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Zuko fluff coming your way! I hope this is new and creative! :)

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Secret Tunnel (Zuko x Reader)

Warnings: None

Genre: Fluff

Part: 1/1

Summary: Zuko and you get lost traveling through the Earth Kingdom and stumble upon the Secret Tunnel

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“Zuko, I don’t think this is a good idea,” you said, your nerves getting the better of you as you stood at the entrance to the mountain.

“This is the fastest way! I’m not going all the way around when there’s a path right here!” he argued, his forehead wrinkled and eyebrows knit.

“Do you even know where you’re going?” you asked him indignatly, your arms crossed as you glared up at him.

He glared back at you, his eyes melting into your own as he stayed silent, the tension thick between the two of you. You guys had been traveling aimlessly and it was his reckless wandering that had gotten you lost in the first place.

“Do you have a better idea?” he snapped.

“Not going through the dangerous tunnel!” you retorted, your fists clenching and your face growing red from anger.

Zuko rolled his eyes at you and huffed before pouting. He crossed his arms over his chest and turned to look away from you. You scoffed at this; his ability to act like a toddler never failed to surprise you.

“I think you’re just scared.”

“What?”

“You heard me!”

“Why you-“

The sound of scuffling caught your attention and you stopped talking to look into the forest. You gasped, recognizing the signature red suits from miles away. Without another thought, you grabbed Zuko’s arm and booked it towards the opening.

You began wondering why Fire Nation soldiers were this far into the Earth Kingdom. Surely they wouldn’t risk being this close to Omashu? Then again, you really had no idea. It seemed that day after day the Fire Nation became more rash and entitled.

You heard Zuko begin to protest but shushed him quickly, throwing both of you into the dark shadows of the tunnel. You peered out and saw three Fire Nation soldiers looking around for travelers. You let out the breath you had been holding and relaxed, leaning against the cave walls as you calmed your heartbeat.

“Great. Now thanks to your yelling we have soldiers looking for us,” Zuko grumbled as he tugged his arm out of your grip.

“My yelling?” you asked in disbelief.

You two began to bicker when suddenly the ground began to rumble. Out of instinct, you grabbed right back onto Zuko’s arm to steady yourself. This time he didn’t seem to mind, instead pulling you closer as the two of you tried desperately to figure out what was going on.

Just as you were about to run back out of the tunnel’s entrance, the rocks above it came crashing down, sealing both of you inside. Your stomach dropped immediately. Zuko lit a small fire in his palm to light the place up.

“Oh no. We’re gonna die in here!” you exclaimed, still not letting go of Zuko’s arm.

“Who’s fault is that? I believe it was you who dragged us in here,” Zuko said dryly.

You ripped your arm from his and turned to glare at him.

“YOU WERE THE ONE WHO WANTED TO GO THIS WAY FIRST!”

This was going to be a long day. The two of you walked around in the tunnel for what felt like hours, and probably was. Your legs began to ache and Zuko’s willful determination was beginning to turn into impatient anger.

Eventually, you began to realize that you were going in circles. You kept seeing the same rock structures and the same cracks running up the walls. You groaned, deciding to take a break and sit down.

“We’re never going to get out of here, are we?” you asked numbly, all hope of getting out having disappeared a long time ago.

“We have to. I still have a destiny to fulfill,” Zuko said back.

You rolled your eyes. Zuko and his stupid destiny. Even after failing so many times and becoming a traitor to his own nation, he was still blindly following a path that his father set for him. When would he stop to realize that the people who actually cared about him were right in front of him?

You and Uncle Iroh had been by his side since the first day of his banishment and yet even after three years he couldn’t see it. He was too focused on restoring something that, in your eyes, he had never lost. Honor isn’t something that can be taken, it’s something that you loose on your own.

You sighed, getting back up to your feet and prepared yourself mentally for another 3 hours of mindless walking. Zuko seemed lost in his own thoughts as well, but snapped out of it when he felt me staring. He cocked his eyebrow at me and I waved him off.

“Let’s keep walking,” I sighed.

“Let’s go right this time,” Zuko suggested.

The two of you walked side by side once more as you tried once again to find your way out. You could feel the warmth from the fire lapping at your skin as the time passed. You could tell it was beginning to get late and you would bet that the sun was beginning to dip below the horizon outside.

You shoved those thoughts away when you realized that this was a part of the tunnel you hadn’t been to yet. There was a huge circle opening in the wall that looked like it lead into a ginormous room. Zuko also noticed it and the both of you walked over to the opening to peer inside.

