10 Quotes on Conscious Travel

Here are 10 quotes meant to inspire you on what it is to travel consciously.

"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." - Anthony Bourdain

“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

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“Luxury travel may be glamorous, but not always meaningful. Local culture may not always be glamorous, but it’s always meaningful.” - Nyssa P. Chopra

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

“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

“It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mary Ritter Beard

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desa

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain