10 quotes on travelling that will help you find yourself

It is believed that travelling, just like reading, exposes us to unchartered territories. We visit new places, interact with different kinds of people, experience various cultures, traditions and food-- all of which helps in expanding our world view. With the Coronavirus pandemic pushing us to stay safe indoors and curbing our travel plans, the only way most of us can travel these days is through our mind's eyes. These unprecedented times have been especially difficult for extroverts and travellers. Nevertheless, this should not stop us from growing and improving as human beings. To help you keep your love for travelling and the outdoors alive, here are some quotes by writers who will inspire you not only to travel far and wide but inwards too. Read on!

“All that is gold does not glitter,

Not all those who wander are lost.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

― St. Augustine

“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 Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

― Anita Desai

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

― Marcel Proust

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”

― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."

- Pico Iyer