Life happens to everyone, but the world owes you nothing. Fight for what you want and pay for it with your own sweat and tears. It becomes so much more rewarding that way too.
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From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World chronicles the life of a girl who grew up with a colorful imagination but not nearly enough funds to support it. The book is broken up into four parts: The Dream, The Journey, The Adventure, an
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What floats your boat doesn't have to sail someone else's ship. Learn to live with the idea that your life shouldn't warrant other people's approval. There are people out there that want to see you drown, so don't confuse an extra paddle for an anchor.
If you want something bad enough, no dollar amount will come in the way of that. Don’t let the size of your dreams intimidate you.
Never apologize for your confidence, especially if it’s something that’s been recently acquired. In a generation where depression, suicide, and self-esteem issues are running rampant, how dare someone try to knock you for being 100% happy in your skin.
Do what you love despite what your wallet might suggest. Money is an illusion. It comes and goes. There's always money to be made and money to be paid. Don't waste your life stressing over either.
Whatever happens in certain phases of life, it’ll either be a good time or a good story. Embrace them both.
Do something that pays the bills, and something that makes you happy. Then repeat this cycle until the latter does both.
People on the outside looking in often fall in love with the idea of success, but never want to hold hands with the struggle.
If my passport cost as much as a degree, it would still be the best investment I ever made. The most important things to know about life are learned outside of the classroom. Love, compassion, and open-mindedness are curriculums in the school of travel, and as far as I’m concerned, that kind of educ…
My passport has single-handedly changed my life for the better, and if you told me to give up my passport or my degree, I’d practically thrust my degree into your arms [along with a slew of debt] and bid thee farewell as I took off on another adventure.
When you’re told to go into a career for the money, you lose sight of your purpose along the way. I truly believe the love of money is the root of all evil, and if you spend your life chasing it, then you’ll never have enough.
I travel because I want to breathe the air of unknown territories, dance with the dancers in remote locations, and dine with the locals of unfamiliar backgrounds.
Traveling is living in its purest form and nothing in life is a better teacher than the lessons you learn and experience through traveling.
No matter what language you speak or what part of the world you’re from, there’s a universal language of laughter, smiles, and love.
Traveling is a constant dialogue between yourself and your soul, growing, learning, and challenging anything and everything you’ve ever thought about life.
Being in a foreign land and having this beautiful dialogue with beautiful people about the most intimate aspects of life, is what inspires me to continue spreading my wings to keep exploring this world.
Bless the hearts of the men who try to keep up with the fast-paced, ever-changing souls of us female wanderlusters. The quick wit, impulsive nature and always-evolving idea of what our lives should look like make us some of the most complex creatures to ruin, and yet grace the dating scene.
There’s nothing more detrimental to our success than ourselves. We get in the way of our potential and growth by being complacent and settling for things that don’t make us happy.
While we’re so quick to find our happy ending, we forget to enjoy the plot in between, and remember that the real magic is in the story.
If you live a life so boldly and unapologetically, then life has no choice but to follow suit and command the reciprocation of luck to work in your favor.