Who doesn’t like a good travel quote now and then? Well, I do, and here are some of my favorites, in no particular order. Of course, some are not strictly only about travel, but can also be applied to the more general ‘life journey’, or the other way around.

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Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

— Erma Bombeck

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

— Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

— Charles Bukowski

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.

— Nicolas Bouvier, The Way of the World

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

— Kate Douglas Wiggin, New Chronicles of Rebecca

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

— Anthony Doerr

Books are a world of adventure you can hold in your hands.

If you only walk on sunny days, you will never reach your destination.

— Paulo Coelho

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

— Helen Keller
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Any great quotes missing? Please share you favorite ones in the comment section below and I’ll add the best ones to this post.