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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

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1. “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

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

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

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

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

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

9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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

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

13. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

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

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

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

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

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

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

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

37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

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

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

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

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

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

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

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “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

51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

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

54. “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

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

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

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

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

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “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

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “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

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

65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

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

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

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

72. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

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

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

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

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

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

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

83. “We live in a 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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

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

88. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. 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

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –  Jack Kerouac

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

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

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

95. “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 (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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50 Inspirational Travel Quotes to Ignite the Wanderlust in You

As a child gazing at a world map, I would daydream about exploring every exotic shore on the horizon. However, embarking on my first transatlantic journey revealed how challenging travel can also be. From navigating unforeseen obstacles to trying new foods, each foray away from home transforms us.

Travel expands perspectives, unravels preconceived notions, and illuminates the rich tapestry of global cultures. These inspirational travel quotes capture the allure of discovering new places, overcoming adversity, and the personal growth inspired by our journeys. May the words ignite your own wanderlust spirit and send you voyaging to far-flung realms!

Key Takeaways:

The call of distant shores: travel quotes about new destinations, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tzu.

The Chinese philosopher highlights how even vast undertakings like world travel start small, with courage and intention. His wisdom inspired me to take my first solo trip to Asia . Though daunting, those initial steps created a path to the most rewarding experience of my life.

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

After hiking through jaw-dropping Yosemite Valley , I understood what Flaubert meant. Surrounded by towering granite cliffs and sequoia trees, I felt small yet connected to the grandeur of nature. Travel humbles and exhilarates us.

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Publilius Syrus

The ancient writer cautions that travel alone does not guarantee growth. We must approach our journeys with open minds, curiosity to learn, and critical thinking. Travel reveals our true natures.

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

Twain’s humor gets at a truth – sharing transport and living quarters reveals a travel companion’s character. Challenging situations will expose their integrity, patience, and problem-solving. Choose wisely for smooth journeys.

Embracing the Path Less Trodden: Quotes on Travel and Adventure

“life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller.

Despite blindness and deafness, travel gave Keller fascinating insights into human nature, heightened her remaining senses, and broadened her worldview. She encourages us not to let fear limit our adventurous sides.

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

Many associate wandering with aimlessness. But as Bilbo Baggins of The Hobbit discovered, sometimes finding your way requires getting intentionally lost and following where the road takes you.

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

No description or photo can ever match being enveloped by the damp heat of the Borneo jungle or deafened by the volcanic eruption in Tonga I witnessed. Some moments must be lived firsthand – so get out there!

“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Anonymous

While trying new foods could cause belly issues and hiking the Inca Trail knee aches, staying within our comfort zones can actually shrink our worlds. When we stop challenging ourselves, we stop living and learning.

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

This line from On the Road captures the restless spirit of adventure – to throw caution to the wind and risk it all for the freedom of the open road, come what may. It’s a siren call that tugs at every true wanderer’s soul.

The Gifts of the Journey: Quotes on the Benefits of Travel

“the more i traveled, the more i realized that fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” – shirley maclaine.

MacLaine aptly expresses how travel breaks down the barriers between us, laying bare our common humanity. Prejudices seem to fade when we actually connect with people .

“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – Sheda Savage

This quote perfectly captures the sense of returning from a journey feeling more full as a person, with a bank of indelible memories and learnings to enrich daily life. Travel indeed widens our mental horizons.

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

By staying home, we deprive ourselves of the fuller story and limit our knowledge of history, cultures, geographies, cuisines, languages, and more. Travel lets us read every chapter.

“Untouched by the customs and complexities of man, nature patiently waits to unleash her wonders on those who seek adventure.” – Pippa de Bruyn

De Bruyn inspires us to venture into remote corners where, free from human influence, nature surprises and rejuvenates the spirit. My trans-Siberian train journey through the stark Mongolian wilderness quenched my thirst for the rawness of the elements.

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Through constantly navigating new cultures, terrains, people, and languages, travel expands our competence and knowledge. Tackling each unfamiliar situation shapes us through experience. We return home as expanded versions of ourselves.

Unveiling the World’s Secrets: Quotes About Exploring New Places

“a mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – oliver wendell holmes, jr..

Holmes reveals how the insights gained through travel permanently change our psychology and worldview. After living in Mumbai , the poverty sharpened my gratitude and showed me how joy transcends wealth. My perspective forever transformed.

“The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

This quote by the great naturalist makes me think of one of the joys of map-gazing as a child – imagining how much was out there to discover. Muir inspires us to seize the daylight and set off on the ultimate adventure – exploring the planet.

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

The ancient Taoist master understood the magic that happens when travelers remain open to evolving journeys. Chance encounters, spontaneity and newfound freedom await those who let the journey unfold organically.

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

This reminder to tread lightly and respectfully should guide all travels. We take home cherished memories that enrich the soul. What we leave behind is our responsibility. From picking up trash to supporting local businesses, we vote with our actions to protect destinations.

The Tapestry of Global Traditions: Quotes About Different Cultures

“when we reject the single story, when we realize there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.” – chimamanda ngozi adichie.

Nigerian writer Adichie warns about the danger of a “single story” stereotype dominating perceptions of a people or place. By listening directly to locals’ multidimensional stories with empathy, we gain a nuanced cross-cultural understanding.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

Twain perfectly expresses how living within diverse cultures expands minds and dissolves ingrained biases. Experiential learning fills gaps left by classroom lessons alone. This quote serves as my ongoing anthem for cultivating empathy through travel.

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

Here the author highlights the out-of-body experience of observing one’s own culture from afar for the first time. In a loose sense, travel introduces you to yourself within the tapestry of global diversity. These reflections foster personal growth.

Triumphs on the Trail: Quotes About Overcoming Travel Challenges

“the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – marcel proust.

The French novelist illuminates that transformative travel is not just about seeing sights but gaining new perspectives. Visiting the pyramids shifted my perception of “old” from a negative to a sense of awe about human endurance.

Journeys That Shape Us: Quotes About Travel’s Transformative Power

“travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – anonymous.

This quote elegantly captures how travel enriches us far beyond a monetary value. The memories, knowledge, confidence, friendships, and personal growth sparked by travel develop the spirit in priceless ways.

“We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

Such a profound distinction – travel engages us far beyond the fleeting pleasures of a vacation. When we open ourselves to unfamiliar people and places, we open doors to transformation.

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

By testing ourselves in unfamiliar environments, the grit of travel reveals our true natures and we gain clearer self-knowledge. My solo backpacking trip helped me shed limiting beliefs about my introversion and capabilities.

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

Beyond sites seen, travel reveals humanity’s connective tissue. The shared joy and tribulations forge fast friendships. I still visit those I met on my very first hostel trip decades ago – they feel like old souls.

Timeless Travel Tales: Quotes on Creating Lasting Memories

“to travel is to live.” – hans christian andersen.

This pithy quote sums it up – immersing ourselves in new places and cultures makes us feel truly alive. Vibrant sights, sounds, and connections create indelible memories that enrich life after the journey ends.

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

Quindlen’s quote reflects how travel allows us to reinvent ourselves and craft new narratives. Career woman becomes nomad. Homebody tastes street food. Daily routines give way to unexpected adventures and discovery.

“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground.” – Paul Bowles

Eloquently put – there is no substitute for personally experiencing the textures and flavors of a place. Travel transforms foreign lands from abstractions into cherished memories that forge human connections.

Lessons Learned on the Road: Quotes About Personal Growth from Travel

“traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – peter hoeg.

The heightened novelty and stress of navigating new places often intensify reactions. Trips reveal the deepest aspects of relationships and force personal evolution at an accelerated pace.

“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

Keightley describes the awakening – travel liberates us from cultural conditioning and societal expectations. We relinquish roles to rediscover our authentic selves and what truly matters.

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

T.S. Eliot reminds us that the magic happens along the open road, with each twist and turn expanding our horizons – not just upon reaching the destination. Travel is about embracing the process, not the outcome.

The Essential Expedition: Quotes About Why Travel Matters

“travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – paulo coehlo.

While finances impact possibilities, at its core, travel demands the courage to venture beyond the familiar and comfortable. As Coehlo says, daring to explore opens our lives and selves.

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

Michener makes clear that keeping an open mind and embracing cultural differences are prerequisites for meaningful travel that fosters human kinship.

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

By absorbing the diversity of life in unfamiliar realms, we enrich our perspectives and grayscale turns technicolor. Staying put closes the book while travel turns every page.

May these quotes ignite your lifelong quest to boldly venture beyond horizons, open minds to humanity’s mosaic, and discover more authentic selves. Keep collecting inspiring passages to reflect upon while lacing up your boots before the next journey that calls you.

Which travel quote resonates most deeply with your own wanderlust spirit? Share your favorites to keep motivating fellow travelers and explorers.

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Inspirational Quotes That Prove Travel is Transformative

Inspirational quotes are meaningful in different ways for everyone. Some people may turn to quotes for inspiration to overcome an obstacle set before them while others seek reminders of how they’ve persevered. Others turn to quotes that perfectly describe their feelings for their sweetheart or humanity as a whole.

Like many others worldwide, I turn to inspirational quotes to lift my spirits when I feel discouraged. They remind me that I’m not alone and that people all over the world experience setbacks and negative emotions.

The   quotes at the top of my favorites list are those that affirm my belief that travel can be transformative, especially for people battling mental health issues such as depression or anxiety.

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I suffered depression and anxiety for years, but once I started traveling more, something changed in me. With each trip I took, my mental health improved, and my perception of the world and how I see myself in it shifted. I knew it wasn’t going ever to change back.

Because of this transformation, I travel differently than I ever have before. I went abroad for the first time in a decade  and traveled solo to New Zealand for three months . I often turn to the following nine quotes to help remind me of the changes I’ve gone through and for inspiration to continue pushing myself to grow.

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

The essence and ethos of this blog lie in the words of this first quote. If you are feeling down, go somewhere new and fresh. You’ll feel invigorated and renewed.

2. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights. It is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the minds of the living.” – Miriam Beard

This one really says it all, doesn’t it?

3. “A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become.” – Mahatma Gandhi

This quote can have many meanings. To me, it helps me remember that if I think I’m a capable, confident solo traveler, then I am indeed a capable, confident solo traveler.

4. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

The “what ifs” of travel should be embraced as opportunities for growth instead of limitations.

5. “The journey is the reward.” – Proverb

You are rewarded with lessons and insights about yourself by everything you do, see, and experience on your travels.

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

Experiences like traveling to a new country or exploring your own town in a new way, traveling long-term, or moving to a foreign country for work. The things you learn along the way change the way you think about the world and of yourself.

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

Travel is a way to see new destinations and an opportunity to learn how to see the world differently. Your view of the world shifts with each place you visit and new person you meet.

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

Not only the moon but also the southern night sky, epic foreign landscapes, and world-famous landmarks. You are forever changed once you see them for yourself, not on a computer screen.

9. “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” – Rumi

Travel gives you confidence, self-worth, and hope – all things lost for those who experience depression.

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I love quotes! ♥ Especially travel quotes! These I have never heard before but I found my favorite one: “A person is but the product of their thoughts. What they think, they become.”

I’m glad you like these ones. They mean a lot to me.

Hi Brittany! Kia Ora from NZ! Girl I agree with you travel is so good for mental health. It gives you a challenge, something to look forward to and a new perspective. I was so anxious an depressed before I came to NZ but now that I’m here I am a new woman. Travel can’t solve or stop our problems but it can help us learn new ways of coping and overcoming. Hope you are well girl. Hugs from NZ!

I’m thrilled that you’re having such a great time! <3

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These quotes about travel will soon have you packing your bag..

Posted January 2, 2013

This collection of travel quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers will soon have you planning a trip and packing your bags.

1.. “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

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

3. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

5. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

6. “Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” - Mark Twain

7. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

8. "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." - Susan Heller

9. "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." Seneca

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

11. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.

12. "People don’t take trips; trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

13. "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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

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

16. "Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer" - unknown

17. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” - Maya Angelou

18. "I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through." - Elizabeth Gilbert.

19. "Just do it." - Nike.

20. "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."- Henry Boye

21. "Paris is always a good idea." - Audrey Hepburn.

22. "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased." - John Steinbeck.

23. "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

24. "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." - Mohammed

25. "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." - Lawrence Durrell

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Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

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

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

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

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

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

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

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

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“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

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

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

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

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

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

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

Adventure Travel Quotes

“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

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

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

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

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

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

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

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

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

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

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

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

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

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

“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

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

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

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

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

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

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

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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80 Short Travel Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

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With 64% of women and 75% of men still living in the city they grew up in, you might be forgiven for thinking that the world is a small place, but there’s a whole planet out there that’s just waiting to be explored. Far more than just a 2-week vacation, traveling opens the mind and introduces us to experiences we will never be able to sample at home.

Showing us sights, sounds, flavors, and even smells that we’ve never tried before, different destinations can completely change our lives for the better, and teach us far more than we could ever learn in a classroom or from a textbook. You only have to read through this collection of travel quotes to see just how essential traveling is to our souls.

Whether you are looking back on vacations past or looking forward to visiting new and exciting faraway shores, these travel quotes will inspire you to get out there and take in as much of the world as you can. With busy working lives, you may only manage one annual vacation, but if you do as the Dalai Lama advises, seeing just one new place each year will broaden your horizons and enrich your life in ways you never thought possible.

If you’re looking for more inspiration to travel, take a look at these inspirational quotes and these adventure quotes .

Travel Quotes

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind” – Ralph Crawshaw

“There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything.” – Adam Richman

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

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“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!” – Penelope Riley

“Travel empties out everything you’ve put into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are.” – Claire Fontaine

“Travel brings power and love back into your life. – Rumi Jalalud” – Din

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

“With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

“Would you still want to travel to that country If you could not take a camera with you. – a question of appropriation.” – Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.” – Anonymous

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.” – Mohammed

“Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.” – Aaron Lauritsen

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” – Lewis Carroll

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.” – Pico Iyer

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

“I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.” – Justina Chen Headley

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

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

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

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

“Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.” – Abercrombie

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

“Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It’s exciting to start as young as possible – you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.” – Natalie Dormer

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness., and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” – Agnes Repplier

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“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

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller

“Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

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

“They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s easy to fall off.” – Anderson Cooper

“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

“He who has not traveled widely thinks that his mother is the best cook.” – African Proverb

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

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

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

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

“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams” – Oprah Winfrey

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

“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

“I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.” – Hedy Lamarr

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

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.” – Freya Stark

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

“Travel more to see more to live more.” – Debasish Mridha

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

“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown

“Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Laozi

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

“I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

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

“It’s a big world out there. It would be a shame not to experience it” – J. D. Andrews

“One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

“Traveling is the great true love of my life… I am loyal and constant in my love of travel. I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby – I just don’t care what it puts me through. Because I adore it. Because it’s mine. Because it looks exactly like me.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.” – Caleb Johnson

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

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

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

“I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it…it all depends on who I travel with.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“Traveling is more fun — hell, life is more fun — if you can treat it as a series of impulses.” – Bill Bryson

“What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.” – Ruzwana Bashir

“It’s important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you’ve got more to feedback into your work. For me, it’s a natural thing.” – Cate Blanchett

“Travelling the road, last known is where I want to be.” – Paper Lions

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey” – Pat Conroy

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

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again. — Jane Wilson” – Howarth

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

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

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.— Jane Wilson” – Howarth

“A wise man travels to discover himself.” – James Russell Lowell

“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

“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” – Andrew Zimmern

“Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

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25 Inspiring Travel Quotes That Will Ignite Your Wanderlust

Invest your money into creating amazing memories that will last a lifetime. here are 25 travel quotes that will ignite your wanderlust..

If you ask someone about their hobbies, many of them will enthusiastically start talking about traveling and how much they love doing it.

People are curious by nature – we want to know and we want to see how people in different cultures live. We love visiting places that reveal history, tradition and old customs.

And if you’re not into traveling as much and

you feel more comfortable with the places you’ve known all your life, maybe

some of the following travel quotes will make you change your perspective a

little bit.

It can be hard to get out of your shell, but

you only have one life and it’s up to you to make every moment worthwhile. So

take a friend and check out everything this world has to offer: breathe a new

air, taste an odd looking food, gaze at the amazing buildings, learn about

different cultures and different ways of living.

The next time you think about buying new

things that you really don’t need, think twice. Save that money and invest it

into creating memories that will last a lifetime.

Here are 25 travel quotes that will ignite your wanderlust

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! CHIEF SEATTLE

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. MARK TWAIN ( more Mark Twain quotes )

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. Ibn Battuta

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. HELEN KELLER ( more Helen Keller quotes )

Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT ( more Gustave Flaubert quotes )

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

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. CONFUCIUS ( more Confucius quotes )

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself. WALLACE STEVENS

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

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY ( more Ernest Hemingway quotes )

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. MAYA ANGELOU (More Maya Angelou quotes )

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. JACK KEROUAC

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it Is lethal. PAULO COELHO (More Paulo Coelho quotes )

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. BABS HOFFMAN

Travel. The best way to be lost… and found… at the same time. BRENNA SMITH

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ANDRE GIDE

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

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

I would rather own little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it. ALEXANDER SATTLER

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ANAÏS NIN (More Anais Nin quotes )

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

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. SENECA

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. HILAIRE BELLOC

I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them -- wherever you go. ANTHONY BOURDAIN

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that Goddamn mountain. JACK KEROUAC (More Jack Kerouac quotes )

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Little Boy With Heart Condition Sworn In As Police Officer

Expecting mothers can't help but have secret expectations for their future little one. It's only human. You have this little soul inside you, kicking and growing until they are ready to come into the world. Pregnancy is filled with emotions! You picture their life. You wonder what they will look like and who they will be.

Then, there's the morning sickness, the soreness, the weight gain and the dreaded pain of birth. But in the end it's all worth it, to meet your tiny person. Finally you meet them, you hold them for the first time, their little body resting on your chest.

Now imagine your newborn being ripped from your arms and rushed into an emergency procedure. Now imagine that exact feeling 58 more times, and you can begin to understand the heartbreaking reality of one mother and her 6-year-old son, Keyjuan Andrew.

This 6-Year-Old Boy Has Spent Half His Life In Hospitals

Since his birth, Keyjuan Andrew, 6, has spent much of his young life within the sterile walls of hospitals. As a baby, his first moments were spent under the glare of operating lights, while his mother, Jessica Krentowski and family waited with bated breath.

Growing up with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome has meant enduring numerous medical procedures — 58 to be exact — and a total of 15 surgeries. It's a journey that most adults would find grueling, but Keyjuan has faced each step with courage and resilience.

Despite these challenges, Keyjuan has miraculously kept his childlike sense of wonder. He has become a familiar face among the doctors and nurses who have cared for him, often bringing smiles with his bright energy. He has made friends with other young patients, sharing his stories and uplifting those around him. Though much of his life has been spent in hospitals, he hasn't let it diminish his joy for life.

On Patrol with Officer Keyjuan For A Day

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" is a question nearly every kid has an answer to. Common responses are firefighter, ballerina, president, and, of course, police officer. For Keyjuan Andrew, becoming a police officer was his ultimate dream, and thanks to the Lynwood Police Department, that dream came true.

In a special ceremony, Keyjuan was officially sworn in as an honorary officer, a moment he had long anticipated. The ceremony was filled with applause and admiration as Keyjuan stood proudly in his new uniform. As part of his day as an honorary officer, he was given the chance to go on patrol with Lynwood Police Chief Gregory Thomas.

With his badge pinned to his chest and a smile on his face, Keyjuan rode along in the police car, his eyes wide with excitement. The officers treated him like one of their own, explaining their work and sharing the values of their profession. It was an unforgettable experience that left Keyjuan beaming and inspired their entire community.

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Redefining expectations and embracing hope.

When expecting parents discuss the future, they often say that their hopes for their baby are simple: "Boy, girl, it doesn't matter, as long as the baby is healthy." These words reflect the profound truth that good health is the foundation upon which all other dreams are built. But what happens when those dreams are challenged by a diagnosis that changes everything?

Keyjuan Andrew's story serves as a poignant reminder that the path to parenthood — and to a fulfilling life — isn't always straightforward. Despite facing a condition that brought countless medical procedures and surgeries, Keyjuan and his family have found strength in the moments of joy and courage in the face of uncertainty. They have shown that while health is a crucial part of the journey, it isn't the only source of dreams.

Through the loving support of family and community, Keyjuan has accomplished remarkable things that go far beyond a simple definition of health. His induction as an honorary police officer wasn't just a ceremony — it was a testament to his resilience, a celebration of a young boy's spirit, and a symbol of hope for everyone around him.

