Travel Quotes to Inspire You
It all begins with a good quote for an instagram post. Travel quotes are fun to pair with your IG account, but they also actually have a great deal to teach us. Here are some of my favorite travel quotes and lessons that I hope will inspire you to travel:
“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.”
Me, Iceland. PC: Ross Oscar Knight
“Paris is always a good idea.”
Kendra + me, Paris 2021. PC: Pierre Satin
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
Viñales, Cuba 2019. PC: Kelsey Schulz
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Cuba 2018 PC: Mhai Yoga
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Lauren Parker, Iceland. PC: Ross Oscar Knight
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” ”
Ashley and Heather, Havana. PC Kelsey Schulz 2019
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
Me. Mayan Clay Meditation. Tulum 2022.
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
Kim, Shelley, Lauren and Tascha. Iceland, Northern Lights. PC Ross Oscar Knight 2021.
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Tulum Zona Archeologica. 2022. PC Victoria Privette
“Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.”
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
Moonrise. Tulum. 2022.
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
Iceland, 2021. Photo by Ross Oscar Knight.
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.”
Borne, Barcelona, Spain.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Victoria and Kendra, post-ice bath. Tulum, 2022.
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
Jenn. Tulum, 2022. Photo by Victoria Privette.
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
Dominican Republic, 2021. Photo by Kelsey Schulz.
“The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.”
Dominican Republic, 2021. Photo by Kelsey Schulz.
“To travel is to live.”
Gran Cenote, Tulum. 2021. Photo by Victoria Privette
“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.”
Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii. Photo by Cara Griffin.
“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
Lauren. GeoSea, Husavik, Iceland. Photo by Ross Oscar Knight.
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
Maui, 2021. Photo by Cara Griffin.
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
Northern Iceland, 2021. Photo by Ross Oscar Knight.
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
Maui. Photo by Caitlin Grace Photo.
“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.”
Lindsay. Dominican Republic, 2020.
