20 more travel quotes you probably haven’t heard before

…or maybe you have because you follow me on Instagram. 

I’ve always had a thing for quotes, and enjoy searching through the interwebs for quotes that inspire me to travel, adventure, and live life to the fullest. There are certain travel quotes that tend to be way oversaturated in this digital age, and the quotes below are (hopefully) not among that list…not yet anyway!

Since I haven’t been able to share many photos from our time in Europe yet, I decided to add a few of them into this post as a little preview. :)

Happy wanderlusting!

“Don’t be afraid of change. You may end up losing something good, but you will probably end up gaining something better.” — Unknown

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” — Rosalia de Castro

“Our happiness moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.” — Edward Abbey

“Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” — Gayle Forman

“…life is short and the world is wide.” — Simon Raven

“He who is outside his door already has the hardest part of his journey behind him. “ — Dutch Proverb

“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, bit it is always invigorating. “— Michael Crichton

“You lose site of things, and when you travel, everything balances out. “  — Daranna Gidel

“Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” — Mother Teresa

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” — Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excited a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only a rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross the street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.” — Nora Roberts

 

“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” — Mohandas K. Gandhi

“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by  the unforgettable thread of wasted time.”  — Donald Miller

“Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” — Margot Fonteyn

“For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite, and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.” — Alex Garland, The Beach

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou

“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

“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” — Diane Ackerman

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