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21 Travel Quotes to inspire and motivate
..and answer the question "Why Travel?"
You ask, "Why Travel?"
I say "Why Not!"
For me Travel is not a choice.
It rejuvenates mind, body and soul and in a way it's as essential as Oxygen.
Ok Ok so you won't die but then you won't be living life either.
Apparently I am not alone when it comes to talking so highly of Travel.
I knew you will ask for proof.
Well that's exactly why I collected 20 + 1 of my favorite travel quotes below
and paired them with my images from around the world.
Now I just hope that at least one of these will inspire and motivate you (and everyone else)
to stop reading this and get up and start packing for your next travel adventure.
#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
Location: Death Valley National Park, California
#2. “Adventure is worthwhile.”
– Aesop
Location: Oahu, Hawaii
#3. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”
– Chuck Thompson
Location: Death Valley National Park, California
#4. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
– Gustave Flaubert
Location: Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
#5. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
– Anonymous
Location: Channel Islands National Park, California
#6. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
#7. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
– Saint Augustine
Location: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska
#8. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
– Andre Gide
Location: Vancouver, Canada
#9. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Location: Santa Monica, California
#10. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”
– Anonymous
Location: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska
#11. “Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
Location: Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado
#12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
#13. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Neale Donald Walsch
Location: Arches National Park, Utah
#14. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
– Ibn Battuta
Location: Badlands National Park, South Dakota
#15. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”
– Clint Borgen
Location: Rajasthan, India
#16. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.”
– Babs Hoffman
Location: Dallas, Texas
#17. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.”
– Eugene Fodor
Location: El Matador Beach, California
#18. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
– Freya Stark
Location: New York, New York
#19. “He who would travel happily must travel light.”
– Antoine de St. Exupery
Location: Rajasthan, India
#20. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller
Location: Arches National Park, Utah
#21. Ok so this last one is kind of anti-travel but I hope you get the point.
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”
– James Michener
Location: New York, New York
