Wellicht heb je je rugzak bereids gekocht, je visum reeds aangevraagd en je (reis) verzekering al afgesloten. Top! Maar heb je jezelf ook al de belangrijkste vraag van allemaal gesteld? Waarom ga je op reis? Wat wil je bereiken? Doe je het puur voor je plezier of wil je er meer uithalen? Weet je dat nog niet? Wellicht kun je je laten inspireren door mijn favoriete (reis)citaten. Hopelijk geeft het je de inspiratie waar je naar zocht.
Veertig favorieten
40. Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return – Island Company
39. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone – Neale Donald Walsch
38. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions – Oliver Wendell Holmes
37. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears – Glenn Clark
36. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children – Robert Benchley
35. If you can’t stop thinking about it don’t stop working for it – Michael Jordan
34. In life you need either inspiration or desperation –Tony Robbins
33. Travel does not exist without home. If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world – Josh Gates
32. And at the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling – Shanti
31. I don’t know the question, but travel is definitely the answer – Unknown
30. Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveler. The best they offer are tantalizing snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own – the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home – Graeme Sparkes
29. You know all those things you always wanted to do? You should go do them – E.J. Lamprey
28. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not – R.W. Emerson
27. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign – Robert Louis Stevenson
26. The cost of not following your heart is spending your entire life wishing you had – J. Paulsen
25. 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
24. Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul – Jaime Lyn
23. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home – Dagobert D. Runes
22. Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire – Jennifer Lee
21. Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive – Mercedes Lackey
20. If you’re not willing to risk the unusual you’ll have to settle for ordinary – Jim Rohn
19. The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see – C.K. Chesterton
18. Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you – David McCullough Jr.
17. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer – Unknown
16. A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu
15. When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back – Rebecca Solnit
14. You think you are making the trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you – Nicolas Bouvier
13. Any country where I’m not bored, is a country that teaches me nothing – Albert Camus
12. I’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff – Unknown
11. To travel is to live – Hans Christian Andersen
10. Not all those who wander are lost – J.R.R. Tolkien
09. You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next – Kirsten Hubbard
08. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow – Lin Yutang
07. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way – Carl Sandburg
06. Those who follow the crowd, usually get lost in it – Rick Warren
05. When one realizes that his life is worthless, he either commits suicide or travels – Edward Dahlberg
04. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us – Unknown
03. Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives and the serious part of frivolous ones – Sophie Swetchine
02. If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it’s lethal – Paulo Coelho
01. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety – Abraham Maslow