Quotes That Inspire Wanderlust

Today, September 27^th is World Tourism Day! In celebration of that I thought I would share my favorite quotes that inspire wanderlust!

Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. – Helen Keller

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – Augustine of Hippo

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer.— John Perry Barlow

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Traveling can never be taken for granted, no matter how meticulous the preparations. — Eugene Linden

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

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

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. –Azar Nafisi

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough — Mae West

Travel is not really about leaving our homes but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer

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 Teran

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet, he said. – Rachel Wolchin

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us – J.R.R. Tolkien

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney

I can’t think of anything that excites 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 only have the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. – Bill Bryson

Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn. – Nyssa P. Chopra

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. – John Muir

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness – Mark Twain

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