“What is this place?” you asked curiously, taking in all the details you could.

“I don’t know, but it can’t hurt to look,” he said, taking a few steps into the room.

You were more hesitant to follow, afraid that the door would close and you two would we sealed away forever, but eventually you followed after him. Your eyes roamed the area and began taking in all the details. What caught your eye the most was the huge circle in the middle of the room.

“It’s a tomb,” Zuko said in surprise.

You took a closer look and realized that Zuko was right. You also saw little panels that covered the walls of the tomb. Taking a closer look, it seemed like they were telling a story.

“I think these pictures tell a story,” you said, waving Zuko over to take a look.

Begrudgingly, he moved closer and looked at the pictures. You began to read them out loud for both of you, walking slowly along around the tomb to continue reading. Zuko followed after you, keeping a few inches apart.

“Isn’t there a song about this?” you asked, taking a pause from reading.

“Do I look like I would be able to answer that?” Zuko asked in exasperation and annoyance.

You rolled your eyes and continued reading. The story was beautiful but incredibly sad as well. The very first earthbenders, using their powers for love. When you finished reading, you turned around to face the two statues of Oma and Shu with a small smile. You read the plaque that was placed between them quietly.

“Love is brightest in the dark,” you said, voice barely above a whisper.

“This seems like a load of crap to me,” Zuko huffed, effectively ruining your happy moment.

“What would you even know about love? All you love is your stupid honor and capturing a 12 year old boy,” you spat angrily, turning away from him and walking back up the stairs to the enteryway.

Zuko was shouting behind you, but you paid little attention to him. All you could feel was the cracking of your heart as you realized you were in love with a lost cause; someone who would never love you back.

You continued stomping through the tunnel with Zuko angrily running after you. You finally stopped walking and turned to face him when you realized that you wouldn’t be able to get out of there alone.

“What is your problem?” Zuko yelled heatedly as he approached you.

You could see the orange glow from the fire in his palm flickering across his face, highlighting every wrinkle and twitch of his eye. You normally would have laughed at how stupidly handsome he still looked, but right now when you looked at him all you felt was anger.

“Why do you have to be so negative all the time!?” you accused him, shoving your finger into his chest.

Your outburst caught him by surprise and he stumbled back slightly before catching himself. He glared at you as the fire in his hand grew slightly.

“What do I have to be happy about?! I’m a banished, dishonored prince who’s been sent on what everybody thought was a wild goose chase for three years!” he yelled, his anger finally tipping over the brink as he added, “Besides, why are you so happy all the time? I wish you weren’t so happy all the time.”

His words struck you like a knife and before you could even register what was happening, you were shouting back at him.

“You want me to be more negative? Fine! I hate my life and more importantly I hate you! I hate the way you walk all over your Uncle and I. I hate the way you’re so devoted to someone who doesn’t care about you. I hate the way your eyes glaze over with rage when someone even so much as mentions the Avatar. I hate everything! I hate it!” you screamed at the top of your lungs, hot angry tears streaming down your face as you choked on your words, “I hate...I hate...”

You let your legs give out as you crumbled to the floor on your knees. You cried like you hadn’t cried in years, finally letting go of all your pent up emotions. You couldn’t even bring yourself to look at Zuko as you finally managed to force out your last sentence.

“But most of all, I hate myself. I hate myself for allowing myself to love someone who couldn’t care less about me.”

You used your left hand to steady yourself on the ground and your right hand covered your mouth to muffle your sobs. You vaguely heard Zuko shuffling in front of you and barely registered when he kneeled down across from you.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t...I shouldn’t have yelled at you,” you heard him say.

You wiped away your tears and looked up at him. You met his eyes and saw something in them that you hadn’t seen in a long time. It was almost unrecognizable to you, seeming so out of character for him.

“I really care about you. I know that...well, that I should have done more to show you, but it’s true. You’re so important to me and you do make me happy. I just got so wrapped up in capturing the Avatar that I began pushing you away,” he said softly, his regret evident in the way he spoke.

“I know. It was selfish and rude and hurtful.”

“I know. I’m so sorry, Y/N. I’m so so sorry.”

“...It’s...I forgive you.”

As your words hung in the air, you couldn’t help but notice how close he was. His knees were brushing yours and your faces were a mere few inches apart. You couldn’t stop your breath from hitching as he took your hand into his. You saw him open his mouth to speak before shutting it once more. Finally after a few more seconds, he tried again.

“Did you mean what you said?” he asked, pausing slightly before clarifying, “That you love me?”

You could hear the hesitation in his voice as he spoke. You couldn’t stop the small pink blush that creeped onto your cheeks. You used your free hand to wipe at some stray tears before meeting his eyes. You took a deep breath before answering.

“Yea. I did.”

Something in Zuko’s eyes changed in that moment. It was quick and almost unnoticeable, but it was there. You held your breath and shut your eyes as you waited for him to reject you, but it never came. Instead you felt a hand cup your cheek and then a brush of lips.

It was soft, almost timid at first, but when you didn’t shove him away, it became more present. His lips were warm and slightly chapped from going without water all day, but you couldn’t bring yourself to care. You kissed back just as passionately and found yourself grabbing onto his neck, gripping onto him like he might disappear when you opened your eyes.

“I love you,” he whispered against your lips.

The sound of it sent a shiver down your spine. It was everything you had been waiting to hear and more. When the two of you finally broke apart, your foreheads were still pressed together.

Zuko’s thumb was rubbing soft circles into your hand and his other hand was still holding onto your cheek. You sighed happily before realizing that there was still light in the tunnel. Both of Zuko’s hand’s were occupied, which meant that he couldn’t have been producing it.

You cracked your eyes open and gasped in awe. All along the tunnel’s ceiling was these beautiful green and blue crystals. They were glowing brightly and were casting a soft glow around the two of you.

“Zuko, look,” you said breathlessly, your eyes never once leaving the ceiling.

“Love is brightest in the dark,” Zuko whispered.

The two of you eventually did manage to find your way out of the cave. Holding hands, you simply followed the trail of crystals until you made your way out. The stars were shining bright and the moon was high in the sky but neither of you could care.

You were both alive and safe and happy. You two had finally even figured out your feelings for eachother.

Perhaps running into the tunnel wasn’t so bad after all, you decided. You two had trusted in love and were better for it.

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75 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust (Ultimate List)

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75 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust (Ultimate List)

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time Inspirational Travel Quotes

Are these the best travel quotes of all time? Feed your wanderlust with these inspirational travel quotes from famous travelers along with beautiful images you can share. Let the adventure begin!

I’m slightly embarrassed be asserted that I love inspirational travelling quotes.

These memorable travelling quotes accompanied by stunning photography have the ability to capture little moments of lucidity that highlight truths about traveling, escapade, and life.

Great traveling quotes like these remind me that feelings I’ve felt while traveling the world for the past nine years have been experienced by many others.

We’re all beautifully connected with each other by a love for traveling!

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Here are my favorite travelling quotes of all time, paired with some photos from my personal adventures around the world. I often share them on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.

You have permission to share these quote images on your own accounts too, all I ask in exchange is to please credit me when possible. Thanks!

I hope they inspire you to pack up everything and head out into the unknown, to explore the farthest reaches of our planet( and your soul) — to insure the world for what it really is.

Browse these fun quotes when you need wanderlust motivating — to attain travel national priorities in your life!

Best Travel Quotes With Images

Traveling is one of the best ways to open your mind and heart to the world. As a outcome, I’ve experienced the whole range of emotions during my travels.

Although this has sometimes meant having my lifestyle and point of view challenged, I wouldn’t give up a single second of it because it helped shape me into the person I am today. Travel can change your perspective.

Like a less-intense version of an astronaut’s overview impact.

Many of these traveling quotes have inspired me to keep exploring. If you’re looking for inspiration to gasoline your wanderlust, you’re certain to find the perfect cite below!

Inspiring Travel Quotes

Adventure is always worth it!

Travel isn’t always fairly …

1:” Adventure is worthwhile .”- Aesop

It doesn’t get more simplistic than Aesop’s take on traveling, the ancient Greek fabulist and storyteller. But that’s exactly why this classic traveling quote continues to inspire me. Escapade can remind you about what’s important in life.

2: “Travel isn’t always fairly. It isn’t always comfy. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”- Anthony Bourdain

The late, great Anthony Bourdain truly made the fingernail on the head here. Many think of traveling as a way to relax, and it absolutely are likely to be. However, I’ve always found that traveling helps you learn about the good and bad parts of the world.

3:” Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller .”- Ibn Battuta

I’ve seen awe-inspiring things that I supposed I’d never be able to explain to another person. Somehow, these experiences have turned me into a much better storyteller.

4:” We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other spirits .”- Anais Nin

Anais Nin’s terms about our constant sought for things that will build us feel whole sums up the desire to keep learning through experiences.

A journey is best measured in friends … 5:” A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles .”- Tim Cahill

I couldn’t agree more! I’ve built many friends around the world, and it’s the time I’ve spent with them that has built my travels so fulfilling. People are always more memorable than checking off a bucket list.

6:” The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a deviation into unknown lands .”- Sir Richard Burton

Sir Richard Burton eloquently captured the spirit of wandering off into the unknown. The moment of anticipation is oftens sweeter than the final result. Before I arrive in each new place, I often daydream about what is soon to come.

7: “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”- Chuck Thompson

Have you ever looking back on your hometown through the eyes of a tourist? I understand how easy it is to get jaded, but the truth is that every single place in the world has something of interest to reveal you.

8:” I am not the same, having insured the moon glisten on the other side of the world .”- Mary Anne Radmacher

I often gaze at the stars when I’m visiting a new destination. It’s amazing considering ways they’re the same, yet so very different, from my home. Considering these changes helps you begin to understand your place in the universe.

9:” Travel induces one modest. You consider what a tiny place you occupy in the world .”- Gustave Flaubert

Flaubert continued Radmacher’s wise observation in this insightful quote. I definitely used to think that my life, and my country, played a bigger role in the world until I strapped on my knapsack and began traveling.

Famous Travel Quotes We travel so life does not escape us. 10:” We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us .”- Anonymous

I feel a heavy weight on my heart when I don’t travel for an extended amount of time. As soon as I set off for someplace new, the burden of stagnation falls away and I feel renewed. Traveling always restores my zest for life.

11: “The man who runs alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”- Henry David Thoreau

I’ve heeded Henry David Thoreau’s advice on many occasions. In fact, of all the quotes about traveling I’ve collected here, this one has been the most influential. We can make excuses for not “ve got something”, and in many cases, we blame others.

12:” To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world .”- Freya Stark

A change of opinion always helps give me a new perspective on life. Traveling allows waking up to a different view on a regular basis. I know that I can always clear my intellect by visiting new places. The perfect traveling quote.

13:” The life you have led doesn’t is essential to the only life you have.”- Anna Quindlen

Anna Quindlen’s words have made a big difference in my life. It’s so easy to get stuck believing that what we’re doing right now is all we’ll ever do. It’s also style too easy to get sucked into identifying too strongly with the errors of our past.

14:” Broad, wholesome, charitable positions of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime .”- Mark Twain

I wish the entire world could understand Mark Twain’s insight into traveling. The only route to genuinely learn about the world and other people is by getting out there. We all have preconceived notions, but traveling has shown me that they’re usually false.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage … 15:” Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the gallantry to lose sight of the shore .”- Andre Gide

I used to be so afraid to reach beyond my comfort zone. This travel quote about hurling off the so-called safety net of my comfy surroundings let me discover parts of the world I’d long presumed I’d never assure. More importantly, I’ve discovered things about myself that I never would have guessed.

16:” The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, insure them as they are .”- Samuel Johnson

There’s so much wisdom in Samuel Johnson’s quote on traveling. Take a second to visualize a place you’ve never been. If you induce that your next vacation spot, I bet you’ll find out that it’s completely different from your internal image.

17:” The world is a volume, and those who do not travelling read only one page .”- Saint Augustine

We may feel safe in our little bubble, but it’s also boring. That’s the primary reason I started traveling several years ago, and I’ve fallen in love with the thrill of discovery. The world is a beautiful piece of literature that constantly surprises me. It doesn’t get any more real than this short travelling quote.

18:” Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the intellect .”- Seneca

When I travel, I’m able to give my mind something new and exciting to focus on. Studies say that we need to keep learning in order for our minds to thrive. Each time I travel, I learn hundreds of new things that I never would have encountered from the consolation of my living room.

19:” Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do .”- Mark Twain

Mark Twain demonstrated once again to be an extremely wise man with this travel quote about the power of unhappines. I cannot imagine reaching the end of my life with a huge pail listing of things that were never intersected off.

Anonymous Quotes On Traveling Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. 20:” Once a year, run someplace you’ve never been before .”- Anonymous

This simple travel quote says it all. My mind craves new experiences, and I quite simply cannot get them from my hometown anymore. By going somewhere new at the least once a year, I continue to grow in numerous ways.

