Words and images are powerful. They have the can make you want to change your life. I've shared many of my travel stories with you, now I will share my inspiration with you. These are some of my favorite people and their thoughts on traveling. I hope they inspire and motivate you as much as they do me. Here's to planning your next journey.
1. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”2. “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle3. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”– Anthony Bourdain4. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”-Roy M. Goodman
5. "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.”― Mark Twain
6. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
7. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert
8. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
9. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”
10. “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen
11. “The journey not the arrival matters.” –T.S. Eliot
12. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”
13. “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.” – Jawaharial Nehru
14. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar
15. "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
16. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller
17. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
18. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” -James Michener
19. “Go, fly, roam, travel, voyage, explore, journey, discover, adventure.”
20. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” -Martin Buber
21. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” -Agustine of Hippo
22. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” -Bill Bryson
23. “Not all those who wander are lost.” -J.R.R. Tolkien
24. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” -Lawrence Block
25. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Life is short and the world is wide”
27. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”-Anaïs Nin
28. “Life is a journey. Make the best of it.”
29. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery
30. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer”
31. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
32. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli
33. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”― Jack Kerouac
34. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -Aldous Huxley
35. “Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures.”
36. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but it will never leave your soul.”
37. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
38. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” -Alan Keightley
39. “Oh the places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
40. “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan”
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