Travelling is all about discovering ourselves and learning about other parts of the world. Here's a list of quotes that will inspire you to take on the mindset of a traveller and start booking your plane tickets.
"In the world through which I travel I am endlessly creating myself."
-Unknown
"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."
-Gautama Buddha
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
-Ella Maillart
"I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world."
-Mary Anne Radmacher
"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."
-Henry David Thoreau
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust
"I love places that make you realise how tiny you and your problems are."
-Unknown
"A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for."
-William G.T Shedd
"I am...all the cities I have ever visited."
-Jorge Luis Borges
"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
"Now more than ever do I realise that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere."
-Isabelle Eberhardt
"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are."
-Samuel Johnson
"I'd like to believe that maybe somewhere out there you have finally found that freedom you would always talk about."
- R.M. Drake
"You can make yourself enter somewhere if you believe you'll benefit from it. The natural response is to flee but people don't act that way anymore."
-Unknown
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
-Lao Tzu
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
-David Mitchell
Have these quotes convinced you yet?