Quotes about Vacations

Do you spend more time planning a vacation than you do planning your life?


Think of life as a voyage. The truest liver of the truest life is like a voyager who, as he sails, is not indifferent to all the beauty of the sea around him.
Phillips Brooks

Be an explorer. The universe is filled with wonder and magical things.
Flavia

Find what brings you joy and go there.
Jan Phillips

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.
Margaret Laurence

No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell.
Jewish Proverb

Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses,
Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

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

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle



Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.
Jan Myrdal

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.
Will Wright

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.
Kin Hubbard

We need to develop a "vacation attitude" every day by being focused on what we need to accomplish by the end of each day.
Catherine Pulsifer, A Vacation Attitude

Vacation - A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
Author Unknown

In simple terms, it is sometimes better to let your mind go to zero where you are not consciously trying to arrive at an answer or solution. In order to take this mini zero vacation, you probably will best be doing something totally different from whatever it is you are attempting to overcome or resolve.
Byron Pulsifer, The Zero Vacation

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

The point is this: if you do what you love, it doesn't matter in the least that a vacation has to end. If you love what you do you will not find yourself wishing for even a few more days of vacation, or wishing that you could keep enjoying this vacation for much, much longer.
Byron Pulsifer, Happy To Return

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive disenchanted.
Japanese Proverb

It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.
Earl Nightingale

Travel not only stirs the blood. . . It also gives strength to the spirit.
Florence Prag Kahn


Happiness is a day spent at the beach
Beach Signs at Wall Art



"A good vacation is
over when you begin
to yearn for your work."

Morris Fishbein



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"A vacation is
having nothing to do
and all day to do it in."

Robert Orben

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