When I was in high school I had this incessant habit of just googling quotes that related to my life in that moment . I guess to make it seem like I had all this insight into the world. Like maybe, I had the answers. Well, that ended up being far from the truth.
Anyway, over the years I’ve come across a couple quotes about traveling and living your life and they stuck with me. They became my silent mantras in a way. Whenever, I wonder if what I am doing is worth it, I read these quotes and it just restores my faith in my objective of seeking my purpose in life. I know, seems totally idealistic. But, well, I’m an idealist.
These quotes, though, are not. They are thought-provoking, eye-opening and impactful and I hope they inspire you as much as they do me.
- Adventure is worthwhile. – Aesop (ancient greek fabulist and storyteller)
- Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta
- We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. – Anais Nin
- I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher
- Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustave Flaubert
- The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.- Anna Quindlen
- The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. – Saint Augustine
- Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. -Anonymous
- Work, travel, save, repeat. – Anonymous
- Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – Ray Bradbury
- Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. – Neale Donald Walsch
- Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien
- A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. – Alan Keightley
- I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag
- Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less travelled by. – Robert Frost
- Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. – Lawrence Block
- And then there is the most dangerous risk of all- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. – Randy Komisar
- I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – Melody Truong
- Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s ok. 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 leave something good behind. – Anthony Bourdain.
- Don’t count the days. Make the days count. – Muhammad Ali
- My Favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been. – Diane Arbus
- And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. – Louis Armstrong
- So much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche