1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka
2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. – Hilaire Belloc
3. Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
4. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
5. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart
6. It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
7. When a man is a traveler, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- Drew Bundini Brown
8. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy
9. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain
10. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde
11. There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson
12. I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
13 Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – Euripides
14. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train. – Oscar Wilde
16. A river cuts through a rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins
17. 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
18. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
19. It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be with most of us. – Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones
20 A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb
21. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller