Famous quotes can be extremely inspiring. We all love reading and sharing them out with others. Travel quotes are not different. All the chapters of my travel memoir The Year I Became a Nomad start with a couple of inspiring travel quotes. In this slideshare I've written them over some of the photos I took during my long journey through Asia to create a visual presentation of each quote. I hope they inspire you to travel more.

1. Travel Quotes for the Adventure Traveler

2. "Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than 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

3. "He who would travel happily
must travel light."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

4. "A journey of thousand miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu

5. "A journey is like a marriage.
The certain way to be wrong is
to think you control it."
- John Steinbeck

6. "All journeys have secret destinations
of which the traveler is unaware."
- Martin Buber

7. "Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps.
The sleeper must be awaken."
- Frank Herbert

8. "I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder
than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything."
- Bill Bryson

9. "There are no foreign lands.
It is the traveler only who is foreign."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

10. "A traveler without observation
is a bird without wings."
- Saadi

11. "Though we travel to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we will not find it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. "The world is a book and
those who do not travel
read only one page."
- St. Augustine

13. "Traveling is like flirting with life.
It's like saying 'I would stay and love you,
but I have to go, this is my station'."
- Lisa St. Aubin de Téran

14. "A good traveler has no fixed plans
and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu

15. "The earth belongs to anyone who stops
for a moment, gazes, and goes on his way."
- Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

16. "Wandering re-establishes the original harmony
which once existed between man and the universe."
- Anatole France

17. "Not all who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

18. "To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one
of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
- Freya Stark

19. "Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness." - Ray Bradbury

20. "One's destination
is never a place,
but a new way of seeing things."
- Henry Miller

21. "Remember that happiness is a way of travel,
not a destination." - Roy M. Goodman

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

23. "Do not tell me how educated you are,
tell me how much you traveled."
- Muhammad

24. "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

25. "I travel a lot;
I hate having my life disrupted by routine."
- Caskie Stinnett

26. "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." - Seneca

27. "If you reject the food,
ignore the costumes,
fear the religion
and avoid the people,
you might better stay at home."
- James Michener

28. "The first condition of understanding
a foreign country is to smell it."
- Rudyard Kipling

29. "One always begins to forgive a place
as soon as it's left behind."
- Charles Dickens

30. "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

31. "A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles."
- Tim Cahill

32. "I travel not to
go anywhere,
but to go.
I travel for
travel's sake.
The great affair is
to move."
- Robert Louis
Stevenson

33. "Travel makes one modest.
You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
- Gustave Flaubert

34. "I'm not the same after having seen the moon
shine on the other side of the world."
- Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey

35. "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

36. "Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends,
but it is played out over and over again in the quietest chamber.
The mind can never break off from the journey."
- Pat Conroy

37. "Remembering that you are going to die one day is the best way
I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
- Steve Jobs

38. About to turn forty, Carlos Peñalba quits his senior position at a
financial software firm in New York City to travel through Asia
for a year. Although his main objective is to explore a continent
almost unknown to him, he also intends to use his journey to
fulfill his dream of becoming a writer and a photographer.
Carlos’s original plan would take him from Nepal to Japan, but
unexpected circumstances force him to alter his route and
extend his adventure to eighteen months. After trekking high
peaks, reaching remote cultures, having some interesting
encounters and taking up vipassana meditation, the end of his
long journey would bring him (where he less expects it)
something much more important than a new career.
A TRAVEL MEMOIR
"Out of Office... For Good"
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