15 Quotes To Inspire Wanderlust

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I have this bad habit of doing things that are injurious to my emotional health, which admittedly, is in a rather precarious state right now. I suffer from a moderate case of wanderlust (aka the Anywhere-But-Here Disorder or Get-Me-Out-Of-Here syndrome). The symptoms come and go – they’re usually at their most lethal right after a trip and especially merciless during the first day back at work post-trip. Right now, mine have gone into a somewhat latent state. But instead of being quietly relieved and not doing anything to stir them back to life (like any normal person), I’m feverishly trawling travel websites and checking flight prices. This can’t be good for my health. But you know what may be? Sharing some travel quotes I stole from other websites. They’re really inspiring and while they’re probably not the best remedy for my condition, they do a pretty decent job cushioning my fall as I set off on yet another one of my wishful flights of fancy.

1. “Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
2. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
3. “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
4. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – JRR Tolkien
5. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
6. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
7. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
8. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
9. “The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G. K. Chesterton
10. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
11. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
12. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
13. “An involuntary return to the point of departure is the most disturbing of all journeys.” – Iain Sinclair
14. “One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.” – Charles Dickens
15. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

I have this bad habit of doing things that are injurious to my emotional health, which admittedly, is in a rather precarious state right now. I suffer from a moderate case of wanderlust (aka the Anywhere-But-Here Disorder or Get-Me-Out-Of-Here syndrome). The symptoms come and go – they’re usually at their most lethal right after a trip and especially merciless during the first day back at work post-trip. Right now, mine have gone into a somewhat latent state. But instead of being quietly relieved and not doing anything to stir them back to life (like any normal person), I’m feverishly trawling travel websites and checking flight prices. This can’t be good for my health. But you know what may be? Sharing some travel quotes I stole from other websites. They’re really inspiring and while they’re probably not the best remedy for my condition, they do a pretty decent job cushioning my fall as I set off on yet another one of my wishful flights of fancy.

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