Below are 14 of my favourite travel quotes to inspire you to discover more…

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“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you’ve traveled.” – Mohammed

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.”– Matthew Karsten

“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.”– Lawrence Block

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“I soon realised that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

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… And if these words don’t inspire you, hopefully the pics below from my recent trip to the Greek Island do.

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