"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
"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
"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
"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
"Laughter is an instant vacation."
- Milton Berle
Joy
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
- Ernest Hemingway
Love
"The vacation we often need is freedom from our own mind."
- Jack Adam Weber
Inner Peace
"A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in."
- Robert Orben
Contentment
"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Reflection
"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
"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
"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
"Don’t Count The Days. Make The Days Count."
- Muhammad Ali
Motivation
"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
"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
"My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean."
- Nina Arianda
Joy
"The secret of success is making your vacation your vacation."
- Mark Twain
Success
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Read a lot when you’re on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr
Learning
"My favorite place to vacation is any place by the ocean."
- Nina Arianda
Nature
"Moderation in exercise, eating and amusement is the best guarantee of a beneficial vacation."
- Ollie Reeves
Health
"I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list."
- Susan Sontag
Aspirations
"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule."
- Kelly Clarkson
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 time to relax is when you don’t have time for it."
- Sydney J. Harris
Mindfulness
"A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic."
- Max von Sydow
Joy
"A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia."
- Evan Esar
Reflection
"On vacation, I totally unplug. I don’t bring a laptop with me."
- Will Wright
Mindfulness
"It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time."
- David Brenner
Reflection
"An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate."
- Jaime Kurtz
Aspirations
"There’s no vacation from being a parent."
- Chevy Chase
Family
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Some of your best ideas come when you’re on vacation."
- Gautam Singhania
Creativity
"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
"A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking."
- Earl Wilson
Reflection
"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
"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
"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."
- Sam Keen
Contentment
"When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thinking they could be a new person."
- Aimee Friedman
Transformation
"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
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu
Adaptation
"Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need."
- Jerry Smith
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
"Isn’t it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?"
- Zig Ziglar
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
"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
"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, and go as many places as you can. You can always make money, but you can’t always make memories."
Aspirations
"Say yes to adventure, especially in the summer."
Ambition
"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
"Time for some Vitamin Sea."
Health
"I want to vacation so long, I forget all my passwords."
Happiness
"Good vibes happen on the tides."
Nature
"I’m all about the palm trees and 80 degrees."
Nature
"I googled my symptoms. Turns out, I just need a vacation."
Happiness
"I need a 6-month vacation, twice a year."
Aspirations
"Neglecting vacation is neglecting success because every success needs accumulated rest."
Success
"I need a six month vacation, twice a year."
Aspirations
"I love my job only when I’m on vacation."
- Unknown
Balance
"There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation."
Contentment
"Life is better in flip flops."
Happiness
"Vacation mood: on."
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
"My first day back at work has inspired me to book my next vacation."
Happiness
"Just a reminder that I’m going on vacation and you’re not."
Aspirations
"Vacation calories don’t count."
Contentment
"Excuse me while I taunt my Facebook friends with another picture of my beach vacation."
Happiness