30 Wanderlust-Inducing Travel Picture Quotes to Inspire You to Just Go

Every once in a while, we need a sweet reminder to spark our wanderlust. And there’s nothing as inspiring as and more powerful than reading the perfect quote that seems to leap out of a page, as if it had been written especially for you, beckoning you to see the world. 

Often, these quotes resonate with us because they stoke our inner longing to travel or they bring back fond memories. Whatever it is, certainly it is one of life's simple joys to find the right words that our wandering hearts and restless souls exactly feel about life, adventures, travel, and experiencing the world. 

So here you go: Coupled with some of my favorite photos from my travels, here are 30 wanderlust-inducing travel quotes to inspire you, once and for all, to just go.

"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 (Nacpan-Calitang Twin Beach El Nido, Philippines | 2014)

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." - Jawaharial Nehru (Xinshe, Taiwan | 2013)

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” -Anonymous (Sagada, Philippines | 2012)

 “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”

-Roman Payne (La Union, Philippines | 2015)

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." -Leonardo da Vinci (Batanes, Philippines | 2014)

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.” -Anthony Bourdain (Baguio City, Philippines | 2013)

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float; to gain all while you give; to roam the roads of lands remote; to travel is to live.” -Hans Christian Andersen (Matinloc Shrine, El Nido, Philippines | 2015)

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. 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 (Benguet, Philippines | 2012)

“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.” -Chuck Palahniuk (Survivors' Island, El Nido, Philippines | 2014)

"The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the memories we've made along the way." -Anonymous (Clark International Airport, Philippines | 2014)

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius (Senado Square, Macau | 2014)

“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.” -Helen Keller (Shimizu Island, El Nido, Philippines | 2014)

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” -Ibn Battuta (Everland Theme Park, South Korea | 2014)

 “One fine day, it will be your turn. You will leave homes, cities, and countries to pursue grander ambitions. You will leave friends, lovers, and possibilities for the chance to roam the world and make deeper connections. You will defy your fear of change, hold your head high, and do what you once thought was unthinkable: walk away. And it will be scary. At first. But what I hope you’ll find in the end is that in leaving, you don’t just find love, adventure, or freedom. More than anything, you find you.” – Isa Garcia via InfiniteSatori.Org (La Union, Philippines | 2015)

 “I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.” -J.A. Redmerski (Middle of the Sea, El Nido, Philippines | 2014)

 "There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars." -Jack Kerouac (Taichung, Taiwan | 2014) 

 "There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them." -Jo Walton (Bohol, Philippines | 2010)

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” -John Steinbeck (Gyeongbokgung Palace, South Korea | 2014)

“A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.” -Lao Tzu (Wat Arun, Bangkok, Thailand | 2013)

"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures." -Lewis Caroll (Helicopter Island, El Nido, Philippines | 2012)

 "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." -Mary Anne Radmacher (Zambales, Philippines | 2008)

“Be Brave. Take Risks. Nothing Can Substitute Experiences." -Paulo Coelho (Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, Philippines | 2013)

“Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” -Pico Iyer (Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan | 2015)

 "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nami Island, South Korea | 2014)

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson (Nami Island, South Korea | 2014)

 "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 (Batanes, Philippines | 2014)

“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 (Puerto Galera, Philippines | 2015)

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." -Oprah Winfrey (Aboard Cebu Pacific Airlines | 2014)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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 (La Union, Philippines | 2015)

"Travel is rebellion in its purest form. We follow our heart. We free ourselves of labels. We lose control willingly. We trade a role for reality. We love the unfamiliar. We trust strangers. We own only what we can carry. We search for better questions, not answers. We truly graduate. We, sometimes, choose never to come back." -TripRebel Manifesto (El Nido, Philippines | 2014)

And now, over to you! What did you like best among the featured travel picture quotes in this post? What's your favorite travel quote? :)