reaches of our natures. We wanted to live – to die – to burst into flame – to be transformed into angels or explosions. Only the mundane offended us, as if we secretly feared it was our desti…”— Steven Millhauser, amazon.com
“Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That's…”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“You’re the person I want to dive headfirst into life with. When I go out on the weekends, it is you I want shutting down the club with me. When I plan an adventure it is you I want holding the map. When I speculate about the future, I want to see you in every outlandish fantasy I plan for myself.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“So pluck up your courage and take that risk! Add another story to the book of your life. Even if it doesn’t go the way you planned or wanted, you’ll still learn from it.”— Neil Patrick Harris, amazon.com
“I didn't say no, because between safety and adventure I choose adventure.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”— Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca
“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”— Josh Gates, amazon.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”— JK Rowling, amazon.com
“Freedom continues to be the thing I prize most in the world. Of course, this has led me to drink wines I did not like, to do things I should not have done and which I will not do again; it has left scars on my body and on my soul, it has meant hurting certain people, although I have since asked thei…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com