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If you’ve come to this article then we don’t have to tell you how beautiful and magical travel is. You already know that. You’ve already stepped foot on a land unknown, you’ve already shared laughter with strangers and broken bread with new friends. You are familiar with the wind in your hair and the weightless sun on your skin – it’s the same as back home, after all. So, probably, you’ve come here in search of quotes about travelling with friends so you can reminisce and maybe inspire your next adventure.
Here are a few of the best travel quotes for you.
Travel quotes about travelling with friends:
1. “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – Winnie the Pooh
2. “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.” – William Butler Yeats
3. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine
4. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
5. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish Proverb
6. “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” – Anaïs Nin
7. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma and Louise
8. “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
9. “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” – The Goofy Movie
10. “In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz
11. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
12. “Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach
13. “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.” – Miriam Adeney
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Quotes about travel
1. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
2. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkein
3. “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
4. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
5. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin
6. “I soon realized 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
7. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury
8. “Too often … I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.” – Louis L’Amour
9. “I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin
10. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block
11. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle
12. “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
13. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
15. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, 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
16. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” – Pico Iyer
17. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
18. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
19. “I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca
20. “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
21. “There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.” – Chuck Palahniuk
