These are quotes from travellers, authors, writers, thinkers, explorers and more, whose words have inspired me to remember the reason I love to travel — it pulls me out of my head, my day-to-day life, and inspires me to explore new spaces and places.
Read More10 Quotes By Paulo Coelho To Inspire Your Next Adventure
After reading only a few pages of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, I knew that I was hooked for life on the writing of this inspiring Brazilian novelist.
These are only a few of my favorite quotes, from some of his most popular books, that are sure to inspire you to take a risk on that next adventure!
Read MoreTravel Quiz: Which Travel Quote Describes You Best?
Are you the type who is ready for a rugged adventure and content to live out of a backpack for days on end? Or, do you prefer to indulge in luxury and spend your days enjoying the sunshine by the pool? Maybe you're the type that likes to blend in with the crowd and get immersed in the sights and sounds of a foreign culture.
Read More10 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Explore The World
There's nothing like a good travel quote to inspire you to pack your bags and take off on an adventure!
I am a sucker for quotes of any kind, and you can usually find me with a pen in hand when I'm reading ready to underline a favourite quote or jot it down to reference later. It's amazing the power that one or two sentences can hold when you need a little inspiration.
Read More19 Quotes To Inspire Adventure
"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
—George Bernard Shaw
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it."
—John Steinbeck
Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Next Adventure
“Creativity is not a competition.”
—Autumn Sky Hall
“The cost of not following your dream, your heart, or your gut, is spending the rest of your life wishing that you had.”
—Unknown
“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote, to travel is to live.”
—Hans Christian Anderson
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
—Seth Godin
“Above all, try something.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Good things come to those who book flights.”
“the earth has music for those who listen”
—Shakespeare
“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are”
—Edith Wharton
“If you look like your passport photo, you probably need the trip.”
—Unknown
“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 have only 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, “Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe”
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”
—Unknown
“Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”
—Asian Proverb
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”
—Rachel Wolchin
“My favourite thing is to go where I’ve never been.”
—Unknown
"Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin."
—Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert from Eat, Prey, Love
“It’s bad manners to keep an adventure waiting.”
—Unknown
“After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.”
—Nicolas Bouvier
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
—Mary Anne Radmacher
Why I Always Go For a Run In a New City (and you should too!)
Some of my favourite travel memories have come from runs that I have gone on in foreign countries.
I'm not talking about organized races with thousands of participants. No, I'm talking about a solo jog that forces you to wake up early before the crowds take over the street and shows you a side of the city that you would never see if you were just walking around.
Why is running in a foreign city so great?
Well, first of all, you are usually up earlier than normal, which means that the streets are empty giving you an unobstructed view of the city. The warm morning light illuminates stonework that you never saw before and you can almost imagine what it would be like to live there.
And that moves me to my next point — if you are running in a country where physical activity is normal, you become almost invisible, you are now looked at as a local, part of the place, and not a tourist. (On the other hand, if you are visiting a country where going for a run isn't normal, it will be painfully obvious. In some countries I was completely ignored when I ran by, in others I was stared at, and in others I have been yelled at and whistled at. But, I have never felt threatened.)
Not bogged down by cameras, guide books, and bags full of miscellaneous items that you would normally take out on a day of touring around, you are truly free to just take in the sights and sounds of the new would around you.
Running has taken me past Frances Mayes' house in Tuscany, through the royal gardens at the Schonbrunn Palace in Austria, over cobblestone streets in Amsterdam, and past ruined buildings and over white sand in Phuket.
Give it a try — you never know where your feet might take you!
