2. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page. – St Augustine

3. Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take. — Sheridan Anderson

4. There’s no way you were just born to pay bills and die – travel! – Unknown

5. Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien

6. You are confined only by the walls you build yourself – Andrew Murphy

7. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us – Unknown

8. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal. – Paulo Coelho

9. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before – Dalai Lama

10. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G K Chesterton

11. Life is an adventure. Dare it… – Mother Theresa

12. Fernweh (n.) – an ache for distant places; the craving for travel

13. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way – Carl Sagan

14. Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave the trail – Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries – Aldous Huxley

16. It’s better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times – Asian Proverb

17. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone – Neale Donald Walsch

18. A ship in a harbour is safe…but that’s not what ships are built for. – John A Shedd

19. Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits – Pico Iyer

20. Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures – Lovelle Drachman

21. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving – Terry Prachett

22. Certainly 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

23. WORK.TRAVEL.SAVE.REPEAT – BackHackers

24. In life it’s not where you go, it’s who you go with – Charles Schulz

25. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore – Andre Gide

26. Sunset is still my favourite colour and rainbow is second – Mattie Stepanele

27. The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands – Sir Richard Burton

28. No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be – Church Thompson

29. I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world – Mary Anne Radmacher

30. To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world – Freya Stark

31. To live would be an awfully big adventure – J M Barrie

32. The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have – Anna Quindlen

33. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all of one’s lifetime – Mark Twain

34. The use of travelling is to regulate imagination with reality and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are – Samuel Johnson

35. Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories – Ray Bradbury

36. 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’s taken for granted – Bill Bryson

37. The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends – Shirley MacLaine

38. Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to – Alan Keightley

39. It is not down in any map; true places never are – Herman Melville

40. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow mindedness…and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts – Mark Twain

41. If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be – Maya Angelou

42. Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever. – Unknown

43. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind – Marty Rubin

44. I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it – Unknown

45. Sometimes the further around the world you go, the more you feel at home – BackHackers

46. Don’t listen to what they say, go see – Chinese Proverb

47. Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it – Rick Warren

48. The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion – Paulo Coelho

49. You must be the change you wish to see in the world – Gandhi

50. Don’t dream. Do. – BackHackers

51. Sometimes you have to join the rat race to realise how much you don’t belong there – BackHackers

52. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness – Unknown

53. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough – Mae West

54. The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life – Agnes Repplier

55. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign – Robert Louis Stephenson

56. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home – Dagobert D Runes

57. Travelling 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

58. A traveller without observation is a bird without wings – Moslih Eddin Saadi

59. 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

60. 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

61. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony between man and the universe – Anatole France

62. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterday’s on the road – William Least-Heat Moon

63. I soon realised 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

64. 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 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

65. Travel teaches you to appreciate. Your loved ones, near or far, the reality of your dreams, the world and it’s people in all its beautiful bittersweet glory – BackHackers

66. The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it – Rudyard Kipling

67. 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

68. A wise traveller never despises his own country – Carlo Goldoni / Pamela Goldoni

69. To leave one’s country is not a rejection of that country. More an act of longing to see new sands, smell new places and feel new things. And in between rejoice in the comfort of home – which can never be replaced or conquered – BackHackers

70. Travel is rebellion in its purest form. We follow our heart, we free ourselves of labels, we lose control willingly, we trade a role for reality, we love the unfamiliar, we trust strangers, we own only what we can carry, we search for better questions not answers, we truly graduate, we sometimes choose to never come back. – Unknown

71. To travel is to choose not the flat packed life, but to create your own path filled with an endless desire to see more. – BackHackers

72. To travel is to ensure you never become narrow-minded. You are always learning more and questioning everything. – BackHackers

73. How boring the world must be when you’ll know where you’ll be tomorrow – BackHackers

74. The trouble is you think you have time – Buddha / Jack Kornfield

75. You’ll never do it tomorrow if you have a reason not to do it today – BackHackers

76. I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go. – Anthony Bourdain

77. Travelling is about finding those things you never knew you were looking for. – Unknown

78. Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry – Jack Kerouac

79. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu

80. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow – Anita Desai

81. Now more than ever do I realise that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. – Isabelle Eberhardt

82. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

83. I read, I travel, I become – Derek Walcott

84. Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it, there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars. – Jack Kerouac

85. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead. – Ma Jian

86. I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side. – Roman Payne

87. I dislike feeling at home when I’m abroad. – George Bernard Shaw

88. Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

89. The journey not the arrival matters. – T S Eliot

90. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Cesare Pavese

91. I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. – Caskie Stinnett

92. Travel teaches toleration. – Benjamin Disraeli

93. Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness. – Ray Bradbury

94. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. – Tom Stoppard

95. I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can be anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

96. Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon

97. I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia De Castro

98. Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – Peter Hoeg

99. Adventure is worthwhile – Aristotle

100. No matter where you go, there you are. – Buckaroo Banzai

101. It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. – Ernest Hemingway