AmyHuang
Some inspirational travel quotes
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 in The Fairy Tale of My Life, 1833.
- Hans Christian Andersen in The Fairy Tale of My Life, 1833.
Doesn't this just summarise what it means to be a traveller? I love this quote, especially the "to gain all while you give" reflect how I feel about voluntourism. By helping communities in need while you travel, you learn a lot about yourself, about values and about life. To travel, is indeed to live, especially when "the world is a book, those who do not travel only read a page" (Saint Augustine).
Here are some other favourites of mine:
“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
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
and lastly::
'Not all those who wander are lost.' – J. R. R. Tolkien
What are some of your favourite travel quotes?
