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Quotes About Wanderlust

Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.
~ Ibn Battuta
But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
~ Dogen
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
~ Bash? Matsuo
One of the joys of travel is visiting new towns and meeting new people.
~ Genghis Khan
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
~ Harun Yahya
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.
~ Voltaire
On the road again, goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again, and I can't wait to get on the road again.
~ Willie Nelson
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Take the back roads instead of the highways.
~ Minnie Pearl
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
~ Lin Yutang
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life
~ Michael Palin
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
~ Jack Kerouac
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
~ Judith Thurman
Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
~ Richard Francis Burton
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
~ Simon Raven
He who strays discovers new paths.
~ Nils Kjaer
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.
~ ryu murakami