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19 Quotes For Your Next Travel Instagram Photo

"Not all who wander are lost."

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19 Quotes For Your Next Travel Instagram Photo
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We all know it seems impossible to think of the perfect Instagram caption when you need one, so I've put together a list of the perfect travel quotes for your next photo while studying abroad or on vacation:

1. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

2. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

3. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

4. “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

5. “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

6. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

7. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

8. "You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it’s too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late." -Jhumpa Lahiri

9. "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

10. "Travel should never be comfortable. If you’re comfortable, you aren’t challenging yourself. If you’re comfortable, you’re missing the point. Get outside your comfort zone, find your limits, and learn who you really are." -James Smorthwaite

11. "There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave." -Charlotte Eriksson

12. "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

13. "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 Lehrer

14. "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 yo 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 reliable cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses." -Bill Bryson

15. "You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you'll never be this way ever again." -Azar Nafasi

16. "We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. 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 Lyer

17. "We travel not just to go, we travel to evolve. Embracing new experiences, endlessly changing horizons, and each brand new day as a way of living. We live for airports, planes, buses, boats, trains, road trips. We find clarity in the blur of the places zooming past us as we look through the window. This is our home. This will always be our home" -Stephanie Dandan

18. "I got a gypsy soul to blame and I was born for leavin'" -Zac Brown Band

Finally, the perfect quote for when you return home: "It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere." -Danzy Senna

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