Keyjuan's story inspires us to broaden our expectations and embrace the unexpected. He has proven that even in the face of overwhelming medical challenges, life can be filled with purpose, laughter, and hope. His journey reminds us that while we may start with certain expectations, the real magic happens when we find joy in the most unexpected places. The measure of a child's life isn't just their health; it's the courage, love, and hope they bring to the world.

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Ever wondered how power couple, Beyoncé and Jay-Z keep their love alive for 16 years? Hint: luck has nothing to do with it. If you've been blaming your failed relationships on "the wrong person"—think again. It may be time to reconsider who is really at fault.

Just like building a dream career, successful relationships don't happen overnight and they don't happen by chance. It takes hard work, thoughtful strategizing, and it isn't always "sexy." Forget the glitz and glam—these power couples know the real secret lies in setting goals and boundaries. From cozy date nights to self-care, these are a few A-listers who are masters at making love last.

Ready to unlock their secrets?

A Lasting, Passionate Relationship Isn't Just For Starry-Eyed Romantics—It's For Skeptics Too!

According to award-winning psychotherapist and TV host Dr. Jenn Mann, the #1 reason relationships don't make it past the 1-year mark is because as soon as our relationship doesn't go according to plan, tensions can get so high, the whole relationship crumbles.

"It is easy to get along in the honeymoon phase of a relationship. During the early stages, when we are falling in love, all we see is how alike we are and how wonderful our new partner is. We see our commonalities, not our differences. “You like pizza. I like pizza! We are so alike! We are perfect for each other!” We are merged. We feel like one person, a unit, a “we.” The first time we see our differences, it may feel like a huge betrayal (“What do you mean you voted for him?”), because it marks the moment when we are thrown back into the reality of being two separate people with different thoughts and beliefs." So what about all the people who make it past the honeymoon phase? The "1 year mark"? Does that mean they have it all figured out? Jenn Mann , Instyle

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Maybe...but maybe not. Ask yourself are your partner really share a deep and powerful connection, or are you just co-existing...like glorified roommates?

We've all heard the dreaded saying, "I love them but I'm not in love with them"—in fact, we've probably even said it ourselves, but what if we told you that being "in love" isn't the luck of the draw you think it is?

What Are Relationship Goals? Why Are They Important?

Relationship goals are more than just whimsical fantasies or Instagram-worthy snapshots; they are the guiding principles that steer a couple toward a fulfilling and harmonious partnership. At their core, relationship goals encompass the shared visions, aspirations, and milestones that both partners aim to achieve together. These goals provide a roadmap for growth, fostering communication, understanding, and mutual respect along the way.

Most importantly, they serve as your relationship-sonar in times of turbulence so you and your co-pilot can navigate the storm together. From building trust and deepening intimacy to navigating challenges as a united front, setting relationship goals cultivates a sense of purpose and commitment that strengthens the bond between partners.

In essence, relationship goals aren't just important—they are the foundation upon which enduring love is built.

How to Get Clear on Your Love Goals

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Whether you're in a happily committed relationship, enjoying the thrill of new love, or searching for a partner, setting relationship goals is within everyone's reach. But before we dive into pursuing the love we desire, it's important to have a clear idea of what that love actually looks like.

Some Questions To Ask Yourself

• What does my ideal, healthy relationships look like?
• What romantic relationships do I idealize?
• How would my partner and I stay on the same page or resolve conflict?
• How do I prefer to receive love from my partner?
• How would my partner and I best communicate in everyday life?

When it comes to setting relationship goals, it's not one-size-fits-all. Getting a clear picture of what a healthy relationship looks like for you may be vastly different than what it looks like for a friend or a family member.

Don't be afraid to compare notes but try and stay away from comparing goals.

The 8 Most Important Couple Goals To Set And When

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First and foremost, relationship goals should be something both you and your partner set together. Setting one-sided couple goals probably isn't the best idea and will likely lead to disappointment. You have to start somewhere—and the best place to start is on the same page.

"When Ryan and I got together, we made a rule not to work at the same time so that we could always prioritize our personal life. That takes working really hard when we're not. Just like financial planning and sustaining that - it takes balance." Blake Lively, Further Ado Podcast

If you're drawing a blank on what an appropriate relationship goal looks like, here are the 8 most important things to know when it comes to making your relationship work.

