There is no question that we live in a beautiful world full of amazing things and places. Sometimes all we have to do is hear the “wake up bell“, break out of the everyday routine and travel while we still can. I hope these inspiring quotes will make do just that.
1. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– Augustine of Hippo
3. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
4. “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
– Ernest Hemingway
5. “To travel is to live.”
– Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
6. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– Henry Miller
7. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”
– Wendell Berry, A Place on Earth
8. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
– Michael Palin
9. “Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
– Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies
10. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
11. “Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”
– Michael Mewshaw
12. “I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.”
– Justina Chen
13. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
– Lin Yutang
14. “There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.”
– Kate Douglas Wiggin, New Chronicles of Rebecca
15. “To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.”
– John Tibbetts
16. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher
17. “Once a year, go someplace you`ve never been before”
– Dalai Lama
18. “Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE…!”
– Sujit Lalwani, Life Simplified!
19. “I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends.”
– Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift
20. “Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.”
– C. JoyBell C.
21. “When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go”
– Vivek Thangaswamy