Inspirational Quotes

Life is fast, and I’ve found it’s easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I’m slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us.

~ Andrew Forsthoefel

To get away from one's working environment is; in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

~ Charles Horton Cooley

She soars with eagles and navigates by rainbows.

~ Lesley Hazleton

Tea drinking is a liturgy of comfort, and we partake of it everywhere in the world. It’s a ceremony of simplicity, nourishment for both the nomads in foreign teahouses and homebodies in their beds.

~ Tsh Oxenreider

I know, in my soul, that a love for travel is a gift and not a hindrance. It feels like a burden when the bucket list is bigger than the bank account, but a thirst for more of the world is not something to apologize for. Denying its presence feels like denying something good in me, something God put there. Wanderlust has a reputation as the epitome of unrequited love, something the young and naive chase after because they don’t yet realize it’s as futile as a dog chasing its tail. Turns out, ever-burning wanderlust is a good thing.

~ Tsh Oxenreider

Be brave. You didn't travel this far to languish within the walls of your comfortable self.

~ Sandra Vischer

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.

~ Colleen Mariotti

I only had to drop acid once to know that Timothy Leary was right about questioning authority.Motorcycling is like life. There's nothing solid about it. Something not even the asphalt under your tires.Time on a motorcycle is unlike time spent anywhere else. There are moments lost in the landscape, seconds devoted solely to balance, and long stretches spent spiraling inward.

~ Barbara Schoichet

Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

~ Michael Holbrook

Perhaps it is the setting, rules tend to reduce their grip when you cross borders.

~ Rita Golden Gelman

He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.

~ Jack Kerouac

It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, why it has always been so easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionarily adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes. McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme.

~ Jon Krakauer

Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them...But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.

~ Morgan Matson

Although I had savored my solitude, there was a big difference between enjoying time to myself and feeling lonely. I had no reason to feel lonely because Lord Krishna, my friend and ever well-wisher, was with me the entire time.

~ Samita Sarkar

I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage “truth is stranger than fiction.” Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.

~ Dan Grajek

Ah, Toulouse, you have travelled too much. You know the gods of a hundred lands, those of the trees and mountains, the sky and sea, the stars and planets, of demons and angels, and even the Master of the Cosmos. But I am speaking of God. There are others, I’m sure, but only one God who created even great Zeus and Rama. Yet travel is like philosophy: a few years of it will perk the eye to differences, which you shall be able to notice with ease. Yet living as I have, travelling to lonely lands and through a thousand metropolises and hidden woods, you rather see the similarities. All becomes one, and God too becomes one. Not the sum of all those gods here, but beyond them, a being few philosophers have truly grasped. He has always been one, but he is severed in our minds. So it is up to us to piece him back together. If our souls possess a clarity beyond what our mortal nature can bestow, we shall see him.

~ Mary-Jean Harris

It was as simply as that. And as complex.

~ Svetlana Meritt

Life is way too short to get lost, so follow the script the way it comes and keep changing the checkpoints on every page.

~ Neetesh Dixit

In other words, where we are is vital to who we are.

~ Éric Weiner

There is no right way--only the way that is put before you.

~ Jake T. Forbes

Wanderlust, the very strong or irresistible impulse to travel, is adopted untouched from the German, presumably because it couldn't be improved upon. Workarounds like the French passion du voyage don't quite capture the same meaning. Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly; it's something more animal and more fickle - something more like lust. We don't lust after many things in life. We don't need words like worklust or homemakinglust.

~ Elisabeth Eaves

Your Eyes Travel a Thousand Miles,But your mind will travel even more

~ Annabella Cavanagh

Time is Short. Take Time to Travel.

~ Barbara K Olson

Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. The ice looked colder and more mysterious, the sky a cleaner shade of blue. The unnamed peaks towering over the glacier were bigger and comelier and infinitely more menacing than they would have been were I in the company of another person. And my emotions were similarly amplified: The highs were higher; the periods of despair were deeper and darker. To a self-possessed young man inebriated with the unfolding drama of his own life, all of this held enormous appeal.

~ Jon Krakauer

I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shadow.

~ Jess Riley

Walk on your sacred path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

We'd all be lucky in life if we had the chance to experience an unexpected adventure, and then make our way back safely to a place of comfort. Sometimes the only way we can appreciate our home and the simple happiness it has to offer is to be away from it for a while.

~ Noble Smith

Make your sacred-life an eventful journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every travel is sacred.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you walk on sacred-path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Travel steadily in your define path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You never know travel path of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The sacred travel path is one’s life journey.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

… everything was fresh, green and particularly beautiful. Afternoon light, filtering between remnants of monsoon clouds, picked out gullies and spot-lit patches of forest and scrub on the convoluted ridges of the rim of the Kathmandu Valley. Or, after a rainstorm, wisps of clouds clung to the trees as if scared to let go. Behind, himals peeked out shyly between the clouds.

~ Jane Wilson-Howarth

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

~ Ed Viesturs

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

~ J.k. Rowling