“What makes expat life so addictive is that every boring or mundane activity you experience at home (like grocery shopping, commuting to work or picking up the dry cleaning) is, when you move to a foreign country, suddenly transformed into an exciting adventure. Try finding peanut butter in a Japanes…”— Reannon Muth, takenbythewind.com
“Let’s not travel to tick things off lists, or collect half-hearted semi-treasures to be placed in dusty drawers in empty rooms. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, conte…”— Victoria Erickson, victoriaerickson.com
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”— Clifton Fadiman, goodreads.com
“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”— Clint Borgen, borgenproject.org
“When you walk alone, eat alone, take trains and planes alone, you just learn to believe that the kindness of strangers is sometimes more valuable than the insecurity of long lasting relationships in your life.”— Ioana Cristina Casapu, ioanacasapu.com
“Every new place you visit, person you encounter, new aromas you smell or things you see will make your brain unchain. It is then when your thinking will spark in new creative directions. Use this to make great things for yourself (or for others) happen. Have a project, write a blog, take cooking les…”— Laura Beltrán Villamizar, laurabelvilla.com
“Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.”— George Bailey, James Stewart, imdb.com
“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, goodreads.com
“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.”— Charlotte Eriksson, goodreads.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, goodreads.com
“Travelling 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, goodreads.com
“When we introduce ourselves to new people, we shouldn't be saying "to earn money I do this". Instead, we have to present ourselves as musicians, photographers, painters, models and muses, anything we are good at. What we do to earn money is not of the others' goddamn business, we are not our job, an…”— Nina Sever, ninasever.tumblr.com
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”— Tove Jansson, moomin.com