Quotes can be preachy and cheesy and downright silly sounding sometimes, depending on who said them of course. But I love them nonetheless. In fact, I have a small notepad dedicated entirely to writing down quotes I really like. Reading the words of someone else can help you see something in a different way, allow you to get a better attitude about something, or inspire you. They can bring you back to another time, an entirely new place, to when you were someone else. Some of my favorite quotes have to do with travelling, so I thought I'd share a few of them to inspire your wanderlust/travel bug/whatever you prefer to call it.
1. "Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" - Lisa St. Aubin de Terán
2. “Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and in this hasn’t changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.” - John Berger
3. "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag
4. "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot
5. “And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do." - Georgia O'Keeff
7. "Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery." - Amy Chua
8. "…travel widely, eat adventurously, love passionately, dare with abandon, learn with a voracious appetite, risk being hurt, get far outside of your comfort zone." - Joyce DiDonato
9. "Traveling messes you up, but in all the good ways. It leaves you always craving more, an addiction that can never quite be met. Every place, every trip, every person is a new adventure; pulling you deeper into the love of wanderlust. Your heart begins to hurt when you’re standing still, and your mind begins to itch over the idea of new places you haven’t been. Fill your soul with adventure and traveling and you will live a fulfilled life." - Unknown
10. "Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul." - Jaime Lyn Beatty
Whether you're traveling to the next state, across the country, or around the world, take inspiration from these quotes to take in as much as you can and enjoy each moment. Now it's up to you to take that desire to travel and turn it into action. Good luck.
