"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
Well-being
"I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times."
- Anthony Bourdain
Happiness
"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
Personal Growth
"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
Ambition
"Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul."
- Jamie Lyn Beatty
Aspirations
"Life’s short. Eat dessert first, work less, and vacation MORE!"
- Lea Mishell
Joy
"You cannot discover new oceans unless you dare to lose sight of the shore."
- André Gide
Taking Risks
"Vacations are necessities, not luxuries."
- Linda Bloom
Empowerment
"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."
- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness
"Trips and vacations are so much more. These experiences show you what’s possible and challenge you to examine the paths you’ll take in the future."
- Blake Mycoskie
Personal Growth
"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."
- Robert Orben
Contentment
"To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice."
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Aspirations
"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet."
- Rachel Wolchin
Independence
"A wise man travels to discover himself."
- James Russell Lowell
Personal Growth
"Do not wait until you are dying to go on vacation. I think if I had to give you one piece of advice that would be it. We put things off. We do not mean to, but we do. We carry around the assumption that there is plenty of time to do whatever needs to be done."
- Marty Cauley
Motivation
"The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind."
- Jack Adam Weber
Inner Peace
"My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean."
- Nina Arianda
Joy
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
- Milton Berle
Joy
"Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before."
- Dalai Lama
Aspirations
"I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food."
- Alexander Babinets
Belief
"To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."
- Charles Horton Cooley
Balance
"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
Balance
"Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count."
- Muhammad Ali
Motivation
"In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy or game you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them."
- Kevin Heath
Family
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
- Ernest Hemingway
Love
"Think about it; how do you feel when you are planning a vacation? You feel excited and happy. Your stress level is diminished, and this also affects your work in a positive way."
- John Morgan
Motivation
"The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation."
- Mark Twain
Success
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Reflection
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
- St. Augustine
Knowledge
"Find what brings you joy and go there."
- Jan Phillips
Joy
"Chilling out on the bed in your hotel room watching television, while wearing your own pajamas, is sometimes the best part of a vacation."
- Laura Marano
Contentment
"There’s no vacation from being a parent."
- Chevy Chase
Family
"Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation."
- Gautam Singhania
Creativity
"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."
- Max von Sydow
Joy
"It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time."
- David Brenner
Reflection
"Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'"
- Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Connection to Earth
"Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere."
- Isabelle Eberhardt
Inspiration
"A one day holiday can at times be better than a one week vacation if you totally unplug for that one day!"
- Catherine Pulsifer
Balance
"When it comes to the summer months most people start to think about where they will be going on vacation. This is the time of year when most individuals take time off of work because the kids are out of school. It is the perfect time for everyone to spend time together and to regroup from the stress that is often experienced with everyday life."
- Cindy Crawford
Family
"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule."
- Kelly Clarkson
Balance
"Last year, I came away from the vacation thoroughly bloated and ten pounds heavier, convinced I’d blocked an artery and possibly shortened my lifespan by a few months. But I was also deliriously contented, which is surely what it’s all about."
- Cash Peters
Happiness
"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me."
- Will Wright
Mindfulness
"A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia."
- Evan Esar
Reflection
"The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
Mindfulness
"Moderation in exercise, eating and amusement is the best guarantee of a beneficial vacation."
- Ollie Reeves
Health
"An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate."
- Jaime Kurtz
Aspirations
"My favorite place to vacation is any place by the ocean."
- Nina Arianda
Nature
"Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Learning
"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."
- Susan Sontag
Aspirations
"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking."
- Earl Wilson
Reflection
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
- Sam Keen
Contentment
"What paradise and vacation have in common is that you have to pay for both, and the coin is your previous life."
- Joseph Brodsky
Philosophy
"One-week vacations are too short to prevent burnout; by the time you relax enough not to think about the office, the week is almost up."
- Cecilia Mikalac
Reflection
"After a while, just staying alive becomes a full-time job. No wonder we need a vacation."
- Michael Zadoorian
Reflection
"When all else fails, take a vacation."
- Betty Williams
Motivation
"Time well-spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation."
- Zig Ziglar
Success
"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person."
- Aimee Friedman
Transformation
"In America, there are two classes of travel: first-class and with children."
- Robert Benchley
Family
"No matter what fabulous place I visit, I don’t feel like I’m on vacation unless I’m dehydrated and covered with sunscreen."
- Chelsea Cain
Joy
"Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return."
- Island Company
Ambition
"A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work."
- Morris Fishbein
Reflection
"When I was on a two-week vacation I noticed something. The vacation lasted a good long time then suddenly it was over. Life is like that also."
- Fr. Cedric Pisegna CP
Reflection
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
- Kenneth Grahame
Reflection
"There was nothing like a Saturday – unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball."
- Nora Roberts
Aspirations
"Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need."
- Jerry Smith
Reflection
"Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
- Zig Ziglar
Reflection
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu
Adaptation
"My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."
- Gary Allan
Fitness
"Jet lag is for amateurs."
- Dick Clark
Reflection
"My goal is to hit the gym every day I’m on vacation. Usually, I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."
- Gary Allan
Fitness
"Take vacations, go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."
Contentment
"Jobs fill your pockets, but vacations fill your soul."
Well-being
"Say yes to adventure, especially in the summer."
Ambition
"Take vacations, and go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."
Aspirations
"Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated rest."
Success
"Life is better in flip flops."
Happiness
"The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and all the memories we’ve made along the way."
Connection to Earth
"Don’t worry. Beach happy."
Happiness
"I need a six month vacation, twice a year."
Aspirations
"I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords."
Happiness
"I love my job only when I’m on vacation."
- Unknown
Balance
"I googled my symptoms. Turns out, I just need a vacation."
Happiness
"I need a 6-month vacation, twice a year."
Aspirations
"Time for some Vitamin Sea."
Health
"There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation."
Contentment
"Vacation mood: on."
Happiness
"I’m all about the palm trees and 80 degrees."
Nature
"Good vibes happen on the tides."
Nature
"My first day back at work has inspired me to book my next vacation."
Happiness
"Vacation calories don’t count."
Contentment
"Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not."
Aspirations
"Excuse me while I taunt my Facebook friends with another picture of my beach vacation."
Happiness