Looking for a little inspiration? Do you need some words to inspire you to book that ticket? Are you ready for an adventure but just need that final push?
Sometimes a simple sentence can pack so much power that it will inspire you to take that step that you’ve been dreaming about, or do the thing that is sitting in the back of your mind — be brave!
Here are a few quotes that I hope will inspire you to do that thing that you can’t stop thinking about.
“I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying
‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had…’”
—Florine Bos
“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
—John Muir
“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.”
—Unknown
“Sometimes we just need some time in a beautiful place to clean our head.”
—Unknown
“Life sucks a lot less when you add mountain air, a campfire and some peace and quiet.”
—Brooke Hampton
“So much of who we are is where we have been.”
—W. Langewiesche
“Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.”
—Anonymous
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky — all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
—Cesare Pavese
“Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
—Unknown
“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.”
—Anthony Bourdain
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
—Elenor Roosevelt
“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
—John Muir
Meet The Author
Lindsay Shapka is an avid traveler and the creator of The Anthrotorian — a website dedicated to sharing travel tips, stories about adventures, culture quirks, artists you should know, fascinating bits of history, and more!
She is also an artist, marketing specialist, editor, and freelance writer who has work featured on websites, blogs, and in magazines like National Geographic Traveler.
Budapest, the capital city of Hungary, is a fascinating city. It's perched right on the border between Western and Eastern Europe and with that comes a complicated history.
Until the late 1980s Hungry was communist, not moving to a democratic government until 1989. There is also a heavy influence from ancient Roman and Turkish occupation that has led to an interesting mix of architecture, culture, and historic spots to visit.