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65 Inspiring & Uplifting Travel Alone Quotes for Solo Travel

When you’re on the road solo or planning to travel alone, quotes can help to inspire and uplift you. These 65 beautiful solo travel quotes from literature, pop culture and history make the perfect solo travel captions for social media.

You only need to search the internet to see there are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling out there. Solo travel quotes have a special ingredient – not only can they ignite wanderlust and stoke passion for the great unknown, they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to a solo traveller who is facing the world alone.

Solo travel is a life-changing experience . As with all travel, it’s often difficult to find the right words to describe your trip, or to convey how travel has altered your life once you get back home.

To give your confidence and boost and help you share your solo travel experience with the world, I’ve curated this epic list of 65 meaningful and insightful travel alone quotes.

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. However you choose to use these solo travel quotes, they are guaranteed to inspire and delight!

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Short and sweet solo travel quotes

Short travel alone quotes are perfect for social media, including solo travel announcements (that exciting moment when you make your trip official!), or your first travel solo travel update from the road.

These popular and not-so-famous quotations beautifully capture what it’s like to travel alone, with only yourself for company.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”

– Storm Jameson

“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.”

– Hannah Arendt

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”

– Isabelle Eberhardt

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.”

– Debasish Mridha

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.”

– Gina Greenlee

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”

– John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!”

– Ken Poirot

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

– Maxwell Maltz

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.”

– Paul Cezanne

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

– Henry David Thoreau

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”

– Mandy Hale

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”

– Diane Von Furstenberg

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”

– Daphne Du Maurier

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.”

– Timi Nadela

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.”

– Aisha Mirza

“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.”

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”

– Paul Theroux

“I used to be a pedestrian before, now I am the rider on the same road.”

– Piyush Paudyal

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

– Anaïs Nin

Motivational quotes for planning a solo trip

When you’re planning to visit a new country or a foreign city by yourself for the first time, the hardest part can be finding the inner courage to pack your backpack and make your solo travel dreams a reality.

These travel alone quotes speak to the very heart of solo travel – the push and pull between indecision , wanting to do the right thing while also finding freedom and empowering yourself to spread your wings.

You may feel nervous – that’s totally normal – but have faith that a well-planned solo journey is almost always a step in the right direction.

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”

– Erol Ozan

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”

– Nitin Namdeo

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.”

– Anthon St. Maarten

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”

– Holly Morris

“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

– Gael Attal

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– Mark Twain

Poetic quotes about solo travel

These longer solo travel quotes are nothing short of art.

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendour and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.”

– Kilroy J. Oldster

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”

– Mitali Meelan

“It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… “Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” 

– Alain de Botton

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.”

– Micheline Jean Louis

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.”

– David Baldacci

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”

Solo female travel quotes

Solo female travel is becoming more and more popular. I’ve done a few solo trips in recent years, and it never ceases to amaze me how different my travel experience is when I’m alone rather than with my partner or friends.

These quotations capture the independent spirit of solo female travellers.

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.”

– Nico J. Genes

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

– Lalah Delia

Quotes that prove solo travel makes you stronger

Solo travel often starts with taking a leap of faith. If it’s your first solo trip, you must actively work on believing in yourself and trusting your instincts.

Sometimes in travel (and in life), the only certainty is uncertainty. Things won’t always be easy, things wont’ always go to plan. Barriers and hurdles are almost guaranteed – but these experiences are likely to make you stronger and more resilient.

These travel alone quotes are all about testing your limits.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

– Neale Donald Walsch

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”

“It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”

– Mae Chevrette

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”

– Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.”

– David Cuschieri

Quotations that prove solo travel changes your perspective

I’ve never met anyone who decided to solo travel and came back the same person. Travel changes you – that’s undeniable – and often travel alone can shape you in ways you never could have anticipated.

One of the greatest lessons travel can teach you is to be humble. Travel helps you find your place in the world. A solo trip can give you the tools you need to tackle all of life’s adventures – and misadventures, too.

These solo travel quotes refer to self-discovery, breaking through your comfort zone, and seeing travel as a motif for the journey of life.

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

– Pico Iyer

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”

– Grace Lichtenstein

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.”

– Pablo Holmberg

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.”

– Marty Rubin

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

– David McCullough Jr.

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

– Gustav Flaubert

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”

– Angela Vallely

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.”

– Helen S. Rosenau

Remember, your trip might start out as a solo adventure but it might not end that way! It’s the bonds you form along the way that often make travel truly memorable.

For more inspiration, check out these beautiful quotes about travelling with friends .

“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”

– Jacqueline Boone

Coming home: Solo travel quotes to mark the end of a journey

All good journeys must come to an end! It feels like just yesterday friends and family were wishing you a safe journey , and now it’s time to go back to the people you love.

These quotes sum up the bittersweet feeling of coming home after a solo trip.

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”

– A.J. Hartley & David Hewson

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”

– Jewel E. Ann

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”

– Ron Franscell

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.”

– Louise Arner Boyd

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.”

– Becca Lee

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.”

– Elizabeth Lim

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”

– Katharine McGee

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

– Mary Oliver

That’s a wrap! I hope these 65 travel alone quotes have made you see solo travel in a new light, or perhaps motivated you to take the leap into solo travel.

Do you have any more inspiring quotes to share? I’d love to hear them in the comments below!

“Challenges are opportunities for growth and learning. Embrace them and see how far you can go.”

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Wonderful quotes for solo travellers. The solo female traveller quotes are also interesting.

This quotes make people strong to take decision and travel alone. Thanks for sharing such types of motivating quotes.

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Beautiful quotes. I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

These quotes will definitely encourage anyone to go for solo travelling. Everyone will be inspired by these. Thank you.

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150 Inspirational Solo Travel Quotes for Traveling Alone

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Embarking on a solo travel journey is a profound and transformative experience that opens the door to self-discovery, adventure, and personal growth. Whether you’re contemplating your first solo trip, questioning the allure of solo travel, or consider yourself a seasoned explorer, this collection of 150 inspirational solo travel quotes is crafted just for you.

I love the inspiration and encouragement I get from reading these inspirational quotes all about traveling alone. I’ve traveled most of the world as a solo female traveler and have had incredible experiences in many new places, but was very timid at the start. My solo journey has blossomed over the years and I hope by sharing solo travel resources like,  the ultimate guide to planning your first solo travel adventure  and  how to overcome common solo travel fears , will help other aspiring solo female travelers gain the confidence they need to set out on their own fearless adventure. 

These are some of the best solo travel quotes I have come across and hope they will inspire other solo travelers the way they inspire me! Each quote encapsulates the essence of the solo travel spirit, encouraging you to embrace the unknown, step out of your comfort zone, and savor the beauty of self-reliance. Let these words of wisdom guide you through the uncharted territories of solo travel and help instill the confidence you need to set forth on your next great adventure.

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Quotes About Traveling Alone

Traveling alone doesn’t mean you’re lonely; it means you’re brave enough to embrace the unknown on your own terms. Anonymous

Traveling solo forces you to confront the reality of who you are, to get comfortable with your own company, and to trust your instincts. Brenna Smith

Solo travel is the ultimate form of self-care — an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, your values, and your passions. Niki Brantmark

A solo adventure is not a path walked alone; it’s a canvas where you paint your dreams with the colors of independence. Anonymous

A solo journey is not a solitary endeavor; it’s an affirmation of your ability to thrive independently, to explore fearlessly, and to cherish your own company. Amy E. Smith

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

I am a woman who seeks adventure, finds strength, and discovers her true self in every destination. Anonymous

In the solitude of solo travel, the mind expands, and the spirit dances to the rhythm of the open road . Jack Kerouac

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

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. Albert Einstein

• Traveling alone is an act of independence, a declaration that you are strong enough to chart your own path and find beauty in your own company. – Niki Nakayama
• Traveling alone is a celebration of the self, a pilgrimage into the unknown, and a dance with the beauty of solitude. – Inspired by Jack Kerouac
• Traveling alone as a woman is not a challenge; it’s an affirmation of your ability to conquer the unknown.
• Adventure awaits the woman who dares to travel solo, a journey where she becomes the storyteller of her own extraordinary tales. – Ellevate
• Solo travel teaches you that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
• Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light – Yogi Bhajan
• Traveling alone allows you to become the author of your own story, the architect of your own experiences, and the heroine of your own journey.
• Walking alone, we find our own way, forging paths through the unknown and proving that independence is the greatest strength. – Inspired by Helen Keller
• Venture into the world alone, and you’ll find that the universe unfolds its secrets to those bold enough to listen.
• Traveling is not just about reaching a destination; it’s a relentless pursuit of experiences, a raw confrontation with the unknown, and an unapologetic embrace of the journey.” – Inspired by Henry Rollins

Traveling solo doesn’t mean you’re alone; it means you’re free to create your own adventure, chart your own course, and embrace the unknown. Janice Holly Booth

A woman alone on the road is a canvas, painting her story with every step, every smile, and every challenge overcome. Anonymous

Traveling solo means discovering the immense power within yourself, as you navigate the world on your terms. Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once! Anonymous

In solitude, the individual discovers the depth of their own existence, finding a unique freedom in the uncharted territories of solo travel. Inspired by Hannah Arendt

In the realm of solo exploration, a woman discovers not just the world but the incredible depth within herself. Anonymous

If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet. Rachel Wolchin

She finds her strength in the solace of solo travel, where every step is a triumph over fear. Anonymous

Solo travel isn’t about being alone; it’s about being free to be yourself. Anonymous

Solo travel isn’t about the destination; it’s about the unpredictable journey and the freedom to roam, wander, and wonder. Jack Kerouac

Short Traveling Solo Quotes

• Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.
• Your wings already exist; all you have to do is fly.
• Traveling alone is a journey within yourself, where the destination is self-discovery.
• Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time. –Brenna Smith
• What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly? -Erin Hanson
• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. -Neale Donald Walsch
• The journey itself is my home. –Matsuo Basho
• What good are wings without the courage to fly? -Harper Lee
• Some journeys can be only traveled alone.” –Ken Poirot
• Not all who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Adventure awaits where plans don’t reach.
• I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
• Feel the fear and do it anyway. – Susan Jeffers
• Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.
• A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – Tim Cahill
• Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. – John D. Rockefeller
• Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it. – John Mayer
• I am a woman who chooses freedom over fear.
• If you never go, you will never know!
• A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – John A. Shedd
• I travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape me.
• To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen
• Walk your own path and be yourself. – Joanne Nussbaum
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Henry David Thoreau
• I am not looking for a knight in shining armor; I am looking for a world to conquer.

