20 Favorite Quotes to Inspire the Traveler in Us All
Just like how visionary artists can create pieces of art that uncover what we deeply feel but cannot say, meaningful quotes can bring to light deep insights and expand our understanding of life and each other. The same can be said of travel in that case. Leaving your comfort zone, interacting with exotic cultures and witnessing new landscapes can only expand one’s wisdom and empathy.
Below, I have compiled some of my favorite travel quotes that have made an impact on me. They brilliantly put into simple words what we all might have already known all along. What’s more, I think these quotes can also apply to our everyday lives even when not vagabonding the globe; when we come across something unknown, foreign or frightening to us. It’s a reminder to do something that scares you everyday and shine a light unto thyself.
Enjoy and here’s to the life we create for ourselves!
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QUOTES
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous
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“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
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“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
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“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
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“Nothing develops intelligence like travel.” – Emile Zola
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“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain
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“We travel to change, not of place, but ideas.” – Hippolyte Taine
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The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
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“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
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“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
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“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
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“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor
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“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
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“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen
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“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
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“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
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“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
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“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
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“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
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“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien