Thought Catalog

13 Quotes Every Wanderlust Soul Will Appreciate

All I've wanted in the world was to see the whole of it.
Kirsten Corley
November 25, 2016
“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, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
Tagged: travel, Experiences
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Tagged: travel, Courage, Adventure, Bravery, Leaving, Money
“All I have ever really wanted out of the world is to see the whole of it.”
— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia
Tagged: See The World, Travel The World, travel
“Sometimes, something magical happens when you travel: you remember exactly why you’re doing it, and you’re so happy and present in that moment. Sometimes it’s the people you meet; sometimes it’s the places you’re at.”
— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia
Tagged: travel, Why We Travel, The Highs Of Travel
“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
“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, The New Lifetime Reading Plan
Tagged: Life In Transit, Life Is A Journey, Architecture Of Happiness, travel, Homesickness
“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, Kingdom Without Borders
Tagged: Architecture Of Happiness, Pursuit of Happiness, Love, travel, Homesickness
“One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.”
— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad
Tagged: Wisdom, wholesome, Views, Men, humanity, Value, Experiences, travel, Learning, Growing Up, different, exchange, abroad, Culture, expanding, expand the mind, Acceptance, improve yourself, Self-awareness, inclusiveness, international, Meaning
“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.”
— Caskie Stinnett, Back To Abnormal
Tagged: Wanderlust, travel, Routine
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”
— Anonymous, via Pinterest
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Escaping, Escape
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Exploring, Traveling
“You don’t need to be rich to travel—you just need to travel smart.”
— Matthew Kepnes, How to Travel the World on $50 a Day: Revised: Travel Cheaper, Longer, Smarter
Tagged: travel
“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything”
— Jonah Leher, Why We Travel
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Creativity, Home