Life Is About The Journey

• If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise. – Erin Hanson
• A woman with a passion for adventure is an unstoppable force, especially when she travels solo.
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gorde
• The most liberating thing about fashion is that it allows you to be whoever you want to be. The same applies to life; shape it the way you envision. – Inspired by Diane von Fürstenberg
• Live the life you have imagined. Travel alone and embrace the freedom to forge your unique path. – Inspired by Henry David Thoreau
• Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.
• I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya
• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one thing that is going to require the most from you. -Caroline Myss
• Sometimes the best journeys are those that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect, and are taking us places we do not know. – Aisha Mirza
• The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage. – Pericles
• Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu
• The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.
• Travel far and wide, but don’t forget to explore within.
• Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled. – Mohammed
• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. – Henry David Thoreau
• Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
• O traveler, embark on the journey alone, for in solitude, you shall find the universe within yourself. – Walt Whitman
• The most important relationship you have is with yourself. Nurture it, cherish it, and travel the journey within. – Diane von Fürstenberg
• The road is life, and to travel solo is to live authentically, immersed in the unfolding stories of the open highway. – Jack Kerouac
• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Traveling is a journey into the unknown, where every step unveils the magic of the world and the mysteries within ourselves. – Inspired by Paulo Coelho
• Traveling is not just about reaching a destination; it’s a relentless pursuit of experiences, a raw confrontation with the unknown, and an unapologetic embrace of the journey. – Inspired by Henry Rollins
• Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. – Douglas Ivester
• Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. Gustave Flaubert

Female Travel Quotes Written By Females

• “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” — Barbara De Angelis
• “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart
• “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”- Virginia Woolf
• “Be the woman who takes risks, makes mistakes, and still rises with grace. Your journey is defined by your resilience.” – Inspired by Diane von Fürstenberg
• “Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.” – Amelia Earhart
• “Travel solo, not because you are running away, but because you are running towards the person you’ve always wanted to become.” – April Mae Monterrosa
• “When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
• “Life is a daring adventure, and the greatest adventure is found in the solitary journey where the spirit is set free.” – Inspired by Helen Keller
• “Strength comes from within; as a woman, embrace your power, take the lead, and define your path.” – Inspired by Diane von Fürstenberg
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Anthony Bourdain

• “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to.” – Judith Thurman
• “An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.” — Norma Shearer
• “Fear is not an option; it’s a challenge waiting to be conquered. Face it, embrace it, and let it propel you forward.” – Inspired by Diane von Fürstenberg
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much. Yet in solo travel, we discover the vast capabilities within ourselves.” – Inspired by Helen Keller
• “In the solitude of solo exploration, the individual asserts their freedom, defining their own narrative amidst the vastness of the world.” – Inspired by Hannah Arendt
• “She was afraid of heights, but she was much more afraid of never flying.” Erin Hanson
• “Solo travel becomes a canvas where the individual paints the portrait of their own identity, far from the constraints of societal expectations.” – Inspired by Hannah Arendt
• “Solo travel is the window to the world, where the soul, unaided and unaccompanied, seeks the richness of experience.” – Inspired by Helen Keller
• “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched but are felt in the heart. Solo travel allows the heart to feel the pulse of the world.” – Inspired by Helen Keller

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

Travel Quotes for Solo Travelers

• 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
• Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• The best dreams happen when you’re awake. – Cherie Gilderbloom
• So much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche
• Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling. -Roman Payne, The Wanderess
• The most important relationship you have is with yourself. Nurture it, cherish it, and travel the journey within. – Inspired by Diane von Fürstenberg
• Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan
• As I travel alone, I encounter the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau
• The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – Augustine of Hippo
• Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
• To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
• Life is short, and the world is wide. – Simon Raven
• 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
• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by. – Robert Frost
• Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing. – Gayle Foreman
• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France
• Don’t count the days. Make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
• Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai
• Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot
• Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.

These Solo Travel Quotes Will Inspire The Journey of Your Life.

• A new experience has the power to change you.
• Sometimes the best journeys are the ones you take solo .
• One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller
• Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher
• Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. – Jack Kerouac
• Adventure is worthwhile in itself. – Amelia Earhart
• Your soul knows the geography of your destiny.’ Solo travel, then, becomes the pilgrimage of the soul. – John O’Donohue
• Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. – Pico Iyer
• The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou

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

• Don’t let the expectations of others influence the beauty of your solo journey.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. – Harriet Van Horne
• Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. – Thomas Jefferson
• Oh the places you’ll go. –   Dr. Seus
• If happiness is the goal – and it should be, then adventure should be top priority. – Richard Branson
• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. -Samuel Johnson
• He who would travel happily must travel light. -Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. -Marty Rubin
• Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.
• Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are. Edith Wharton

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. Ray Bradbury

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50 Best Travel Alone Quotes to Embrace Your Adventure Solo

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These travel alone quotes express all the joys and advantages of solo travel. While taking a trip with your friends or family can be fun, traveling alone offers its own perks: planning your own schedule, visiting all of the places you’re interested in, and, most importantly, getting to know yourself better.

Whether you’re looking for travel inspiration or a way to sum up your trip, this collection of traveling alone quotes has something for every solo traveler, including short solo travel quotes, solo female travel quotes , and solo travel funny quotes.

Short quotes on traveling alone

Solo travel funny quotes, inspirational solo travelling quotes, solo female travel quotes.

Take the time to read through all these lone traveller quotes so you can find your favorites and save them for the next time you’re planning a solo trip or reminiscing about your last adventure .

These short and sweet solo trip quotes are just what you need for a quick burst of inspiration.

1. “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

This solo journey quote sums up one of the biggest advantages of traveling alone: getting to know yourself better!

2. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

While traveling with others can be quite enjoyable, solo travel can allow you to really appreciate the places you visit and the experiences you have, as this love to travel alone quote reminds us.

3. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

As this vacation alone quote suggests, finding out more about yourself is one of the most important parts of going on an adventure. That’s why traveling alone can be so rewarding.

4. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

As this solo trip quote points out, it can be hard to find a compatible travel partner. It’s better to plan an amazing trip and travel alone than to be stuck with someone you don’t mesh well with.

5. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

This traveling solo quote reminds us to live life to the fullest and make every day an adventure if we can.

6. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

I love how this quote about traveling alone puts a positive spin on being alone in an unfamiliar place, something many people might find scary or intimidating.

7. “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

When you’re a solo traveler, there’s no one you have to show off to or change your personality for. Being alone means you can just be yourself.

8. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

This lonely traveller quote is a poetic way of expressing a lifetime commitment to travel and adventure. The nomadic lifestyle isn’t for everyone, but those who love it embrace it wholeheartedly.

9. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

If you’re a solo traveler who gets lost often, this traveling by yourself quote is the one for you! Getting lost doesn’t have to be a bad thing; it can lead to even more fun and exciting adventures.

10. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

This short solo travel quote sums up one of the most basic reasons for traveling alone: there’s no need to navigate scheduling conflicts! Traveling solo means you can start your trip tomorrow if you want to.

11. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

This solo adventure quote works for just about any person who loves traveling. If you love to travel as much as we do, then you’ll probably agree that traveling is an absolutely priceless experience.

12. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

This solo journey quote shows that any trip involves an internal journey as much as a physical one. Being a solo traveler will, of course, make that internal journey more intense.

13. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

I love this vacation alone quote because I think it’s so accurate: traveling alone does give you, by necessity, the chance to be more introspective and think about your trip.

14. “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

As this solo travel quote suggests, self-discovery is a significant part of traveling alone.

15. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

This lonely traveler quote shows that solo travel may be intimidating, but it could also turn out to be one of the best things you ever do. Why not give it a chance and see how you like it?

As these funny solo travel quotes show, there’s humor to be found in just about every situation, including traveling alone.

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

This witty solo female travel quote is perfect for all the solo travelers just trying to satisfy their wanderlust.

17. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

This famous quote about traveling alone captures the excitement and anticipation of planning where to go next.

18. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

No matter how far you travel, you’ll always end up encountering yourself. Hopefully, you’re happy with the self you meet!

19. “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope

As this funny quote about traveling alone points out, your luggage ends up traveling to quite a few places with you. If you check your bags, they’ll even go to places you haven’t been!

20. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

There’s nothing quite like cozying up in a luxurious hotel room bed with some room service, and this quote about solo travel sums up that feeling pretty nicely .

The best solo travel quotes will help you develop an appreciation for traveling alone and maybe even inspire you to start planning your next adventure. Check out these inspirational quotes about traveling alone for even more trip-planning motivation.

21. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

This traveling alone quote is a good reminder that there are some journeys we just have to take by ourselves. Whether you take this quote literally and plan a solo trip, or as a metaphor about living life, these are undeniably words of wisdom.

22. “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

This solo traveller quote points out that our journey of discovering the world is a personal one. Fortunately, the more we discover about the world, the less we feel alone.

23. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” – Henry David Thoreau

One huge benefit of traveling alone is that the only person whose schedule you have to worry about is yours! Take advantage of this freedom so you can go on your trip sooner rather than later.

24. “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

As this vacation alone quote suggests, if you enjoy getting lost in the crowd, then traveling alone is a great option.

25. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

This solo trip quote reminds us that sometimes solitude is a necessity. Make the most of your time alone and try to appreciate the advantages of solo travel.

26. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

This traveling alone quote offers a beautiful metaphor for thinking about life. Every road we travel, whether literal or symbolic, offers some way of finding out more about ourselves.

27. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

This solo adventure quote provides a lovely way of looking at the memories you make when you travel alone.

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

This famous quote about traveling alone is a fantastic reminder that we should try to live life with no regrets. Trying to fulfill as many of our dreams as possible can help ensure that we don’t end up disappointed by what we haven’t done.

29. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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

I love this quote for traveling alone by the legendary Anthony Bourdain. It sums up the beauty and power of travel so perfectly.

30. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

As this travel solo quote points out, traveling alone means you’re not distracted by other people, so you can focus on and truly enjoy the beauty around you.

31. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

As this traveling by yourself quote shows, when we travel with other people, we can be influenced by their opinions and impressions of the places we go. On the other hand, when we travel alone, we have the chance to see a place on our own terms.

32. “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

What’s the use of going on an adventure if you don’t have any good memories and stories to bring back with you? As this traveling alone quote reminds us, adventures can live on forever in our memories.

33. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

This very famous quote about traveling alone is so popular because a book is such an apt metaphor for explaining why traveling is so important.

34. “Some journeys can only be traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

This traveling solo quote cuts right to the chase: sometimes traveling alone really is best!

35. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” – Gina Greenlee

Sometimes, your favorite part of a trip might not have anything to do with what you see. Instead, you might appreciate something totally intangible and personal .

Solo female travelers often have more to deal with and think about than other travelers, which can make traveling alone seem scary and even dangerous. If you’ve been thinking about traveling alone as a woman, these strong woman travel alone quotes will definitely inspire you to live out your dreams.

36. “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

This solo traveling quote makes a great point that traveling alone can actually be a good way to make new friends. Being by yourself means you’ll seek out new connections and get to meet people from all over the world.

37. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

This traveling alone as a woman quote points out that history’s most famous women have never been the ones who stayed at home and dreamed without putting those dreams into action.

38. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone; it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

As this solo travel quote suggests, traveling alone allows you to find freedom from others’ expectations and, instead, live life on your own terms.

39. “Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

This witty quote about solo female travel makes the perfect caption for photos of a trip around the world.

40. “My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

This quote for traveling alone will probably speak to all of the solo travelers out there who are full of wanderlust, especially since it expresses the spiritual fulfillment that can come from exploring far and wide.

41. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

I love this strong woman travel alone quote because it emphasizes how responsible you are for your own happiness. Ultimately, you’re the one who knows yourself best, so why not take yourself where you’re happiest?

42. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

This solo female traveler quote points out that going off the beaten path can be a good thing. Take a risk and dare to go where no one else has ever gone.

43. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

This female solo travel quote is a lovely way of saying that solo female travelers can find a home just about anywhere in the world.

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

Travel involves a lot of beautiful, magical experiences, some of which are so profound that they change our lives forever. These experiences could include everything from seeing the moon or watching the sun rise to looking out over a spectacular landscape.

45. “Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.” – Hannah Arendt

As this solo adventure quote suggests, being alone in a foreign country allows you to escape every part of your everyday life and make the most out of living.

46. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

It can be tempting to panic when something goes wrong while you’re traveling. However, as this vacation alone quote shows, mistakes and mishaps can be the best way to learn and become even more confident.

47. “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

The unknown can often be frightening, but this solo journey quote expresses the excitement and anticipation that can also come with not knowing what will happen next. In other words, sit back and enjoy the ride!

48. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

This travelling alone quote really speaks to me because, like Edith Wharton, I think there are so many amazing people you can meet all over the world. Fortunately, solo travel is the perfect opportunity to meet at least a few of them.

49. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

As this lonely traveler quote points out, there can be beauty and excitement in getting lost. It’s all part of the adventure!

50. “The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

This lovely quote about traveling alone has a great message: that we have so much in common with our fellow humans around the world. Even if we come from different backgrounds or countries, there will always be something we can share.

I hope these solo trip quotes sparked your wanderlust and inspired you to embark on a solo adventure! They’re also a great way to reflect on any past trips you’ve had.

Let me know in the comments which quote is your favorite (or maybe you have more than one!). If you need even more inspiration, check out these top 100 travel quotes .

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74 Inspiring Solo Travel Quotes 2024

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A quick search of the internet and you’ll find thousands of travel quotes. They exist to inspire you to delve into the unknown and learn about the world .

However, solo travel quotes have an extra special ingredient – not only do they ignite wanderlust and passion for the great unknown , but they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to solo travellers who are facing the world alone.

Why Travel Solo?

In recent years, solo travel has been on the rise, and more and more people are discovering just how empowering and exciting it can be to venture into the unknown alone.

It is one of the most life changing experiences you can undertake, and will ultimately mould you into a stronger, more capable individual.

There are plenty of challenges when travelling alone, but solo travel is the ultimate chance for you to learn about yourself and see the world from a whole new perspective.

You’ll grow as a person exponentially, and be better equipped to deal with what life throws at you.

Since 2012, I have travelled alone through Europe , Asia , Central and South America , and the freedom it brings is incomparable to traveling with others.

My solo trips have been filled with highs and lows, but they are the kinds of experiences I wouldn’t change for the world, as they have made me who I am today.

Whether in a foreign city or strange town, a solo journey is your very own adventure.

So whether you’re single, in a relationship, introverted or extroverted, try travelling alone at least once in your life.

74 of the Best Travel Solo Quotes

Whether you’re currently on the road solo or at home planning to travel alone for the first time, you’ll find that quotes about traveling alone will help to inspire you and push you ahead.

So I’ve curated and categorised the best solo travel quotes (that also make the perfect travel captions for Instagram), in the hopes that they will motivate and nudge you into booking a solo trip abroad.

These quotes for solo travel have been hand picked from authors, poets, historians, actresses, scientists and even Buddha!

Best Solo Trip Quotes

1. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”  – Unknown

2. “Go solo, go far.”  – Unknown

3. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” —  John Mayer

4. “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”  – Kein Poirot

5. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” —  Buddha

6. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” –  Maxwell Maltz

7. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

8. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” –  Mandy Hale

Self Discovery Quotes About Travelling Alone

Solo travel is all about relying on yourself and trusting your instincts.

You’ll learn more about yourself and find out just how capable you are.

The following quotes about traveling alone, are all about self discovery:

9. “I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

10. “As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!”

Solo Ride Quotes

11. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” –  Grace Lichtenstein

12. “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”  – Unknown

13. “The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” –  Angela Vallely

14. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” –  Pablo Holmberg

15. “You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

Riding Solo Quotes About How Much Travel Can Change You

We all know travel changes you, but travelling alone is even more transformative, and will shape you in ways you could never have imagined.

This is because solo travel is designed to push you out of your comfort zone, and make you realise the only limits you have are the ones you set yourself.

The below travel alone quotes are all about how solo travel can change you and test your boundaries:

16. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss

17. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

18. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

Quotes on Travelling Alone

19. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

20. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.”  – Suzy Strutner

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

22. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” –  Isabelle Eberhardt

Quotes About Traveling Alone That Will Make You Embrace It

When you’re planning to visit a foreign country by yourself for the first time, it can be hard to find the inner courage to make your solo travel dreams a reality.

The following solo travelling quotes are designed to take away your fears and get you packing your backpack:

23. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” –  Diane Von Furstenberg

24. “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”  – Jacqueline Boone

Travelling Alone Quotes

25. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

26. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

27. “You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!”

28. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

29. “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!”

FOMO Solo Travel Quotes for Instagram

There are plenty of quotes about solo travel that are all about making sure you don’t miss out on travelling alone and the unique experiences it offers.

Read this collection of inspiring traveling solo quotes for the journeys you need to do alone NOW before it’s too late.

30. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –  Mark Twain

31. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.”  – Unknown

Alone Travel Quotes

32. “If you never go, you’ll never know.”  – Unknown

33. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

34. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” –  Henry David Thoreau

35. “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” – Angelina Jolie

Solo Female Travel Quotes

If the fear of the unknown has caused you to procrastinate or postpone your solo female adventure then I hope these inspirational quotes about traveling alone as a woman will give you a push in the right direction.

36. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

37. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

Solo Travel Instagram Captions

38. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” –  Diane Von Furstenberg

39. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” –  Mae West

40. “I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.”  – Cheryl Strayed

41. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” –  Freya Stark

42. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

Quotes for Travelling Alone

43. “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

44. “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” –  Storm Jameson

45. “This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

46. “A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” –  Pico Iyer

47. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

Quotes on Solo Travel

48. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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

49. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

50. “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” – Margaret Shepard

51. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

52. “Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” –  Holly Morris

Solo Travelling Quotes

53. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

54. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” –  Henry Rollins

55. “The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” –  Debasish Mridha

56. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” –  Helen Keller

57. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

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

59. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” –  Elizabeth Gilbert

60. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” –  Paul Theroux

Solo Trip Captions for Instagram

61. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

62. “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” – Mary Oliver

63. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

64. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions”. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

65. “Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life-changing experience of your life. Try it at least once!”

66. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

Solo Journey Quotes

• “The impulse of travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier
• “It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten
• “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan
• “A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

Solo Traveling Quotes

• “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
• “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
• “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

The Best Travel Alone Quotes

That’s a wrap!

I hope these quotes on travelling alone have made you see solo travel in a new way, and perhaps motivated you to get past the hardest part, taking the leap!

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip.

However you choose to use these solo ride quotes, I hope they inspire you to take on your next solo adventure trip.

Did I miss any good quotes for solo travelers?

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125 Solo Travel Quotes To Inspire You to Travel Alone Without Fear!

Looking for some inspirational solo travel quotes or travel alone quotes? You are in the right place because this blog is all about solo travel.

So, in this post, you will find those travelling alone quotes of wisdom that will inspire you to step out alone.

If you have never traveled alone or been hesitant about traveling by yourself, these words will kindle your desire to explore the world alone.

Why check these solo travel captions?

As a solo female traveler, some of these solo travel quotes push me to pack my bags when I have cold feet before going off on an adventure.

I hope these quotes about traveling alone will do the same to you. Go ahead and check what some of the world’s best authors, travelers, and explorers have got to say about solo travel.

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BEST SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Let’s start this epic list with the best solo travel quotes.

These quotes about traveling alone will surely uplift your morale, especially if you are contemplating planning your first solo trip.

Whether you are looking for some motivational words to inspire you to take the leap of faith, or encouragement to go do it, these travel alone quotes will boost your morale to a great degree.

‘I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.’ – Roman Payne

“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

These words ring true and are more relevant today than ever. I know solo traveling can be intimidating because I have been there.

But it just lasts until you take that first step. Once you do, nobody can stop you from making you the queen of your life.

Whenever you start feeling butterflies in your stomach, return to these quotes for travelling alone to beat your fears and doubts.

‘Anything we fully do is an alone journey.’  —  Natalie Goldberg

‘Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.’ – The Dhammapada

‘My alone feels so good — I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude .’ – Warsan Shire

‘Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.’ – John Mayer

One of my favorite solo travel quotes is this one above by John Mayer that runs so deep, and it isn’t about travel alone. It is important to cultivate self-love, something we forget or take for granted.

When we start spending time with ourselves more, traveling becomes an extension of that.

And this is one of the best solo travel quotes that describe it best.

You will never know if traveling alone is for you not until you give a try, right?

These solo travel quotes give that push or nudge with their powerful descriptions of all the emotions associated with being alone on the road.

‘Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.’ -Walt Whitman

‘The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.’ – Henry David Thoreau

‘Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.’  –  Alan Ashley-Pitt 

‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Diane Von Furstenberg

‘ I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.’  —  Thomas Jefferson

‘Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.’ – Ken Poirot

‘I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.’ -Storm Jameson

‘There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale 

‘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

‘Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.’ – Henry Rollins

Traveling alone is not just exploring places.

It is an opportunity to discover yourself, and these words best describe what solo travel is.

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‘To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.’ – Unknown

‘Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.’ – Grace Lichtenstein

This is probably one of the deepest solo travel quotes out there.

‘When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart because there’s no other way to preserve it.’ — Shauna Niequist 

One of the things about solo travel is that you don’t have others to share your experiences. And these words about traveling alone poetically explains how it is best.

BEST TRAVEL ALONE QUOTES

This list of solo travel quotes are the best ones, some of my favorites that I keep coming back to.

If you are having second thoughts due to the fear of being by yourself or encountering dangers, don’t let these things stop you.

Check out these amazing quotes for travelling alone that will boost your confidence for sure.

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” – Caroline Myss

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” –  Henry Ford

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that — that’s what life is. You might be really good.” —Amy Poehler

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.” – Debasish Mridha

“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” –  Angelina Jolie

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

FAMOUS SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Below is the list of solo travel quotes that are well-known.

These beautiful quotes about travelling alone have become synonymous with going solo, and I am sure these words are a kind of anthem for those solo travelers out there.

‘Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.’ – Jacqueline Boone

‘I am willing to put myself through anything. Temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.’ – Diana Nyad

Sometimes, the unknown roads can be daunting.

Traveling by yourself can be a scary feeling as the fear of unknown places envelopes. But this quote about traveling alone positively inspires.

‘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

Solo travel is about getting over your comfort zone. Most of us are probably afraid to step out of this zone, but these solo travel quotes below are encouraging.

‘As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.’ – Ella Maillart

Travel changes us in ways that we hardly expect.

It widens our horizons, opens our mind to new perspectives and enriches us. And this is one of the best solo travel quotes that explain this.

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

‘You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.’ – Sue Fitzmaurice

“Through travel, I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty  

To awaken, quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.  –  Freya Stark

One of the solo travel quotes that speak of the enriching journey is this one below.

‘I learned my strengths and weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between. I gained courage, and I learned it myself ‘ – Ann Stirk

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.” – David Hewson

‘I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.’ — Daphne du Maurier

‘It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.’ – Mae Chevrette

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” – Alain de Botton

“The more I travelled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

‘Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.’ – Holly Morris

‘Travel brings power and love back into your life.’ – Rumi

‘I am never alone when I am in a foreign city. It is as if I had become invisible.’ – Storm Jameson

‘There is a kind of magic about going far away and then coming back all changed.’ – Kate Douglas Wiggin

More travel alone quotes for your inspiration.

‘There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.’ – Jack Kerouac

‘Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.’ – Ewan Mcgregor

‘The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.’ – Paul Theroux

‘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

‘When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.’ – Liberty Hyde Bailey

‘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

‘There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.’ – Mae West

‘Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.’- Libba bray

‘Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.’ – Lovelle Drachman

‘The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.’ – Diane Von Furstenberg

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SOLO FEMALE TRAVEL QUOTES

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 “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” – Dilma Rousseff

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.” – Kilroy J. Oldster

“An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other” – Norma Shearer

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there.” — Rumi

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

QUOTES ON TRAVEL LING ALONE

Below is the list of go solo quotes that are poetic and at the same time inspire us to looking within.

“How do the geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans, know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within, if only we would listen to it, that tells us so certainly when to go forth into the unknown.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.” – Margaret Mead

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning of the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between. This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.” – David Baldacci

“For if every true love affair can feel like a journey to a foreign country, where you can’t quite speak the language, and you don’t know where you’re going, and you’re pulled ever deeper into the inviting darkness, every trip to a foreign country can be a love affair, where you’re left puzzling over who you are and whom you’ve fallen in love with.” — Pico Iyer

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller

“Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” —Margaret Shepard

“There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

MORE INSPIRING SOLO TRAVEL QUOTES

Whether you are looking for fly solo quotes to feel free like a bird, or inspirational quotes for travelling alone, these solo travel quotes will do the job for you.

‘We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.’ – Anais Nin

‘Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.’ – Robert Frost

‘As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.’ – Virginia Woolf

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

‘And if I’d be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I’d find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.’ ―  Aspen Matis

‘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

‘He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.’ – Flemish proverb

‘I had chosen to leave and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.’ – Alison Singh Gee

‘No matter how you travel, it’s still you going.’  –  Jeff Goldblum

‘Travel -The Best Way To Be Lost And Found At The Same Time.’ – Brenna Smith

‘Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.’ –  John Muir

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

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust, and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

‘Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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

‘Travel Doesn’t Become Adventure Until You Leave Yourself Behind.’ – Marty Rubin

‘Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.’ – Andre Gorde

‘What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. 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

‘You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to know you.’ – Unknown

‘Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.’ –  Gayle Foreman

‘Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.’ –  Unknown

‘Traveling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.’ – Mark Foster

‘I didn’t know where I was going until I got there.’ –  Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed , the author of the best-selling book ‘Wild’ is one of those women with whom I can resonate with. Her journey has been similar to mine, and she beautifully transitions the stages of grief after a loss. Her words are one of the best solo travel quotes for women who are afraid of what lies beyond.

If you are a solo female traveler or someone having second thoughts about traveling alone, you should look up for more about her journey to inspire you.

Here are words about going home:

“The beautiful thing about going alone is that every triumph is yours, every consequence of every mistake is yours, everything that you have to figure out is on you. That’s a really powerful experience. And sometimes it is beautiful and positive and exciting, and sometimes it’s negative and hard and lonely. I wanted that. I welcomed that.” —Cheryl Strayed

‘If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.’ – Gina Greenlee

‘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

‘Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.’ – Barbara De Angelis

‘As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!’ –  Unknown

‘Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.’ – Roy M. Goodman

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

SHORT TRAVEL ALONE QUOTES

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“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.” – Ken Poirot

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.” – Paul Cezanne

“Go solo, go far.”

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.” – Louise Arner Boyd

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

“Walk your own path and be yourself.” – Joanne Nussbaum

“You have to get lost before you can be found” – Jeff Rasley

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” – Angela Vallely

“If you never go, you’ll never know.”

“Just because my path is different, doesn’t mean I am lost.”

“Traveling solo took away my irrational fears.”

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.” – Elizabeth Lim

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.” – Mary Oliver

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” – Anthony Robbins

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

AWESOME QUOTES ABOUT TRAVEL ALONE

‘Anybody can be an explorer if they want to be. You can be an astronaut if you want. Figure out what you want to do, and then go do it.’ – Helen Thayer

‘Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.’ – Simon Raven

‘Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.’ – Suzy Strutner

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‘A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes

‘Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.’- Helen Keller

‘Sometimes, the journey has to be traveled alone to appreciate the strengths that lie deep inside of you.’ – Steven Aitchison

‘The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.’ – Sir Richard Burton

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

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

‘Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere will always haunt me.’ – Isabelle Eberhard

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

‘Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.’ – Matthew Karsten

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

‘The best education I have ever received was through travel.’ – Lisa Ling

SOLO TRIP QUOTES

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.” – Pico Iyer

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

“My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one-way ticket in her bag. Life was a never-ending journey.” – Nico J. Genes

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Ray

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. 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

“If I would have waited for someone else to join me on my travels, I would still be waiting.”

It is better to see something once than to hear about hundred times. – Russian Proverb

 “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. ” Alain de Botton

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.” – Becca Lee

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.” – Jewel E. Ann

“You have exactly one life in which to do everything you’ll ever do. Act accordingly.” —Colin Wright

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” – Aisha Mirza

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.” —Paulo Coelho

SOLO RIDE QUOTES 

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough Jr

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.” – David Cuschieri

 “Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.” – John Masefield

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.” – Helen S. Rosenau

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.” – Paul Theroux

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” —Roald Dahl

 “I had chosen to leave, and live alone in a foreign country. And in fleeing thousands of miles across the Pacific, I chose myself, and a chance at a different future.” – Alison Singh Gee

“This journey has always been about reaching your own another shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.” – Diana Nyad

“Solo Travel is all about exploring the world and one’s own-self.”

TRAVEL ALONE CAPTIONS FOR INSTAGRAM

The below list of Instagram captions are the best solo travel quotes that you can check out.

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how this is not a red herring; it’s a map.” – Gina Greenlee

“A girl who travels has relationships that are based not on security, but on sincerity.” – Lauren Kleefeld

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.” – Nitin Namdeo

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

“Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.” – Albert Camus

“Waiting for the perfect moment to travel? It is here right now!”

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.” – Anthon St. Maarten

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz

“One of the reasons I travel solo: I do not have to share all the delicious food!”

“A traveler should be happy, not perfect!”

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” – Oprah Winfrey

“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.” – Alphonse De Lamartine

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” — Buddha

“A ship is safe in the harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for.” – Gael Attal

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“I guess I’m too selfish to travel well with other people.” – Alice Steinbach

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.” – Katharine McGee

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.” – Ron Franscell

“It is confidence in our bodies, minds, and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s the magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.” – Timi Nadela

“Being a solo traveler made me an adult.”

UNUSUAL QUOTES ABOUT TRAVELING ALONE

There are some solo travel quotes that might have been missed out in getting their limelight because these are some of the most meaningful thoughts that crossed the minds of people whose passion to explore the horizons of the earth superseded everything.

Here are a few more of these quotes about solo travel.

‘You don’t have to be rich to travel well.’ – Eugene Fodor

‘Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.’ – Mandy Hale

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

‘The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.’ ― Elizabeth Gilbert

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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.’ – Paul Theroux

‘He travels the fastest who travels alone.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘People don’t take trips, trips take people.’ – John Steinbeck

‘When overseas you learn more about your own country than you do the place you’re visiting.’ – Clint Borgen

‘Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.’ – Bob Dylan

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.’ – Andrew O’ Hagan

The words above must probably one of the most meaningful solo travel quotes ever said.

‘A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.’ – George A. Moore

‘The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.’ – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

‘The journey is the reward.’ — Chinese proverb

‘Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.’ – Pat Conroy.

‘After midnight, the moon set, and I was alone with the stars. I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty, and I need no other flight to convince me that the reason flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.’ – Amelia Earhart

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BEST CAPTIONS ABOUT TRAVEL LING ALONE

Bill Bryson is one of the authors that I enjoy reading, and most of the times, he travels solo, which makes his works interesting. In one of the solo travel quotes, he describes what it is like to travel alone

‘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 is taken for granted.’ – Bill Bryson

‘Wanna feel the warm breeze. Sleep under a palm tree. Feel the rush of the ocean. Get onboard a fast train. Travel on a jet plane, far away.’ – Kelly Clarkson 110. ‘To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.’ – Jeanne Moreau

‘We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.’ – Letitia Elizabeth Landon

‘Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.’ – Mark Jenkin

‘To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.’ –  Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.’ – Joe Abercrombie

‘All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.’ – Martin Buber

‘Someday, somewhere, anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.’ –   Pablo Neruda

‘In the depth of winter I final learned that there was in me an invincible summer.’ –  Albert Camus

‘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

‘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

‘Travel empties everything you have into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.’ – Claire Fontaine

‘I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.’ – Maya Angelou

‘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

‘Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.’ – Frank Borman

‘With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.’ – Sandra Lake

‘One of the great things about travel is you find out how many goods, kind people there are.’ – Edith Wharton

‘It is better to travel well than to arrive.’ – Buddha

‘We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.’ – Gloria Gaither

This exhaustive list of solo travel quotes should inspire you to take that first step. Solo travel can be scary, but it doesn’t have it to be that way. Hope this solo adventure quotes will guide you to tons of happiness.

It’s all in your mind, and once you travel you will realize that traveling by yourself isn’t as scary as you thought it would be. Happy solo travels!

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25 Motivating Quotes: Vacation, Taking A Break & Self Care

by Deseri Garcia | May 25, 2021 | Inspiration | 0 comments

Personally, I have a few excursions and a retreat planned ( we have only two spots left if you are interested! ) and even the act of planning them has filled me with excitement and anticipation. What about you? I hope you’ve got something in the works, whether it’s a substantial trip far away, special days off throughout the next few months, or at minimum, an abundance of self-care practices . 

For a little inspiration, I’m sharing some of my favorite quotes having to do with vacation , taking breaks and the importance of self-care. I hope you enjoy them, and please consider sharing your summer plans in the comments below! 

Vacation Quotes

“A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives.” – E. S. Woods

“A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.”  – Robert Orben

“As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation.” – John Battelle

“Vacations mean a change of pace, a gentleness with ourselves, a time of rest and renewal, and a time to stretch ourselves and encounter new people, new lands, new ways, and new options.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

“In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less and vacation more.” – Lea Mishell

“Sometimes we just need a mental vacation. Take a 15 minute break and start planning your next vacation.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities – just like shelter, clothes, and food, they make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival .” – Alexander Babinets

“Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

Taking a Break Quotes

“Relax, Recharge and Reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.” – Izey Victoria Odiase,

“In this game, everyone needs a break to refuel, recharge, and jump back in full throttle.” – Helen Edwards,

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott

“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn’t be squandered.” – Harper Reed

“Sometimes it’s important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow.” – Douglas Pagels

“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” – Maya Angelou

“Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven’t yet built your tree house, it’s never too late to start.” – Gina Greenlee

“Relax, recharge and reflect. Sometimes it’s OK to do nothing.” – Izey Victoria Odiase,

Self-Care Quotes

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer

“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck

“Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” – Princess Diana

“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.” – Hermann Hesse

“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton 

“Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.” – Deborah Day

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love .” – Brené Brown

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50 Solo Trip Quotes to Inspire You Travel Alone

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Embarking on a solo journey is a courageous and liberating experience, one that allows you to venture into the unknown, discover your inner strength, and create a canvas of unforgettable memories. It’s a voyage of self-discovery, where you are both the navigator and the traveler.

And what better way to embark on this incredible adventure than with a collection of inspiring solo trip quotes that ignite your wanderlust and encourage you to embrace the world on your own terms?

In this compilation of 50 Solo Trip Quotes, I invite you to explore the wisdom, insights, and musings of adventurers, philosophers, and wanderers who have found solace and empowerment in solo travel.

If you’re planning your first solo expedition or you’re a seasoned solo traveler, these quotes will remind you that the world is your oyster, and every moment of your journey is an opportunity to create your own adventure.