21:” Travel is the only thing you buy that induces you richer .”- Anonymous

Money constructs traveling a possibility, but it doesn’t enriched you like sharing experiences with new cultures. I’m not sure who coined this inspirational travelling quote, but they reached the nail on the head!

22: “To traveling is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”- Aldous Huxley

In perhaps the timeliest travel quote of all, Huxley reminds us that countries themselves aren’t bad , nor are their residents. Governments are likely to be corrupt, but the spirit of the people always lives on.

23:” Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. Ensure the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream built or pay money in factories .”- Ray Bradbury

Nothing can replace the thrill of traveling for me. I’d rather insure things in the real world than spend my day imagining them. None of the amusement devices that humans have invented can come close to the exhilaration I experience exploring the world.

24: “Traveling tends to exaggerate all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

I’ve been at my best, and at my absolute worst while traveling. Feelings are bigger during these journeys because there’s so much new information to process. Peter’s travel quote uncovers a truth that many travelers can relate to.

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You don’t have to be rich to traveling well. 25:” You don’t have to be rich to travel well .”- Eugene Fodor

Creator of the famous Fodor Guides Eugene Fodor’s quote helps highlight that people of almost any budget can travel. For instance, a few years ago I hitchhiked across the United States for 5 weeks, and it was one of my best traveling experiences.

26: “If you reject the food, dismis the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.”- James Michener

I completely agree with Michener. There’s really no phase in traveling to a new country if you’re only interested in staying inside the walls of a resort. I believe that the point of traveling is to learn about new cultures and customs and truly open our minds.

27:” People don’t take trips, trips take people .”- John Steinbeck

Going on a trip may start with a lot planning, but the truth is that once you arrive somewhere new, the region instantly begins to change you. Traveling can truly be transformative if you allow the trip to take hold of you.

28: “When overseas you learn more about your country, than you do the place you’re visiting.”- Clint Borgen

If you think your country does everything the right way and is idolized by other nations, you’ll definitely have those notions put to the test when you enter any other country. I’ve learned so much about the style my nation is viewed on the international stage. This is the perfect travel quote for Instagram or Pinterest.

29: “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”- Bill Bryson

Have you ever felt the rain on your scalp in multiple countries? I have, and I’m here to tell you that it’s always a thrilling sensation each time it happens somewhere new. By traveling, I’ve learned to appreciate things that I would normally ignore.

Short Travel Quotes Life is either a daring escapade or nothing. 30: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”- Helen Keller

Just like everyone else, I spend some of my days sitting on a couch watching television. Of course, these aren’t the moments that define me , nor are they what I think of when straying through my favorite memories. It’s the adventurous side of life that makes living genuinely worthwhile to me.

31:” Travel is never a matter of fund, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho

Yes, travel does require some fund. However you’ll also need to gather enough fortitude to temporarily cast off everything about your daily life that constructs it so comfy — and boring.

32:” Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip .”- Babs Hoffman

I been applied to obsess over every single little thing that could go wrong during a trip-up. This caused me to overly scheme everything. In some instances, it even convinced me to skip places that were less predictable. Little things can go wrong anywhere, so they’re not worth worrying about.

33:” He who would travel blithely must travel light .”- Antoine de St. Exupery

This became one of my travelling mottoes after an unfortunate experience trying to schlep a massive backpack from the airport to a hotel via public transportation. I know exactly what ol’ Antoine was talking about in this travelling quote!

34: “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of exhilaration and adventure.”- Irving Wallace

If we’re being honest with ourselves, the routines of daily life are monotonous. For me, all it takes is a trip-up to a new city or country to reignite my sense of escapade. Each new discovery is exciting, whether it’s trying a new meal or assuring an ancient castle.

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Not all those who wander are lost … 35:” Not all those who stray are lost .”- J.R.R. Tolkien

Tolkien’s wisdom genuinely shines through in this quote. I have applied it to several of my trip-ups by allowing myself to simply wander through a new land as opposed to plotting everything out first. You can’t understand how freeing this is until “youre trying to” it.

36: “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear stimulates strangers of people who should be friends.”- Shirley MacLaine

This quote is as relevant today as it was when it was first uttered. People have an unfortunate propensity to assert others as their adversary without even getting to know them first. This is an issue that’s propagated by fear of the unknown, and it has led to a lot of lost possibilities throughout history.

37:” I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine .”- Caskie Stinnett

Staying in one place for too long definitely attains my wanderlust start itching for a new escapade. Routine has its place, but too much of it constructs me feel stagnant. I love shaking up my daily life by visiting a new place and immersing myself inside a different culture.

38:” A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions .”- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everything I’ve learned during my travelings has forever expanded and changed my intellect. This traveling quote shows Holmes clearly grew in a similar way by visiting new lands.

39: “Remember that happiness is a style of travelling- not a destination.”- Roy M. Goodman

Many chase the elusive dream of happiness when they should be embracing it inside of each little moment, as Roy alludes to in this inspiring quote. I learned long ago that happiness is found in the details.

More Fun Traveling Quotes Life begins at the end of your convenience zone … 40:” Life begins at the end of your convenience zone .”- Neale Donald Walsch

What is your comfort zone? If I’d never learned to stretching mine, I’d still be sitting on the same lounge after run every single day for the rest of my life. Instead, I challenged myself to tackle new challenges and to consider areas of the world that had intimidated me.

41: “Once in a while it truly makes people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”- Alan Keightley

One of my favorite traveling memories involves sitting on a sidewalk in Nicaragua feeing some chicken& rice. I watched local people stroll by for at least 30 minutes, running about their daily routines. This simple experience still defines Nicaragua for me in a way that visiting a famous tourist attraction never could.

42: “One’s destination is never a place, but a new route of find things.”- Henry Miller

I frequently remind myself of this quote about traveling from Henry Miller. After all, simply checking off travelling locatings means nothing if you don’t allow each trip-up to change you in some way. I love to soak up a new culture and learn more about the locals’ point of view.

43: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”- Susan Sontag

Every place on the planet has great potential to help us learn and grow. That’s the primary reason that there’s nowhere in the world I wouldn’t go if I had safe passage. Right now, there are some cities and countries that aren’t very welcome, but I’d still love to see them someday.

44: “Nobody can detect the world for somebody else. Merely when we detect it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”- Wendell Berry

You cannot maybe hope to learn the true nature of the world by doing nothing more than reading about it. As valuable as reading is, it always takes a backseat to detecting the world for yourself.

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Take only memories, leave only footprints … 45: “Take only memories, leave merely footprints.”- Chief Seattle

This is one of the classic travel quotes that everyone would be well-advised to remember. It transgresses my heart to ensure historic areas filled with trash by careless travelers. We have a responsibility to preserve things as much as possible.

46: “Two roads diverged in a timber and I- I took the one less traveled by.”- Robert Frost

I took Frost’s words at face value in my teen years, but as an adult, I realise there’s much more to his sentiment. Seeing and doing the same things as everyone else can make it difficult to discover your own true identity.

47: “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.”- Charles Dudley Warner

The start of each new trip is an exciting day that’s characterized by a mixture of wonder and dread. You have no idea if the trip will go as schemed, but the unknown is what makes everything so exciting.

48:” Oh the places you’ll run .”- Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss serves as a reminder that we can go anywhere if we stop putting restricted to ourselves. The world is waiting; we just have to have the gallantry to answer the call. Doing this, again and again, has given my life meaning.

49:” It is not down in any map; true places never are .”- Herman Melville

Much like the hidden parts of our spirits, we cannot hope to find something completely original and unspoiled without wandering off the map. I devote myself the freedom of the media to explore anything that catches my attention.

Investment in travelling is an investment in yourself … 50: “Investment in traveling is an investment in yourself.”- Matthew Karsten

Yup. I’m Matthew Karsten, and I wholly only snuck in one of my own traveling quotes. Haha! But I actually entail this too. When I first quit my unfulfilling day task to go backpacking around the world, I didn’t know what I was doing, or where it would all take me. But traveling taught me a lot about life, as well as myself.

51: “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to run. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”- Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson was much more than simply a revered novelist; he was also a travel writer. This particular inspiring quote has always spoken to me. The advise to go somewhere new , no matter where it is, often grabs me.

52: “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

There is nothing more exciting than turning a corner while traveling and detecting something riveting. I remember this happening when I stumbled onto a work of art by street artist Banksy. I don’t even remember my original destination, but I do remember the way I felt looking at Banksy’s art!

53: “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”- Asian Proverb

This is, by far, my favorite Asian proverb, and it’s truly one of the world’s more accurate traveling quotes. I am always in awe when I find myself standing in front of an iconic landmark. Sometimes, they’re less impressive than the narratives I’ve heard, but even that’s a worthwhile experience.

54: “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”- Jack Kerouac

Is there anyone more uniquely qualified to provide insightful quotes about traveling than the author of” On the Road ?” Traveling doesn’t always go as smoothly as you’d expect. Despite this, I’ve discovered many times that the trip itself is every bit as exciting as the destination.

55: “Traveling is a barbarism. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar consolations of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreamings, the sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”- Cesare Pavese

Pavese’s volumes often spoke about loneliness and the inability to is attached to others in a meaningful way. Although his commentary on traveling does contain some truth, I’ve always taken it with a grain of salt. Yes, traveling are likely to be brutal at times, but I believe it’s also one of the most freeing experiences a person can have.

56: “Listen to the mustn’ts, infant. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me … Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”- Shel Silverstein 57: “And then there is the most dangerous danger of all — health risks of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”- Randy Komisar

Many people say inspiring things, but Komisar has lived them as a successful venture capitalist. Don’t fall into the trap of believing there will eventually be a perfect time to follow your dreamings. Through traveling, I’ve learned the only perfect day is now.

58: “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”- Simon Raven

Controversial author Simon Raven said a lot of odd things in his time, but his traveling quotes were typically spot on. After all, the only route to see the entire world is to start taking travel-sized bites out it as early as possible.

59: “The journey not the arrival matters.”- T.S. Eliot

Eliot’s poetry inspired countless writers, but I’ve always been the most taken by this simplistic quote. When I first started traveling, I placed style too much focus on getting to my destination. By learning to let that run, I’ve developed some of my fondest traveling memories.

60: “What you’ve done becomes the magistrate of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s intellects. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”- William Least Heat Moon

Heat-Moon was so dedicated to writing unique travel books that he journeyed across the U.S. in a 1975 Econoline van. This is an adventure I long to replicate. I also love the idea of getting a fresh start in every new township, and that’s exactly what happens if you’re willing to leave your past behind.

61: “To travel is to live.”- Hans Christian Andersen

I grew up reading Anderson’s fairy tales but didn’t know about his travelling writing until subsequently. Now, I know that his many quotes about traveling genuinely captured the essence of why it’s so important to explore new areas.

62: “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of traveling is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”- Bill Bryson

If you want to read humorous but insightful books about traveling, you should definitely check out Bill Bryson. He’s absolutely right about not taking things for awarded when you’re on the road.

63: “Travel makes a wise man better but a buffoon worse.”- Thomas Fuller

Fuller broke new ground with his literary skills, which allowed him to earn a living long before being an author was a viable full-time career for novelists. Some say that everyone is changed for the better by traveling, but Fuller advised us that this wasn’t the case.

64: “I have found out that there ain’t no surer style to find out whether you like people or detest them than to traveling with them.”- Mark Twain

American gem Mark Twain wasn’t one to mince words, but his humor attained even the bitterest truths easier to swallow. Regrettably, I found out the wisdom behind his words the hard way through experience.

65: “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.”- Wallace Stevens

Stevens had a love for the simple things in life, as evidenced by one of his titles:” The Emperor of Ice-Cream .” He’s also right; the entire world contains beauty. That’s why I long to travel to every country on ground.

66: “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and escapade. There is no end to the escapades we are going to be able have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”- Jawaharial Nehru

It’s unsurprising that someone who learned directly from Gandhi would have such an inspiring way of looking at the world. Open your eyes to the beauty of a sunrise or waves rolling into the coast. No matter how many times you’ve seen them, they’re still full of beauty.

67: “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”- Tune Truong

Melody Truong’s terms resonate with me because they’re so full of truth. The feeling of loving unexplored parts of the world is exactly what pushes me to keep traveling.

68: “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”- Susan Heller

Heller’s widely quoted travelling proverb has influenced the way I travel. I used to pack way more than I required, and this hindered my travellings. Cutting your luggage down and packing more fund always builds things easier.

69: “Live your life by a compass , not a clock.”- Stephen Covey

People have turned to Covey for business advice for years, but I’ve found the most value in this one simple quote. I used to meticulously plan each trip down to the minute.

70: “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”- David Mitchell

David Mitchell’s best-selling novels typically involve traveling, as evidenced by this quote from” Cloud Atlas .” It’s difficult to get to know yourself when you’re stuck in the groove of normality. I always have the best self-awareness breakthrough after a period of travel and inner reflection.

