The Most Inspiring Travel Quotes

[Kathy F.]

I know which of these I've printed out and posted above my computer.
Which one/s speak to you?

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[bystander]

"My silence to any, who abroad hath been"
The Will, John Donne

Only joking!

 

[MichaelSG]

My favorite: "Life is a journey. When you travel, you live twice." (graffiti on the wall between two buildings on the Caminho Portugese, just before the final climb into Santiago)

 

[wayfarer]

This is the one that caught my eye.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
James Michener.

 

[northerngirl]

"You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path.
Ask where the old reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessings and follow it. If you do you will find rest for your soul" Jer 6:16
I love it

 

[mspath]

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

Gautama Buddha

 

[la tulipe]

I know which of these I've printed out and posted above my computer.
Which one/s speak to you?

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Some of my favorites: "The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things maybe, to see them as they are." Samuel Johnson. "A traveler without observation is a bird without wings." Moslih Eddin Saadi.

 

[ricitosdeplata]

I Agee with wayfarer : “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
James Michener.
An here are 2 quotes i like:
Somewhere between the the start of the trail and the end is the mystery of why we walk.
-??
Me thinks the moment my feet began to move my thoughts began to flow.
-Henry David Thoreau

 

[amorfati1]

I know which of these I've printed out and posted above my computer.
Which one/s speak to you?

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here is one i reflect upon not often enough

“The moon & sun are eternal travelers. Even the years wander on. A lifetime adrift in a boat, or in old age leading a tired horse into the years, every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
From the earliest times there have always been some who have perished along the road. Still I have always been drawn by windblown clouds into dreams of a lifetime of wandering.”

~ Matsuo Basho a 17th century Zen Abbot….

 

[Former member 19626]

TRAVEL, like life, is best understood backward but must be experienced forward.
Eric Weiner


....Attribution added

 

[bystander]

"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.”
Bruce Chatwin

And if I could I would post the whole of the 1859 First Edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
It is much deeper than most people give it credit for.

And to lighten that comment:

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
Noël Coward

 

[mikevasey]

But whenever I have kept flowing, I have found my natural state of being, beyond the chains of mental abstractions. At those times I have felt like water; no specific colour, no particular taste, no solid structure, but natural and fluid. Satish Kumar

 

[Former member 19626]

"I have long believed that any man interested in either the mystic or the romantic aspects of life must sooner or later define his attitude concerning Spain."
James A. Michener "Iberia" 1968

 

[bystander]

More:

"Tourists don't know where they've been, travellers don't know where they're going,"
Paul Theroux

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness."
Mark Twain

 

[la tulipe]

Just open an old journal I had while volunteering in Asia, and found these quotes:
" Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet." Thich Nhat Hanh.
"He who does not travel does not know the value of men." Moorish proverb.
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." St Augustine.

 

[naplesdon]

I have one framed along with a photo from 1989. You'll have to wait until I return to Florida in November to learn what it says but it is quite sage.

 

[jsalt]

“A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men’s; then, to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.” Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, Act IV Scene I.

 

[jsalt]

“Romance is always over the next hill; till it’s back at a waterhole 40 years behind.” Ernestine Hill, “The Northern Territory”.

 

[amorfati1]

“A traveller! By my faith, you have great reason to be sad: I fear you have sold your own lands to see other men’s; then, to have seen much, and to have nothing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands.” Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, Act IV Scene I.

Whoa - that IS bulls-eye ! thank you so much for sharing this.
my life's tale in one sentence ... by shakespeare, no less

 

[grayland]

"If you come to a fork in the road...Take it"
Yogi Barra

 

[jsalt]

"If you come to a fork in the road...Take it"
Yogi Barra

"If you come to a fork in the road . . . eat salad." Juicy Lucy cafeteria.

 

[jsalt]

“Each of us has to discover his own path – of that I am sure. Some paths will be spectacular and others peaceful and quiet – who is to say which is the most important?” Sir Edmund Hillary, “Nothing Venture Nothing Win”.

 

[pilgrim b]

"in order to go to what you do not know, you must go by a way you do not know," St. John of the Cross

In Spain , a pilgrim is never made to feel a stranger……no one questions his intention or his sacrifice. By his/her walking stick, scallop shell, and backpack he/she is known and respected, greeted and received as a blessing" David Loxterkamp Catholics to the Bone

 

[scruffy1]

The title of a very uninspiring book "I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago" in the original "Ich bin dann mal veg" Hape Kerkeling. Keep on Truckin also works.
R. Crumb of course.

 

[KinkyOne]

"Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.”
Bruce Chatwin

And if I could I would post the whole of the 1859 First Edition of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
It is much deeper than most people give it credit for.

And to lighten that comment:

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
Noël Coward

Wow, that's great, two authors I like very much. Thanks!

 

[KinkyOne]

Here's one not so sophisticated:
"I train for the Camino only after before."

 

[rosalind85]

Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances, that's not for human beings. Move within, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

I found this quote during my Camino in Castrojeriz at the beautiful Hospit del Alma. A wonderful stop along the way. No matter where we travel its our inner journey that matters most. Finding this quote was one of my many Camino gifts. Words I try to live by everyday and will carry with me on my next Camino.

 

[JackCamino]

"The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see". - Gilbert K. Chesterton

 

[Scott Sweeney]

"Blessed is the God who is within the pilgrims on our journey." unknowm

All-powerful God,
Be with your servants on this pilgrimage
and guide their way in accord with your will.
unknown

 

[Tincatinker]

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot

True journey is return - Ursula Le Guin

 

[Walking by faith]

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

Just one of many great thoughts you will find in books of Marcel Proust .

 

[bystander]

This quote I jotted down in my common place book some years ago.
However I know that, strictly speaking, this is not a quote about travelling but I post it here in the hope that anybody feeling lonely en Camino soon enjoys solitude.

"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude the glory of being alone."
Paul Tilich

 

[SanFranLinda]

Twenty years from now you will more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the one you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

 

[DMG]

'The Essential Tao of Travel', from Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel:

1. Leave home
2. Go alone
3. Travel light
4. Bring a map
5. Go by land
6. Walk across a national frontier
7. Keep a journal
8. Read a novel that has no relation to the place you’re in
9. If you must bring a cell phone, avoid using it
10. Make a friend

Easily applied to a Camino!