Solo Trip Quotes

• “Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”
• “Adventure awaits those who dare to explore the world alone.”
• “The best journey you can take is the one that leads to self-discovery.” – Shannon L. Alder
• “Traveling solo is the ultimate act of self-care.”
• “Embrace the beauty of your own company on the road less traveled.”
• “Solo travel is not about being alone; it’s about being free.”
• “Traveling solo is like writing your own story – every moment is an adventure.”
• “Solo travel teaches you to rely on yourself and trust your instincts.”
• “Don’t be afraid to walk your path alone; it often leads to the most beautiful destinations.”
• “A solo adventure is a journey to your true self.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
• “Traveling alone allows you to discover your own strength and resilience.”
• “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in new places.” – Mahatma Gandhi
• “Solo travel is the antidote to the noise of the world.”
• “The world is yours to explore, one solo adventure at a time.”
• “Traveling alone is the greatest gift you can give yourself.”
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – and often, that step is taken solo.”
• “Solo travel isn’t about escaping life; it’s about living it to the fullest on your terms.”
• “Traveling solo empowers you to conquer your fears and embrace new horizons.”
• “Adventure begins at the end of your comfort zone – so step out alone.”
• “Solo travel allows you to dance to the rhythm of your own heart.”
• “Exploring the world solo is like falling in love with life all over again.”
• “Traveling alone isn’t lonely; it’s liberating.”
• “Every solo journey is a chance to rewrite your story.”
• “The best company you can have is your own, especially on a solo adventure.”
• “Solo travel is the art of finding your own path.”
• “Traveling alone gives you the space to reconnect with your inner self.”
• “In solo travel, you find the freedom to be unapologetically yourself.”
• “The world is your playground – explore it solo.”
• “Traveling solo is a journey of self-discovery and endless possibilities.”
• “The magic of solo travel lies in the unexpected moments and connections.”
• “Adventure is calling, and it’s inviting you to go solo.”
• “Solo travel is the ultimate form of self-love.”
• “You are your best companion on the road of life – embrace solo travel.”
• “Traveling solo is a declaration of your independence.”
• “Every solo trip is a lesson in resilience and self-reliance.”
• “The world is meant to be explored, and solo travel is the key.”
• “A solo adventure is a canvas waiting for your unique story.”
• “Traveling alone opens your eyes to the beauty of the world and the strength within you.”
• “Solo travel is a journey to rediscover your own voice and desires.”
• “Life is short, so take that solo trip and make every moment count.”
• “Traveling alone is a brave act of self-discovery.”
• “Solo travel is the ultimate form of self-expression.”
• “The world is a vast playground for the solo traveler’s soul.”
• “Traveling alone is a symphony of self-discovery.”
• “The best adventures are the ones you take on your own.”
• “Traveling solo allows you to create your own adventure narrative.”
• “Adventure and self-discovery go hand in hand on a solo journey.”
• “Don’t wait for a companion; be your own fearless explorer.”
• “Solo travel: where the only limits are your own imagination.”
• “The world unfolds its secrets to those who travel alone.”

As you reflect on these 50 Solo Trip Quotes, let them be a source of inspiration and motivation for your next solo adventure. Remember that solo travel is not just about exploring new places, it’s about discovering the depths of your own soul, testing your limits, and savoring the freedom to follow your own path.

It’s a journey that will leave you with cherished memories, newfound confidence, and a profound connection to the world.

So, whether you’re wandering through bustling cities, trekking through remote landscapes, or simply taking a moment to embrace the beauty of solitude, know that you are part of a vibrant community of solo travelers who understand the transformative power of the road less traveled. Embrace the unknown, savor the solitude, and let these quotes be your companions on the remarkable journey that is solo travel. Bon voyage!

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a good quote on a solo trip.

A good quote for a solo trip: “Adventure awaits those who explore the world alone.”

What is alone quotes?

“Alone quotes” are quotes that reflect the feelings or experiences of being by oneself, often used to express solitude, independence, or self-discovery.

What does a solo trip do?

A solo trip can provide opportunities for self-discovery, personal growth, and the chance to explore the world on your terms.

How do you say travel alone?

To say “travel alone,” you can simply say, “I’m traveling solo” or “I’m embarking on a solo journey.”

What are trip captions?

“Trip captions” are short phrases or sentences used as captions for travel photos or posts on social media to convey experiences, thoughts, or emotions related to the trip.

Can I enjoy solo trip?

Yes, many people enjoy solo trips as they offer freedom, self-discovery, and the chance to create unique adventures.

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Powerful Quotes for Travelling Alone

March 21, 2021

Solo travel can be exhilarating, exhausting and emotional. But I’ve always found it worth it. Sometimes, though, you can use a helping hand. So I’ve gathered together some of my favourite quotes for travelling alone, as well as some more practical info to help you on your next solo trip.

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Through work and a passion for exploration, I’ve travelled alone through the desert sands of the Sahara, the ice of the Arctic Circle and the sweaty tropics of southern India. Some things have made life much easier, like having the right kit. So before you travel anywhere, check out the international travel checklist and ultimate travel packing list here.

Also, while many of these solo travel quotes wax lyrical about self-sufficiency, remember there’s nothing wrong with booking onto a tour or a cruise if that’s what you’d prefer. Suffering doesn’t make something more meaningful. 

There’s a whole world of travel experiences that cater for solo travellers these days, from luxury cruises in the Amazon rainforest like this to the ultimate in rest and relaxation in a Greek villa,  like this .

Right, that said, let’s get on to the inspirational stuff. Whether it’s your first trip or your forty-first, here are some of the best quotes for travelling alone.

Self Sufficiency Quotes

“I learned my strengths and my weaknesses. I experienced the exhilaration of the ups and the despairs of the lows and most of the feelings in between… I learned courage and I learned it myself” – Ann Stirk

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all, that I could carry it.” –  Cheryl Strayed

“As you travel solo, being totally responsible for yourself, it’s inevitable that you will discover just how capable you are!” Unknown.

“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of other’s expectations.” –   Suzy Strutner

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do” – Henry Ford

Meaning of Life Solo Travel Quotes

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane Von Furstenberg

“When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” –  Pablo Holmberg

“You have to get lost before you can be found” –  Jeff Rasley

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

“You will never be alone if you like the person you are with!” Unknown.

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” –  Grace Lichtenstein

“Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind” – Marty Rubin

“Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.”  – Unknown

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.” –  Angela Vallely

More Quotes About Travelling Alone

When it comes to finding quotes about travelling alone, you’ll notice they’re not all solo female travel quotes. As a woman, I think it’s great to see the explosion in articles and confidence encouraging women to hit the road. And while men and women face different challenges when it comes to their first time or forty-first trip, some things remain the same: buy travel insurance , take a deep breath and enjoy your trip!

Making Friends While Travelling Alone

 “Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” –  Jacqueline Boone

“You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you!” Unknown.

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Having Fun & Falling in Love

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” Freya Stark.

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Not letting life pass you by.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.

“So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –  Mark Twain

“Traveling alone will be the scariest, most liberating, life changing experience of your life. Try it at least once.”  – Unknown

“Go solo, go far.”  – Unknown

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” —  John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only traveled alone.”  – Kein Poirot

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” —  Buddha

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”  – Albert Einstein

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” –  Ayn Rand

“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

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Quotes about travelling alone that reveal the truth.

One day, you will look back and learn about all these adventures and new experiences through the fading grandeur of your own memories. And that’s the best way to look at things!

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

In other words, when you travel alone, you get to do what you want!

Quotes That Need Some Caveats (!)

“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you” –  Caroline Myss

I mean. I kinda see what she’s getting at here but also… When you’re travelling alone, sometimes the best thing you can do is listen to that fear and get yourself out of a dangerous situation. So, go with the poetry but don’t forget the practical.

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

I think for this to make sense, you have to have a pretty big idea about yourself before you start ;-) 

“If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

And perhaps my all time favourite…

 “If you never go, you’ll never know.” –  Unknown

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20 Powerful Quotes on Self-Care & Personal Resilience

04/23/2020 by Kristin Addis 1 Comment

In a fast-paced world with rare space for introspection and pause, self care seemed out of reach for many, myself included. Now with days on end to pause, breathe, and rest, I’m looking for ways to detach from the craziness around me in order to foster peace within myself.

Self-care is perhaps the best way to do this. Of course, self-care doesn’t always mean putting on a face mask (though social media often makes it seem that way). Self-care can be anything which allows us to slow down and get in touch with ourselves.

Whatever brings us rest, joy, inspiration — that is self-care. And if it happens to be a face mask, fantastic! If not, equally fantastic. Regardless of what method we choose or why, self-care has the power to keep us rooted, to make us the best possible versions of ourselves, and to restore and grow us so that we may be able to intentionally show up for those around us.

Below you’ll find a collection of encouraging and insightful quotes about self-care (as well as some on responding to difficulty in life with the grace and resilience which stems from self-care) to inspire you to embark on this journey of self-love:

“Self-care is how you take your power back.” -Lalah Delia, spiritual writer & wellness educator

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” -Eleanor Brown, novelist

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” -Madonna

“Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax. Let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” -Ray Bradbury

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” -Jack Kornfield, author & Buddhist teacher

“It is so important to take time for yourself and find clarity. The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.” -Diane von Fürstenberg

“Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.” -Pema Chödrön, Buddhist nun

“To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.” -Jill Bolte Taylor, author & neuroanatomist

“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” -Steve Maraboli, author & speaker

“There is enough time for self-care. There is not enough time to make up for the life you’ll miss by not filling yourself up.” -Jennifer Williamson, American politician

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” -Anna Quindlen, author & journalist

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.” -Kristi Ling, author

“Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.” -Tara Brach, author, clinical psychologist, & meditation teacher

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Buddha

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” -Maya Angelou

“Harmony begins within. If we are to influence the world around us, even in minor ways, the real work begins inside and emanates outwards.” -Gudjon Bergmann, author

“Taking care of myself doesn’t mean ‘me first.’ It means ‘me, too’.” -L.R. Knost, author

“Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” -Parker Palmer, author & activist

“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” -Dolly Parton

What are your favorite quotes about self-care and self-love?

