Why do you travel? To challenge yourself? Experience new things? Escape daily life? Whatever your motivations the following quotes sum up perfectly what inspires us to see the world:

1. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page” ~ St. Augustine

2. “Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien

3. “It is not down in any map; true places never are” ~ Herman Melville

4. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow” ~ Lin Yutang

5. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment” ~ Hilaire Belloc

6. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

7. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

8. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it” ~ Rudyard Kipling

9. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” ~ Aldous Huxley

10. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes” ~ Marcel Proust

11. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings” ~ Moslih Eddin Saadi

12. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things” ~ Henry Miller

13. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles” ~ Tim Cahill

14. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land” ~ G. K. Chesterton

15. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled” ~ Mohammed
 

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