Traveling Quotes in Spanish

Whether you’re starting to plan a trip of a lifetime or you’re already on the road, quotes are a great way to get a dose of inspiration when the travel process gets frustrating.

Some milestones I had before starting my current year-long trip included figuring out how much it’d cost to travel, how to letting go of my belongings and trying to break free of a status quo mentality.

Along my travel journey, I’ve been at the crossroad between returning home or continuing to travel (I chose to travel longer). I’ve had my mental resilience and on a few rare moments I wondered why I left the comfort of my home in Toronto in the first place.

I just celebrated my one year travelversary two weeks ago in Chiang Mai, Thailand and here are some travel quotes that have inspired me or made me smile this past year around the world.

Top travel quotations and sayings

1. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
2. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. “If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.”
5. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” — Lao Tzu
6. Don’t be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go. — National Geographic’s Andrew Evans,
7. “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J. R. R. Tolkien
8. “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
9. “Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God.” – Kurt Vonnegut
10. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
11. “A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.”
    – Katharine Butler Hathaway
12. “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
13. “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal
14. “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
15. “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
16. “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper...