Why We Travel | Inspirational Quotes To Inspire Wanderlust

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Why reinvent the wheel? A writer told me that once upon a time. So I don't.
     When others have said it perfectly, there's no room for improvement. What you read will always be evolving and growing.
     Many have put into words why we travel. These inspire us.  Here they are in one place to inspire you.

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I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. ~Susan Sontag

Not all who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ~ Helen Keller

Wherever you go becomes a part of your somehow. ~ Anita Desai

Still round the corner, there may wait a new road or a secret gate. ~ J. R R. Tolkien

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. ~Ibn Battuta

Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you. ~ Ghaniya Dewi Arassyi

There are seven days in a week but "someday" isn't one of them. ~ Benny Lewis

The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. ~ Anna Quindlen

Oh, the places you will go. ~ Dr. Seuss

Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. ~ Sheda Savage

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. ~ St. Augustine

Life is short and the world is wide. ~ Simon Raven

Do not dare not to dare. ~C. S. Lewis

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensins. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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I'm in love with the cities I've never been to and the people I've never met. ~ Melody Truong

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before. ~ Dalai Lama

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. ~ Robert Orben

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ~Andre Gide

If you're twenty-two, physically fit, 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

So much of who we are, is where we have been. ~ William Langwiesche

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain

Wander often, wonder always. ~ Unknown

People don't take trips, trips take people. ~ John Steinbeck

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.  ~Yeats

May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.  ~ T. Stewart

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ~John D. Rockefeller

It doesn't matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.
~ Proctor

It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America - in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. ~ Dwight Eisenhower

To see the world, things dangerous come to us. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. ~ The Secret Life of Walter MItty

We travel because we need to, because difference and distance are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has change, and that changes everything. ~ Unknown

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Work, Travel, Save, Repeat. ~ Unknown

Oh darling, let's be adventurers. ~ Unknown

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 will leave something good behind. ~Anthony Bourdain

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ~ Ray Bradbury

The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
~ G. K. Chesterton

Paris is always a good idea. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ~ A. Solzhenitsyn

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There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner

It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~ Herman Melville

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself. ~ Matthew Karsten

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. ~ Lawrence Block

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ~Jack Kerouac

Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. ~Shel Silverstein

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde

It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don't want to be most of us. ~ Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones 

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The journey not the arrival matters. ~ T. S. Eliot

To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in 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

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. ~Mark Twain

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. ~ David Mitchell

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. ~Stephen Covey

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see. ~Carew Papritz

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
~Ray Bradbury

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is. ~Mandy Hale

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. -- Oscar Wilde

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. — Oscar Wilde

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. ~ Ernest Hemingway

A year from now, you will wish you had started today. ~ K. Lamb

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. ~ R.Kipling