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50 Awesome Travel Light Quotes That Will Change Your Travels

If you ever came across our blog, you know we’re all about extreme minimalist travel and traveling light. We also made an ultimate minimalist packing list, a list of our favorite minimalist travel accessories and have made a mistake of the most common packing mistakes and in this article, we’ll focus on some of our favorite travel light quotes that will change your travels and motivate you to take a step towards coming to the other (minimalistic) side.

Simple But Effective Travel Light Quotes

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  1. “Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” – Harbhajan Singh Yogi.
  2. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese.
  3. “I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.” – Diane von Furstenberg.
  4. “Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
  5. “He who must travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
  6. “I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier.” – Madeleine L’Engle.
  7. “We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.” – John Stott.
  8. “Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face.” – Katrina Kittle
  9. “Traveling light allows you to move freely, both physically and mentally.” – Unknown.

Enjoying this post? Then you may also like our list of funny travel quotes and our favorite wanderlust quotes.

Adventure Travel Quotes

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

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

12. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot.

13. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca.

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

15. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu.

16. “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.” – Tim Cahill.

17. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.

18. “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.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

19. “Travel far, travel wide, but travel light. Leave all your burdens behind.” – Unknown.

Minimalism & Traveling Light Quotes

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20. “The lighter your baggage, the fuller your travels, the richer your stories.” – Alex Leviton.

21. “Carry only what you need to be free.” – Pico Iyer.

22. “Travel light and you can sing in the robber’s face.” – Katrina Kittle.

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

24. “Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

25. “He who must travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

26. “I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.” – Madeleine L’Engle.

27. “We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.” – John Stott.

28. “What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really ‘travel light.'” – Robert Creeley.

29. “I travel light in general and I don’t think I have ever had to check a bag.” – Eden Sher.

30. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.” – Robert Louis Stevenson.

Happiness & Travel Light Quotes

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31. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block.

32. “Traveling light is not about what you leave behind, but what you carry within.” – Unknown.

33. “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.

34. “Travel light, live light, and be the light.” – Debasish Mridha.

35. “Women can’t travel light. We’re in charge of the basic facts.” – Hortense Calisher.

36. “I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!” – Sigrid Agren.

37. “Traveling light is not about what you leave behind, but what you carry within.” – Unknown.

38. “Traveling light allows you to move freely, both physically and mentally.” – Unknown.

39. “Travel far, travel wide, but travel light. Leave all your burdens behind.” – Unknown.

40. “Traveling light is a choice to live in the moment and savor every step of the journey.” – Unknown.

Travel Light Quotes By Yours Truly

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Last but not least, I’ll wrap up this list with a few travel light quotes from my upcoming book (stay tuned for more)…

41. “Pack the essentials, and you’ll be able to carry the world with you”.

42. “The less you have to carry, the more you can bring back”.

43. “Travel is richest when your baggage is poorest”. 

44. “In travel, the lightest packers are the richest travelers”. 

45. “Less baggage, more stories; less weight, more memories”. 

46. “The road less traveled is easier with a lighter load”. 

47. “A traveler’s joy is directly proportional to the lightness of their backpack“. 

48. “Traveling light is about letting go of the unnecessary and savoring the essential”. 

49. “Traveling light is a way of letting go and embracing the unknown”. 

50. “The best souvenirs are the ones that don’t weigh down your bag” – Yours Truly.

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