Rad Travel Quotes

“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do..."– Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” -?

“I am not the same having seen the moon rise on the other side of the world.”~Mary Ann Rademacher

My current favorite:

"If you arrive in a strange land,

bow

if the place is bizarre

bow
if the day is utter strangeness
surrender--
you are infinitely more peculiar"
-Orides Fontela

And a classic: “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac. Always love a good old friend.