22. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel — not a destination.” — Roy M. Goodman
I think this is one of my favorite quotes about travel. Having been to 30 or so countries, and plenty of destinations among them, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that happiness does not come from beautiful destinations any more than the concept that money can buy happiness…
It’s easy to assume that if money can’t buy happiness, surely experiences can, but you can be in the most beautiful place on earth having some crazy experience, and not be happy. We tend to always be in search of the next big thing — the most beautiful beach or bigger mountain — without realizing that it is the journey there that matters, not the destination.
Happiness is hard to define of course, but I think happiness lies in your outlook and present state of mind. To be happy is to be in the present moment, no matter what you own or where you are.
23. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” — Elizabeth Benedict
24. “We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” — John Hope Franklin
25. “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” — Sorrab Singha
27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” — Unknown
Both of these travel quotes (#26 and #27) emcapsulate that sometimes we travel to learn more about ourselves. A large aspect about traveling is of course visiting places, but sometimes you end up visiting parts of yourself too.
28. “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” — Hans Christian Andersen
29. “Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you — or unmaking you.” — Nicolas Bouvier
30. It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” — Ursula K. Le Guin
Why don’t you travel with us and our Halong bay tour from Hanoi?
