“What’s hovering between charming sleepiness and overdeveloped soullessness? What must we see before it changes forever? What will transform us?”— Ann Abel, forbes.com
“I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm not big into exercising out in nature unless the path is both quick and easy.”— Emily Schuman, cupcakesandcashmere.com
“I knew I needed to make changes, and fast. I became absolutely fascinated by travel photography, luxury hotel websites, and would spend my days visualizing jet-setting from one fabulous destination to the next.”— Jordyn Kraemer, elitedaily.com
“I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.”— Pat Conroy, amazon.com
“The desire to learn and explore is something innate and important, and I think that many of us (particularly in the US) neglect those urges. I think that's part of why travel is so dangerously addictive: once you uncover that drive to explore and discover, it's pretty hard to keep denying it.”— Stephanie Yoder, amazon.com
“I've been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I've loved and the ideas I've embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand it.”— Eve Babitz, amazon.com
“Traveling messes you up, but in all the good ways. It leaves you always craving more, and addiction that can never quite be met. Every place, every trip, every person is a new adventure; pulling you deeper into the love of wanderlust. Your heart begins to hurt when you’re standing still, and your mi…”— Unknown, travelsbyandee.blogspot.com
“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don’t know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, to be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.”— Beau Taplin, instagram.com
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage. I spent a large part of my youth traveling the world as a hippie. And what money did I have then? None. I barely had enough to pay for my fare. But I still consider those to have been the best years of my youth. The great lessons I learned has been p…”— Paulo Coelho, instagram.com
“Personally, I like going places where I don't speak the language, don't know anybody, don't know my way around and don't have any delusions that I'm in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.”— Michael Mewshaw, vagablogging.net
“you enter the world’s quietest room and realize that you have been singing for years in a soft, unusual language you discover mouths all over yourself they want things now.”— Kimmy Walters, products.bottlecap.press
“I want to be lost in beauty of the earth and be reminded everyday how amazing it is. I want to lose part of ourselves in every place we fall in love with. Life should be spent adventuring and all I want is to spend a lifetime adventuring with someone by my side. Let’s escape and go get lost together…”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I think the wildest, freest part of me will always want to pack up my bags, leave in the middle of the night and run away to wherever it is you’re going next.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to run my hands through your brown hair and kiss your dimple on your cheek. I want to chase you until we are just two bodies, falling on one another like a dance, and laughing too hard to stand back up again. I want to star gaze with you and listen to you tell me all about the galaxies and th…”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Leave it all behind with me. We’ll run from our failures and misgivings, drench ourselves in sweet possibilities, dip our toes into the oceans of regret and dry our souls out in the sunlight of forgiveness.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Run away with me. Pack your bags and leave your reservations behind. Unpack your hopes and your fears and every dream that you let drop by the wayside over the years. Pick up your wildest childhood fantasies and let’s steal away in the night. We’ll leave this wasteland, ditch this city, let the ligh…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let’s leave. Let’s run away from here, from all of the things that keep us from just being together. From losing time to the feel of our skin pressed together and learning every curve to each other’s lips. Our time on this earth is too short and our love too much for this lifetime. Let’s go, my love…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to stain every city with our love; I want to steal countries from your heart so they can only ever belong to us. I want to remember how alive and in love and insanely happy we were. I want to remember how my heart raced like the wind, how every morning I turned to look at you when waking in a…”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com
“I want to chase you through unknown cities and fall asleep in the back of a pick-up truck, our bodies tangled together, your hand lost in my hair, and nothing but the stars to keep us company.”— Rose Goodman, thoughtcatalog.com