Because we could all use a little more positivity right about now, and the world, as John Steinbeck puts it, is “peopled with wonders.”
“And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again — to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” —Pico Iyer
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” —Hilaire Belloc
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” —Neale Donald Walsch
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” —Ray Bradbury
“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” —Moorish proverb
“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” —Irving Wallace
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — St. Augustine
“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.” —Wally Lamb
“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
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru
“Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.” —Ian Fleming
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” —Freya Stark
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” —John Muir
“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” — Eugene Fodor
“…a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
“Travel. Meet many people. Go down some dead ends and explore dark alleys. Try everything. Exhaust yourself in the glorious pursuit of life.” — Lawrence K. Fish
“Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” —Ibn Battuta
“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
“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 Andersen
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” —Anatole France
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” —Anthony Bourdain
“One person’s Nowhere is another person’s Everywhere.” —Don George
“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” —Freya Stark
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” —Carl Sagan
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” —Anaïs Nin
“Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.” —Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” —Bill Bryson
“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It is lethal.” —Paulo Coelho
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching.” —Gerard Way
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” —Jack Kerouac