Phrases of Inspiration
Quotes to inspire you to Trot the Globe!
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
–St. Augustine
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
– Henry Ford
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
– Rosa Parks
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection köpa deltasone.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray Love
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Still, despite all this, traveling is the great true love of my life. I have always felt, ever since I was sixteen years old and first went to Russia with my saved-up babysitting money, that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love for travel, as I have not always been loyal and constant in my other loves. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless, newborn baby–I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me. It can barf all over me if it wants to–I just don’t care.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
–Albert Einstein
“Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation.”
–The Secret
“What we think about and THANK about is what we bring about.”
–The Secret
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move”.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” –
-Maya Angelou
“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu
“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.”
– James Baldwin
“People don’t take trips . . . trips take people.”
– John Steinbeck
“Once you find yourself in another civilization, you’re forced to examine your own.”
-James Baldwin
“Traveling is the great true love of my life… I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.”
-Elizabeth Gilbert