45 Living Abroad Quotes: Beautiful and inspirational

I have summed up 45 travel abroad quotes that are very inspirational if you are planning to travel.

 

Are you having travel anxieties or doubts if your want to travel or move abroad? Then these living abroad and travel quotes will inspire you to go on and have a trip you once dreamed of.

 

These travel quotes were said by known people from different walks of life like entrepreneurs, celebrities, politicians, and many more.

Get inspired by these travel quotes.

 

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Inspirational Travel quotes

1. Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.- Jodi Picoult

2. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

3. It’s impossible said pride. It’s risky said experience. It’s pointless said reason. Give it a try whispered the heart. – Unknown

4. Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again. – Anthony Doerr

5. Stuff your eyes with wonder. Live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world! It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.— Ray Bradbury

 

6. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. – Mark Twain

 

7. It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home. – Aaron Lauritsen

 

8. Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to. – Thornton Wilder

 

9. Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. – Wendell Berr

 

10. When you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can do about it.- Bill Bryson

 

11. It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same and feels the same. Even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

12. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin

 

13. And suddenly you just know… it’s time to start something new and trust in the magic of new beginnings. – Meister Ekhart

 

14. Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially. – Tom Freston

 

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Christopher McCandless

15. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Christopher McCandless

 

16. Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.-  David Sedaris

 

17. Giving up on the drive to succeed is a good part of what being an expat is all about. If you travel all the way to the Caribbean Sea, you probably have already decided to trade the dog-eat-dog competition of modern living for a hammock on the sand. – Anthony Lee Head

 

18. If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home. – James A. Michener

 

19. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. – Paul Theroux

 

20. Never too old. Never too bad. Never too late. Never too sick to start from scratch once again…- Bikram Choudhury

 

21. Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. – Hannah Arendt

 

22. The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.- Italo Calvin

 

23. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. – Steve Jobs

 

24. You will never be completely at home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That’s the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney

 

25. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, and you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. – Bill Bryson

 

26.  Our homes are not defined by geography or one particular location, but by memories, events, people, and places that span the globe. – Marilyn Gardner

 

27. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.- Terry Pratchet

 

28. It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course, it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for someplace that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere. – Danzy Senna

 

29. It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.- Sarah Turnbull

 

30. If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, and move. – Anthony Bourdain

 

31. Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.- Tom Freston

 

32. 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

 

33. So, here you are. Too foreign for home, too foreign for here. Never enough for both. – Ijeoma Umebinyuo

 

34. Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don’t talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. – Frances Mayes

35. The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped. – Adam Gopnik

 

36. The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.- Zach Braff

37. The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home – and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. – Rolf Potts

 

38. You know what else is nice about being a foreigner? Whatever you do takes place in a capsule that need not be discovered and opened by someone back home. Nothing really counts–it was the life that falls in the forest.- Patricia Marx

 

39. What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? It’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. – Jack Kerouac

 

40. I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get underway, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every state I visited. Nearly every American hunger to move. – John Steinbeck

Everyone smiles in the same language. – George Carlin

41. Everyone smiles in the same language. – George Carlin

 

42. Travel brings power and love back to your life.— Rumi

 

43. All great changes are preceded by chaos.– Deepak Chopra

 

44. Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman

 

45.A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.— Gandhi

 

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