#1. Understand Each Other's " Love Language "

Counselor, Gary Chapman coined the widely popular theory of the "Five Love Languages". In his work, Chapman found that couples often had difficulty feeling and expressing love (despite their partner's best efforts). So he broke down the themes from these discussions into what's known as the five love languages:

• Physical touch
• Quality time
• Acts of service
• Words of affirmation.

Chances are, you and your partner don't have the same love language. The chances are even higher that you show your partner love the way you want to receive love. It's a bit of a trap. The problem probably looks a little something like this :

• After a long work week, you spend hours cooking your partner their all-time favorite meal (acts of service)—the least they could do is wash the dishes (acts of service).
• Instead, the dishes pile up in the sink while they run over to the TV and put on your favorite movie for a Netflix and cuddle sesh (Quality Time, Physical Touch).
• Even though their heart's in the right place, you can't enjoy the movie because you're too busy thinking if they really "loved" you...that casserole dish wouldn't be soaking in the sink.

It easy to see why identifying you and your partner's love language is a quick way to get crossed wires, uncrossed. Good news is, "quality time" is one of the most common love languages and it here's a simple hack to get it right.

#2. Commit To A Weekly Date Night — "Don't Stop The Romance"

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If there's one thing Suzanne Somers and Alan Hamel knew how to get right—it was romance.

After 55 years together, Somers heartbreakingly passed away in 2023 and fans were overwhelmed by Hamel's masterful letter he wrote to Somers in her final days. He found a way to pack 55 years of love into one last, beautiful, tearjerking punch.

READ MORE: On Her Final Night, Suzanne Somers’ Read Alan Hamel’s Love Letter – A Beautiful Look at Love After 46 Years

But even though the love of his life would leave him too soon—Hamel and Somers lived with no regrets. They made every moment on earth together count. In rain or shine—dressed up or dressed down—the soulmates famously shared the secret to their marriage:

"Listen to one another, give each other a lot of attention, keep it exciting, date. My marriage is very romantic. … We might sit here and have a tequila. … We dance, I cook, we sit out and watch the moonlight on the ocean." Suzanne Somers

They also reportedly had sex twice a day—but who's counting!

#3. Maintain The Physical Connection

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While we may not all have the libido of ThighMaster influencer Suzanne Somers we don't have to! When it comes to setting relationship goals around intimacy don't underestimate the significance of physical touch.

Incorporating consistent physical connection into your relationship offers numerous benefits. Simple gestures like hand-holding, hugs, or a reassuring pat on the shoulder can trigger the release of oxytocin, the "feel-good hormone," while also reducing cortisol levels, the body's stress hormone.

While physical intimacy is undeniably important, it's crucial to understand that it's just one facet of intimacy in a relationship. Intellectual, spiritual, and emotional connections are equally vital. Creating a safe and comfortable environment where both partners understand each other's preferences and boundaries enhances the pleasure derived from physical touch.

However, it's essential to approach physical intimacy with sensitivity and awareness. Attempting to force physical closeness or using it as a substitute for deeper emotional connection can backfire. Achieving a healthy balance in physical touch requires open communication, mutual understanding of body language, and respect for each other's boundaries.

Remember, physical connection encompasses more than just sexual intimacy. From a warm hug in the morning to a sweet kiss goodnight, there are countless ways to express affection and strengthen the bond with your partner.

You don't need to be an expert in massage therapy to reap the benefits of physical touch—simple gestures can go a long way in nurturing intimacy and emotional well-being. So, prioritize physical connections and make them an integral part of your relationship journey.

However, try not to get the purpose of the "love languages" confused. Showing your partner "love" is so important but it's not a substitute for the sometimes hard conversations.

#4. Improve Your Communication

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When it comes to love communication really is key—and miscommunications are one of the first things that can tear a couple apart.

As you’re building your list of goals, an important thing to think about is the way you and your partner communicate. It's easy to make the assumption that our partner knows exactly how we feel–—but assumptions can be deadly to a relationship. No matter how long the two of you have been together, your partner can never know what you truly feel unless you tell them. So prioritize communication.

"If I was going to have an equal voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up." - Michelle Obama, "Becoming"

Understanding how your partner feels and why they think this way is critical to a healthy romantic partnership. Different backgrounds, upbringings and experiences can sometimes make it difficult to see things from our partner's perspective. Make it part of your relationship goals to better understand one another.