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wishmoi says

07/28/2020 at 4:01 am

“Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the more necessary pain”

101 Best Self-Care Quotes To Remind You What Matters

It's incredibly important that each of us takes the time to practice self care. Not just a shallow "bubble baths and pedicures" form of self care (though those are both fun, too) — but a meaningful, intentional, thoughtful self care, that actually helps us. When we practice genuine self care, we get the opportunity to understand ourselves better, recharge our batteries before they're empty, and maintain the ability to make a difference for our loved ones and communities.

Want to get started with your self care practice immediately? Check out our other self-care guides: 101 Self-Care Ideas | The Best Self-Care Apps | How To Practice Proactive Self-Care | How To Cheer Yourself Up | How To Build a Self-Care Kit | Self Care Journals & Planners | Self-Care Affirmations | International Self-Care Day | Self-Care Gifts

Explore our curated list of the best quotes about self care:

Inspirational self-care quotes.

“Self-care is one of the active ways that I love myself. When you can and as you can, in ways that feel loving, make time and space for yourself.” — Tracee Ellis Ross 

“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.” — Brené Brown

“Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn’t last, but meditating every day does.” — Carrie Anne Moss

“I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” — Audre Lorde

“As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Maya Angelou

“With every act of self-care your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side.” — Susan Weiss Berry

“The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.” — bell hooks

“It’s okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others, and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.” — Faith Hill

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brown

“Faux self-care is a method — in the moment, going for a run might improve your mood, but it does nothing to change the circumstances in your life that led you to feel drained, energy-less, or down. On the other hand, the work of real self-care is about going deeper and identifying the core principles to guide decision-making. When you apply these principles to your life, you don’t just feel relief in the moment, you design a system of living that prevents the problems from coming up in the first place.” — Pooja Lakshmin, Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness

On Self Care Allowing You To Help Others

“Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” — Katie Reed

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.” — The Dalai Lama

“You are in a much better position to serve others when your basis needs are met and your ‘tank is full’.” — Michael Hyatt

“Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that serves other people better, because you will grow strong enough to lift someone else up.” — Mary Lambert

“When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.” — Solange Knowles

“By taking care of myself I have so much more to offer the world than I do when I am running on empty.” — Ali Washington

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” — Jack Kornfield

“Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” — Princess Diana

“If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?” — RuPaul

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Positive Self-Care Quotes

“Self-care is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.” — Audre Lorde

“Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.” — Deborah Day

“Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them, too.” — Gina Greenlee

“Wherever you are, at any moment, try and find something beautiful. A face, a line out of a poem, the clouds out of a window, some graffiti, a wind farm. Beauty cleans the mind.” — Matt Haig , Reasons to Stay Alive

“To me, self-care isn’t really shallow. Showing up for yourself, putting on a little moisturizer, can inspire so many different parts of your life.” — Jonathan Van Ness

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.” — bell hooks

Self Care Isn’t Selfish Quotes

“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” — Parker Palmer

“Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” — Eleanor Brownn 

“It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” — Mandy Hale

“There is enough time for self-care. There is not enough time to make up for the life you’ll miss by not filling yourself up.” — Jennifer Williamson

“The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.” — Sydney J. Harris 

On Self Love

“Love yourself first and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ” — Oscar Wilde

"Having the ability to become friends with yourself is a powerful thing." — Maybell Eequay

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within." — Maya Angelou

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits — anything that kept me small.  My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” — Kim Mcmillen 

“Don’t take your health for granted. Don’t take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.” — Jada Pinkett Smith

“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise Hay 

“The greatest gift you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift yourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health — body, mind, and spirit.” — Laurie Buchanan, Ph.D.

“Bask in the warmth of your own light.” — Amy Perez

“You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” — Ram Dass

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” — Maya Angelou

“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.” — Tyra Banks

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For Mental Health

“Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes. Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine.” — Charlotte Eriksson

“My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?” — Kerry Washington

“Taking care is one way to show your love. Another way is letting people take good care of you when you need it.” — Fred Rogers

“Allow yourself the things you need right now. Whether that’s space, rest, support, or something else, know that you are not a burden for taking care of yourself.” — TWLOHA

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On Inner Strength

“It is not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne

“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.” — Banksy

“Growth is necessary but don't convince yourself that those past versions of you were worthless. You wouldn't be here without them.” — Megan Jayne Crabbe

“It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.” — Anne Lamott

“Some days are going to be more of a struggle than others. That is okay and you need to forgive yourself in order to keep going — and growing.” — Sara Ahmed

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda

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“To be a good parent, you need to take care of yourself so that you can have the physical and emotional energy to take care of your family.” — Michelle Obama  

“I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.” — Joyce Meyer

Taking care of yourself doesn't mean me first; it means me too.” — L.R. Knost

“If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.” — bell hooks

“You are worth the quiet moment. You are worth the deeper breaths and you are worth the time it takes to slow down, be still, and rest.” — Morgan Harper Nichols

“No woman can control her destiny if she doesn’t give to herself as much as she gives of herself.” — Suze Orman

“Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.” — Golda Poretsky

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” — Elizabeth Gaskell

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For Teachers

“You are strong enough to handle whatever this week brings. Get some rest knowing you are capable.” — TWLOHA

“As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.” — Akiroq Brost

“Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.” — Amy Ippoliti

“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” — Christopher Germer

“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” — Jean Shinoda Bolen

Funny Self-Care Quotes

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott

“The world won’t get more or less terrible if we’re indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.” — Kamila Shamsie

“Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” — Edward Stanley

Short Self-Care Quotes

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” — Brené Brown 

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things, and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” — Louisa May Alcott 

“Self-care is how you take your power back.” — Lalah Delia 

“Be you, love you. All ways, always.” — Alexandra Elle

“Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” — Alison Malee

“When you feel like you can’t fight anymore — don’t give up. Just take some time to rest.” — TWLOHA

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” — Henry David Thoreau

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” — John Steinbeck

“You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.” — Jonathan Van Ness

“Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.” — Alice Walker

“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” — Etty Hillesum

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” — Jim Rohn

“Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Self-care isn't selfish; it's essential.” — Dr. Jamie Aten

More Self-Care Quotes

“Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.” — Jackie Viramontez

“Doing nothing has become one of the lost luxuries in these hectic times. But doing nothing, even for five minutes, can be rejuvenating. Go for it: You” — Joan Marques

“I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.” — Audrey Hepburn

“To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.” — Thich Nhat Han

“Self-care is non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.” — Jonathan Van Ness

“It is said that we can’t attain enlightenment, let alone feel contentment and joy, without seeing who we are and what we do, without seeing our patterns and our habits. This is called maitri — developing loving-kindness and an unconditional friendship with ourselves.” — Pema Chödrön

“Self-care has become a new priority — the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.” — Frances Ryan 

“Caring for your body, mind, and spirit is your greatest and grandest responsibility. It’s about listening to the needs of your soul and then honoring them.” — Kristi Ling

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” — John Lennon

“Pause for a moment. Pay attention to what your body is telling you. Listen to your needs and your boundaries. Don’t forget to take care of yourself, too.” — TWLOHA

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou

“When we self-regulate well, we are better able to control the trajectory of our emotional lives and resulting actions based on our values and sense of purpose” — Amy Leigh Mercree

“Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” — Ray Bradbury

“The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.” — John Maxwell

“If you want to feel loving, I coached myself, do something loving. This is basic soul care.” — Anne Lamott

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80 Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

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With 64% of women and 75% of men still living in the city they grew up in, you might be forgiven for thinking that the world is a small place, but there’s a whole planet out there that’s just waiting to be explored. Far more than just a 2-week vacation, traveling opens the mind and introduces us to experiences we will never be able to sample at home.

Showing us sights, sounds, flavors, and even smells that we’ve never tried before, different destinations can completely change our lives for the better, and teach us far more than we could ever learn in a classroom or from a textbook. You only have to read through this collection of travel quotes to see just how essential traveling is to our souls.

Whether you are looking back on vacations past or looking forward to visiting new and exciting faraway shores, these travel quotes will inspire you to get out there and take in as much of the world as you can. With busy working lives, you may only manage one annual vacation, but if you do as the Dalai Lama advises, seeing just one new place each year will broaden your horizons and enrich your life in ways you never thought possible.

If you’re looking for more inspiration to travel, take a look at these inspirational quotes and these adventure quotes .

Travel Quotes

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind” – Ralph Crawshaw

“There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything.” – Adam Richman

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

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“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley

“Travel empties out everything you’ve put into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.” – Claire Fontaine

“Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi Jalalud” – Din

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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

“Would you still want to travel to that country If you could not take a camera with you. – a question of appropriation.” – Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.” – Anonymous

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Mohammed

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

“I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.” – Justina Chen Headley

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Abercrombie

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

“Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It’s exciting to start as young as possible – you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.” – Natalie Dormer

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

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

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller

“Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

“They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” – Anderson Cooper

“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

“He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook.” – African Proverb

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

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

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey

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

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman

“I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.” – Hedy Lamarr

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

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

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Travel more to see more to live more.” – Debasish Mridha

“The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown

“Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Laozi

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gid

“I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

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

“It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it” – J. D. Andrews

“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

“Traveling is the great true love of my life… I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.” – Caleb Johnson

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

“I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it…it all depends on who I travel with.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“Traveling is more fun — hell, life is more fun — if you can treat it as a series of impulses.” – Bill Bryson

“What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.” – Ruzwana Bashir

“It’s important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you’ve got more to feedback into your work. For me, it’s a natural thing.” – Cate Blanchett

“Travelling the road, last known is where I want to be.” – Paper Lions

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey” – Pat Conroy

“Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again. — Jane Wilson” – Howarth

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

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.— Jane Wilson” – Howarth

“A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” – Andrew Zimmern

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

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61 best self-care quotes (that are uplifting, motivating, and empowering).

