Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust!
As I type this I’m eagerly anticipating my next overseas trip. I’m leaving to Doha next week, then off to Frankfurt (instead of London due to plan changes) for a few days, before heading to Barcelona. The trip is part business, part pleasure - the two going hand-in-hand if you know how.
This trip comes in handy too. To be honest, this past few weeks has been really busy. And while busy=GOOD, when you’re too engrossed in one too many deadlines, you need a detour from everyday life to breath some fresh air and clear your mind. It’s also great knowing that with the current work, new and exciting work awaits my return thanks to Cosmedia’s client base growing as it is.
I often get asked why I travel as much as I do. My answers usually relate to a deep desire to learn new cultures, stretch my boundaries, and cultivate new relationships, while at the same time being open to new opportunities and appreciating the country I always come back to, South Africa.
I came across some great quotes that explain this with greater clarity. If you’re juggling the decision of whether you should travel or not, I hope the below inspires you to find the means to explore the world.
Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust!
“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” - Samuel Johnson
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” - Rudyard Kipling
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine
“Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That’s not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.” - Michael Crichton
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” - Aldous Huxley
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” - Mark Jenkins
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” - Paul Theroux
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” - Moorish proverb
“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” - Freya Stark
“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” - James Michener
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon
“A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” - Moslih Eddin Saadi
And my four personal favourites:
“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
“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
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” - Maya Angelou
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” - Susan Sontag
What are your favourite travel quotes?
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