For the quietly restless
There is a word for what you have been feeling. Someone already wrote it down.
You have done well by every measure that was supposed to matter, and something still will not settle. The writers here felt it too, and found the words for it first.
Where are you on the path?
Four people tend to arrive here. Find out which one is you.
Twelve questions. At the end, a short reflection on where you are and the reading that fits it.
- The Someday Thinker
- The Golden Handcuffs
- The Late Night Researcher
- The Departure Lounge
The restlessness has a name
Other people felt it first, and wrote it down
There is a next step that is not quitting everything
Three ways into Quotes on Travel
Wherever you are with the question, there is a door. Take the one that speaks to you.
Escape
The slow, long way to travel, and the case for building a life around it.
Stories
The writers who left, or wanted to, and what the leaving taught them.
Quotes
Lines that have outlived their authors, chosen for depth, not for the caption.
Browse the quote collections
One page per theme. Every line sourced, attributed and chosen to earn its place.
The idea underneath
Vagabonding, not escape
There is a quieter tradition than quitting it all. It treats time, not money, as the real wealth, and travel as a way of paying attention. It is the thread running under every quote we keep.
- Time is the currency, not money
- Depth of attention over distance covered
- The long way is the point, not the detour
The full essay is on its way.
I have also realized that vacation is insufficient to sustain my travel needs; I need to immerse myself more thoroughly to satisfy my desire to learn about a new place.
Jodi Ettenberg, Why I Quit My Job to Travel Around the World, Legal Nomads (2010)
This season
When summer asks the harder question
The out-of-office is on, the beach is booked, and still something is unfinished. A short seasonal reading on travelling for more than a break.
The stories behind the quotes
Start here
A fixed, hand-picked shelf, not a feed. The pieces worth reading first.
Quote list
100 best travel quotes, organised by theme
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