Quotes to celebrate travel

Most people love to travel, and these wonderful worlds celebrate what it is completely, curated by the Readsaga review team.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. – Clifton Fadiman

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

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

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith

I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

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

A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni

A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

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