Traveling inspires. Travel teaches. Travel is so much more than a getaway. Below is a round-up of wisdom that highlights the heart and soul of traveling, overlaid atop some of my very own trip captures. What are some of your favorite sayings for the wanderlust?
INSPIRATIONAL TRAVEL QUOTES
“One’s destination is never a place, but always a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“If you’re hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living” – Mary Butter Beard
“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
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” – JRR Tolkien
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world” – Gustave Flaubert
“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Mohamed
“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
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine