Because I know that you’re still thinking if you should do it or not, I want to share with you the list of my inspirational quotes for 2016. I hope it will make you pack your luggage, choose a destination and leave to unknown in order to discover the world.
My favourite is no. 17
1.“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
2.“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
3.“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
4.“For the born traveler travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victims’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.”-Aldous Huxley
5.“Perhaps travel can not 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
6.“Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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
7.“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius
8.“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
9.“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
10.“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
11.“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
12.“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart
13.“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.” – Daniel J. Boorstin
14.“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”-Mohamed
15. “After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.” – Jim Harrison
16.“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
17.“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
18.“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
19. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
20.“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
21.“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ~ Matthew Karsten
22.“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
23.“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
24.“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
25.“Jobs fill your pocket adventures fill your soul.”-Jaime Lyn Beatty
Which one was your favorite? Please leave a comment below.