15 travel quotes that inspire me
What inspires you?
I'll tell you what inspires me... Travel. Everything about discovering new places, meeting new people and trying new foods makes me want to do it more. I have this thirst for exploring that can't and shouldn't be quenched. It is easy to get caught up in the stresses of life, searching for material affirmation that we are succeeding in life. Every year, we make resolutions. These promises to ourselves, often broken, help us categorize the aspects of our lives that we feel we need to work on in order to find that illusive happiness and better ourselves. In my adult years, my resolutions have all generally been the same: To travel more.
I believe that travel opens our eyes and takes down our walls. It inspires me to be a better person and believe in causes greater than myself. So here we are. It's the start of a new year and I am making it my mission to make you wanderlust... crave new surroundings, new flavors and new stories. Here are 15 quotes that I hold dear and, I hope, will get you started.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”- Mark Twain
"Not all those who wander are lost."- J.R.R. Tolkien
"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - Augustine of Hippo
"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." - Terry Pratchett
"Travel brings power and love back into your life." - Jalaluddin Rumi
"She is free in her wilderness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn't something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water." - Roman Payne
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself." - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust
"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." - G.K. Chesterton
"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." - Gustave Flaubert
"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
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber
"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there." - Pascal Mercier
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." - Samuel Johnson
"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
What is your next travel destination? I hope that 2017 is your year to go out and explore new corners of the earth!
