5 Travel Quotes That Can Improve Your Life(Without Having to Travel)

From finding daily inspiration to making more thoughtful considerations of home

Photo by Ben Mack from Pexels

Travel quotes are pervasive on the web. They dominate social media and are often used to spur daily inspiration. There is a good chance you have come across many of the most commonly referred to travel quotes at some stage. I know I have.

These quotes often offer a window into the romantic, dreamy world of travel. Some are so powerful that they can guide our future directions.

Here are a few of my personal favorites:

• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ― Paul Theroux
• “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” ― Mark Twain
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ― Lao Tzu

I could go on for a while.

As I scanned through an anthology of travel quotes the other day in search of inspiration, it dawned on me that for many of them, the…