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28 Quotes Every Wanderlust Soul Can Relate To

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow
Brianna Wiest
August 29, 2016
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
— Naguib Mahfouz, No Title
Tagged: Home, Wanderlust, travel
“I want to touch every grain of sand on every beach and swim in every ocean so I can tell you how different the waters are. I want to learn to say hello in every language and sleep under different skylines so I can tell you how different the stars are. I want to the hear the magic that I know is in the air that is never the same in two places. I want to get sunburnt and lost and find my way so that and the end of the day, I can tell you how wonderful being lost really is because it means you get to find your way back.”
— Claire Windsor, What I Mean When I Say Wanderlust
Tagged: Nature, Awe Of Nature, positive, Wanderlust, Traveling, Exploring The World
“Each time I walk into a hostel I make five new friends, each time a local takes interest in why I’m alone, I get invited to a family dinner or a cool local ceremony.”
— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering
Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life, Opportunity, Free Spirit, Wanderlust
“Traveling shows us that we have more similarities with people from other cultures than differences, that the world isn’t that scary after all, and that people are fundamentally good.”
— Kristin Addis, 22 Ways Traveling Alone Changes You For The Better
Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World, Earth, Culture, humanity
“The longer she travels on her own, the more likely she is to prioritize experiences above all else. Stilettos and purses will lose their luster; she’ll crave far off places and splurge on plane tickets instead.”
— Kristin Addis, 6 Ways A Woman’s Life Is Changed Forever When She Travels Alone
Tagged: travel, Womanhood, Lifestyle, Wanderlust
“I'm in love with cities I've never been to and people I've never met.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Wanderlust, Traveling, Love, My Favorites
“Travelling isn’t always about running away from things, sometimes it’s about running into what you truly want.”
— American Nomad On Twitter, You Back Packing
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Psychology, Technology of Wishing, Love, Adventure
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
— Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Philosp, Storytelling, Power, Adventure
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god damn mountain.”
— Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Adventure, Lust For Life, Writers
“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.”
— Pico Iyer, Video Night In Kathmandu
Tagged: travel, Love, Adventure, Love Affair, Wanderlust
“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
Tagged: Traveling, Wanderlust, Life Changes, The Choice
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
— Mark Twain
Tagged: Life Hacks, Exploring, Dream, Discover, Traveling, Comfort Zone
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
— Caskie Stinnett, Back To Abnormal
Tagged: Wanderlust, travel, Routine
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Exploring, Traveling
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
— Anita Desai, Clear Light of Day
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses
“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1 (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
— Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
— G.K. Chesterton, The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)
“I read; I travel; I become.”
— Derek Walcott, The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Modern Library Classics)
“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher, Courage Doesn't Always Roar
“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
— Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch