This page is a work in progress. As I wander along and find other adventure quotes, The Wandering “DYO” will be its home. These quotes would always remind me that I travel to learn and grow, to assimilate new things, to internalize and to immerse, to challenge myself or my companion(s), to stretch our limits out of our comfort zones and to appreciate a world even if it’s not our own.. The last 50 quotes are originally found here.
- "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." -Marcel Prous
- "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. "
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) - "I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them." -Mark Twain
- “If you’re brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting — which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments — and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue; and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher; and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love, (2010)
- “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, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” -P.Iyer
- “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
- “You must get as much as you can from any journey, because – in the end – the journey is all you have. It doesn’t matter what you accumulate in terms of material wealth, because you are going to die anyway, so why not live?” – Any Journey is a Pilgrimage, Paolo Coelho’s Blog
- When you get older, you’ll be wiser but also too lazy to get out of your comfort zone. So travel as much as you can while you are young.. Miriam Santiago
- A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.’ ~Laozi
- “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming “WOO HOO what a ride!”" – Author Unknown
- “Travel teaches tolerance” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” - Rene’ Descartes
- “Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.” – Jan Myrdal
- “I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.” – Shirley MacLaine
- “He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.”- Chinese Proverb
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck - “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end”- Ursula LeQuin
- “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustave Flaubert
- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
- “No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.”- Jewish Proverb
- “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be” - Douglas Adams
- “Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age.” – Jose Rizal from Los Viajes
- “Be an explorer. The universe is filled with wonder and magical things. ” – Flavia
- “Don’t rely on others to show you the way, carry your own map.” -David Baird
- “The road to success is wherever people need another road. ” - Robert Brault
- “You only live once. ” - James Brown
- “Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone” - Erma Bombeck
- “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieo
- “I didn’t say no because between safety and adventure I choose adventure. ” - Craig Ferguson
- ”If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there” – George Harrison
- “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
- “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
- “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Curiousity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last” -Samuel Johnson
- “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
- “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
- “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
- “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
- “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
- “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
- “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
- 12. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
- “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
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
- ″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
- “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
- “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
- “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
- “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
- “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
- “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
- “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
- “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
- “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
- “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
- “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
- “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
- “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
- “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
- “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
- “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
- “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France
- “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
- “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
- “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
- “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
- “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
- “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
- “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
- “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
- “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
- “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
- “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