Self-care quotes are a powerful to inspire and remind us to take time to pause and recharge. We all need to stop every so often and practice self-care. But when you are a busy mom especially, taking time off for your own self-care can be the last thing on your mind.

And even if you are not a busy mom chances are your hands are full with a full schedule each and every day.

So it is easy to get so busy or so caught up in life we put our own self-care by the wayside.

And when that happens we find that we have lost ourselves somehow or lost our way and we are forced to stop and breathe again or realize we have sorely neglected ourselves and are paying the price.

Self-care is therefore so important for our health, including our mental health, and is necessary for us to be our best selves.

And to help you remember to prioritize self-care I am going to give you 61 inspirational self-care quotes that will inspire you and remind you to stop and nourish your mind body and spirit.

The best Inspirational self-care quotes to motivate and uplift you

1. “Keep taking time for yourself until you are you again” – Lalah Delia

2. I have come to believe that taking care of myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival- Audre Lourde

3. “Take care of your body. Its the only place you have to live” -Jim John

4. “How you start your day is often how live your life”- Louise Hay

5. “Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what is left over”- Katie Reed.

6. Love yourself first and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world- Lucille Ball.

7. Almost everything will work again if unplug it for a few minutes including you- Anne Lamott

8. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make happiness a priority. It’s necessary- ” Mandy Hale.

9. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” – Oscar Wilde

10. “You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves your love and affection-“ Buddha

11. Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself- Coco Chanel

12. Self-care is how you take your power back- Lalah Delia

13. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others- Maya Angelou.

14. “It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it- Lenna Horne.

15. When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits-anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal, Now I see it as self loving- Kim Mcmillen

16. The mind is everything. What you think, you become- Buddha

17. “You have only one life to live make sure it’s yours”- Eleanore Brown

18. “Our soul is like s a soft and gentle flower; it needs to be natured, cared for, and tended to with sufficient sunlight, fresh air, and freedom to bloom into its most precious and beautiful form. This my friend, is self-love”- Miya Yamanouchi

19. “Talk to yourself like you would someone you love” – Brene Brown

“20. “The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself” – Anna Quindlen

21. “We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails” Dolly Parton

22. “You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm”- Unknown

23. “Taking care of myself doesn’t’ ‘me first. It means ‘Me too’ “- L.R Knost

24. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender. It’s holy ground; there is no greater investment.” Steven Covey

“25. When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself”- Paulo Coelho

26. “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, and your spirit. Then get back to work”- Ralph Marston

27. ‘Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self” Queen Latifah

28. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you” – Walt Whitman

29.” If I am not good to myself, how can O expect anyone else to be good to me?” Maya Angelou

30. “Be you. Love you. All Ways, always.” Alexandra Elle

31. “Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable.” – Jackie Viramontez

32. “It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone who needed it, it can last a lifetime”- Steve Maraboli

33. “If your compassion doesn’t include yourself its incomplete” J ack Kornfield

34. ” Honoring your own boundaries is the clearest message to others to honor them too.”- Gina Greenlee

35. “It’s more than a bath; it’s a transformative experience. You are searching for buoyancy in the soul and spring in your step.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

36.” Rest and self-care are so important. You take time to replenish your spirit it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” – Eleanor Brownn

37. “Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.”- Amy Ippol iti

“Your subconscious mind is paying attention to how you treat yourself.”- Sam Owen

40. ” You define your own life. Dont let other people write your script” – Oprah Winfrey

41. “Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause ” Cecilia Tran.

42. Every morning look into the mirror and affirm positive things in your life.”- Laila G ifty Akita

43. “It’s all about finding calm in the chaos”- Donna Karan

44. There is enough time for self-care. There is not enough time to make up for the life you’ll miss by not filling yourself up” -Jennifer Williamson.

44. “Happiness is the highest form of health” Dalai Lama

45. “When you take care of yourself, you are a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better” Solange Knowles.

46. ” If you don’t love yourself, how the hell you gon’ love somebody else?” – Rupaul “

47. The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself”- Diane Von Furstenberg

48. “Self-care is never a selfish act- it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have the gift I was put on the earth to offer others” – Parker Palmer

49. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. ”- Deborah Day

50 “The most powerful relationship is the one you have with yourself.”- Steve Maraboli

51. Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”- Etty Hillesum

52. “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”- Audre Lorde

53. “You become what you think about all day long.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “Breath. And let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

55. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself” – Rumi

56. I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick.” – Audrey Hepburn

57. “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how to use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.”- Anna Taylor

58. “Don’t step into lives that aren’t yours, make choices that aren’t nourishing, or dance stiffly for years with the wrong partner, or parts of yourself.”- Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy 

59. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. “- M. Scott Peck

60. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness”- Robert Morley

61. “An empty lantern provides no light. Self-care is the fuel that allows your light to shine brightly”- Unknown

Final thoughts on inspiring self-care

It’s my hope that reading through these self-care quotes inspires you and motivates you to take some time more often to take care of yourself.

And I hope that you remember even the smallest act of self-care matters.

I also hope and wish that you remember to go deeper than the bubble baths and flowers and look inwards to the real you and let her out, because in that authenticity, acknowledging yourself is the ultimate form of self-care.

I hope you are now ready to start practicing self-care regularly. And if you are here are some ideas for you. Start with this 31 Days self-care challe nge with a free printable.

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50 Self-Care Quotes To Inspire A New Mindset

Take care of yourself with these inspiring self-care quotes.

Jorie Nicole McDonald leads editorial video efforts for Southern Living. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she creates engaging visual content for the website and various social media platforms.

Self-Care Quotes About Acceptance

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It's hard to find a minute to ourselves in today's world. Between taking care of children, working a full-time job, and the constant news cycle, quiet moments are few and far between. We often don't realize the importance of rest and rejuvenation until it's too late. Exhausted and overwhelmed, life finally forces us to take a break. But what if we could gain control and find peace before our schedule gets out of hand? Take a moment and read through these self-care quotes. They are sure to fill your heart and inspire you to change your mindset. Take care-of-yourself quotes may be just what you need to enter the new year with a fresh perspective—one that could change your life.

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• "And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good." —John Steinbeck
• "Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness." —Deborah Day
• "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." —Oscar Wilde
• "The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore." —C. JoyBell
• "Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves." —Nathaniel Branden
• "People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous, and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness, and inclusiveness." —Sanaya Roman
• “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” —Wayne Dyer
• “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” — Sandra Bierig
• “You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.” —Abiola Abrams
• “Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.” —Billy Graham
• “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.” —Tyra Banks
• “Forgiveness isn’t just the absence of anger. I think it’s also the presence of self-love, when you actually begin to value yourself.” —Tara Westover
• “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” —Roy T. Bennett
• “The challenge is not to be perfect—it is to be whole.” —Jane Fonda
• "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life." —Jean Shinoda Bolen
• "When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives." —Kristin Neff
• "Self-care is how you take your power back." —Lalah Delia
• "Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort." —Deborah Day
• "Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others." —Christopher Germer
• "When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny better than you do." —John O'Donohue
• "If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete." —Jack Kornfield
• "There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself." —Brian Andreas
• “Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.” — Princess Diana
• “As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” — Maya Angelou
• “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” —Stephen Covey
• “Do something nice for yourself today. Find some quiet, sit in stillness, breathe. Put your problems on pause. You deserve a break.” ―Akiroq Brost
• “Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.” ―Francis de Sales
• "Take the time today to love yourself. You deserve it." —Avina Celeste
• "Self-care is not a waste of time. Self-care makes your use of time more sustainable." —Jackie Viramontez
• "Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept." —Anna Taylor
• "Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." —Bell Hooks
• "Rest and self-care are so important. When you take time to replenish your spirit, it allows you to serve others from the overflow. You cannot serve from an empty vessel." —Eleanor Brownn
• "Take time to do what makes your soul happy." —Unknown
• "It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary." —Mandy Hale
• "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." —Unknown
• “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” —M. Scott Peck
• "Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. " —Ray Bradbury
• “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” —Oprah Winfrey
• “Self-care means giving yourself permission to pause.” —Cecilia Tran
• “Just when you feel you have no time to relax , know that this is the moment you most need to make time to relax.” ―Matt Haig
• “Keep taking time for yourself until you are you again.” —Lalah Delia
• "Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." —Edward Stanley
• "It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life." —Anne LaMott
• "I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival." —Audre Lorde
• "Everybody is different, and every body is different." —Beverly Diehl
• "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." —Etty Hillesum
• Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you." —Anne Lamott
• “Self-care equals success. You’re going to be more successful if you take care of yourself and you’re healthy.” —Beth Behrs
• “As important as it is to have a plan for doing work, it is perhaps more important to have a plan for rest, relaxation, self-care, and sleep.” ―Akiroq Brost
• “Self-care has become a new priority—the revelation that it’s perfectly permissible to listen to your body and do what it needs.” ―Frances Ryan

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