71: “I travel because it constructs me realise how much I haven’t ensure, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.”- Carew Papritz

Being born in Yosemite National Park enabled the travel glitch to bite Papritz at birth. His thought-provoking spin on the purpose of travelling has greatly influenced me. I may never see it all, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try.

72: “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”- Anita Desai

Indian novelist Anita Desai nails this one with her inspiring quote about traveling. We’re all shaped by each of our experiences. I love it that every new adventure helps shape me for the better.

73: “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.”- Ray Bradbury

Bradbury’s books often transport readers to another time or place. We cannot travel to other time periods in the real world, but we can take in the architecture of the past.

74: “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.”- Mandy Hale

Author Mandy Hale embodies her standpoint as the” single girl with a narrative to tell .” I try to remind myself of this quote whenever life seems to be spinning out of control.

75: “Wherever you go, go with all your heart! ”- Confucius

Confucius was an early supporter of social equality who urged people to live a life of morality and sincerity. I’ve interpreted this quote to mean that it’s important to be fully committed to each new experience.

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75 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust (Ultimate List)

Best Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

Inspirational Travel Quotes

Are these the best travel quotes of all time? Feed your wanderlust with these inspirational travel quotes from famous travelers along with beautiful images you can share. Let the adventure begin!

I’m slightly embarrassed to say that I love inspirational travel quotes.

These memorable travel quotes accompanied by stunning photography have the ability to capture little moments of clarity that highlight truths about travel, adventure, and life.

Great traveling quotes like these remind me that emotions I’ve felt while traveling the world for the past 9 years have been experienced by many others.

We’re all beautifully connected with each other by a love for travel!

Enjoy these travel quotes? Feel free to share the quote photographs on Pinterest or Instagram! Also, check out my favorite motivational adventure quotes.

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Here are my favorite travel quotes of all time, paired with some photos from my personal adventures around the world. I often share them on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest.

You have permission to share these quote images on your own accounts too, all I ask in exchange is to please credit me when possible. Thanks!

I hope they inspire you to pack up everything and head out into the unknown, to explore the farthest reaches of our planet (and your soul) — to see the world for what it really is.

Browse these fun quotes when you need wanderlust motivation — to make travel a priority in your life!

Best Travel Quotes With Images

Traveling is one of the best ways to open your mind and heart to the world. As a result, I’ve experienced the full range of emotions during my travels.

Like a less-intense version of an astronaut’s overview effect.

Many of these travel quotes have inspired me to keep exploring. If you’re looking for inspiration to fuel your wanderlust, you’re certain to find the perfect quotation below!

Inspiring Travel Quotes

Adventure is always worth it!

Travel isn’t always pretty…

1: “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

3: “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

4: “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

A journey is best measured in friends…

5: “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

6: “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

7: “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

8: “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

9: “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

Famous Travel Quotes

We travel so life does not escape us.

10: “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

11: “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

I’ve heeded Henry David Thoreau’s advice on many occasions. In fact, of all the quotes about traveling I’ve collected here, this one has been the most influential. We can make excuses for not doing something, and in many cases, we blame others.

12: “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

13: “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

14: “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has courage…

15: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

16: “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

17: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

18: “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

19: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – Mark Twain

Anonymous Quotes On Traveling

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

20: “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

21: “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

22: “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

23: “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

24: “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

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You don’t have to be rich to travel well.

25: “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

26: “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

27: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

28: “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

Short Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

30: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

31: “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho

Yes, travel does require some money. However you’ll also need to gather enough courage to temporarily cast off everything about your daily life that makes it so comfortable — and boring.

32: “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

33: “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

34: “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

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Not all those who wander are lost…

35: “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

36: “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

37: “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

38: “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everything I’ve learned during my travels has forever expanded and changed my mind. This travel quote shows Holmes clearly grew in a similar way by visiting new lands.

39: “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

More Fun Traveling Quotes

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone…

40: “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

41: “Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

42: “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

43: “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

44: “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 Berry

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Take only memories, leave only footprints…

45: “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

46: “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

47: “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

48: “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

49: “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself…

50: “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

51: “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

52: “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

53: “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

54: “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

56: “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Alber Einstein

57: “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

58: “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven

59: “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

61: “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

63: “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

64: “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

65: “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

66: “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

67: “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

68: “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

69: “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

70: “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

71: “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz

72: “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

73: “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

74: “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrate it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale

75: “Wherever you go, go with all your heart!” – Confucius

Ready To Travel The World?

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Book Your Flight

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Rent A Car

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