If communication is a couple goal you both want to prioritize but have trouble with, seeking the help of a licensed therapist to act as an unbiased evaluator can be a great tool to utilize.

Just ask Barack Obama and Michelle Obama! After 30 years together, the former President and First Lady have openly credited therapy as a huge help in making sure they are always on the same page!

#5. Discuss Your Shared Values And Prepare For Values To Change AS You Grow

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One of the biggest miscommunications a couple can have is thinking they have the same values—only to find out, in big relationship-defining moments they couldn't be more wrong. A relationship-defining moment could be when a couple is deciding how they want to raise their children or whether or not they want to get married. This discovery can be devastating. The million-dollar question is, how do you avoid it?

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are great examples of a Hollywood "it" couple who had miscommunications and learned from it. "Bennifer" didn't make it the first time around—and the exes went on to raise their children in very different ways—with Lopez opting for a more lavish Miami lifestyle and Affleck keeping it low-key in LA. So what changed? What made this couple reunite years later?

Did the stars align? Or did they just get clear on their shared values?

Though the two went their separate ways in 2004, 17 years later they resurrected one of Hollywood’s favorite romances. After being spotted on multiple loved-up outings and at red-carpet appearances together, they were finally married in 2023. But before they tied the knot the couple made it a priority to talk about what mattered and how this time was going to be different.

In an exclusive sit down with VOGUE, Lopez shared how the second time around was even better than the first. They had years to mature and become full-formed individuals. When they reunited they were no longer "two halves" struggling to make a whole. They were two whole people coming together who put their shared family values first, instead of their careers.

He’s a wonderful, wonderful father and father figure to them as well, ’cause he has his own three beautiful children and then there’s us. He’s fantastic. He really steps up to the challenge of what [being a stepfather] is and what that means, and they love him." Jennifer Lopez, VOGUE (2023)

Lopez and Affleck's story is a revealing reminder of the significance of aligning with a partner who shares your values, particularly when envisioning a future together. While initial discussions about important topics such as living arrangements, family planning, and career aspirations may lay the foundation for a strong connection, it's crucial to recognize that values can evolve over time.

Continual communication about evolving priorities and aspirations is essential for maintaining harmony and alignment within the relationship. Whether it's a shift in living preferences or a newfound desire to establish roots in a specific location, addressing these changes openly and honestly fosters understanding and prevents potential conflicts down the road.

If identifying your and your partner's values may feel too broad, here are the 7 most important "core values " according to psychotherapist and celebrity relationship guru, Esther Perel.

• Communication : Keeping open lines of communication with your partner can set you up to have a successful relationship. The busyness of life can make it challenging for couples to keep one another informed. However, maintaining a clear back-and-forth of information is the only way to ensure the relationship will be sustainable.
• Equality : Seeing each other as equals fosters mutual respect. This can create a deeper emotional connection and create greater intimacy between you and your partner.
• Honesty : Honesty and trust go hand in hand. Being honest with your loved one allows you to build a healthy relationship. Without honesty, the foundation of the relationship can falter and lead to heartbreak.
• Intimacy : Take time for physical and emotional intimacy. You should not ignore a healthy sex life, frequent displays of affection, and date nights.
• Shared beliefs : Religious beliefs can play a significant part in a person’s life. Though religious differences do not always signal a deal-breaker, having shared beliefs can make navigating through life together, especially if parenting, easier.
• Trust : Every good relationship needs a foundation of trust. Relationship experts claim trust is the most important value of every successful relationship. Without trust, romantic relationships quickly deteriorate.
• Validation : Emotional validation is the process of making your partner feel understood. Ensure you acknowledge their points of view and emotions. Emotional validation provides mental health benefits and is a healthy way to care for your partner's well-being.

While it's highly unlikely you and your partner will share all values, you and your partner must have at least 3-5 of these values in common.

#6. Support One Another—No Matter What"Always supporting me (literally)"

The #1 most important shared values a couple needs to have, is family values. David Beckham and Victoria Beckham may just be the best example when it comes to demonstrating how powerful supporting your partner can be (literally)! After all, you're not just building a life together...you're building your forever family.

Even though celebs are stars in their own right—over 25 years together have proven the power couple are partners in work and in life. The couple share four children: Brooklyn , 24, Romeo , 21, Cruz , 19, and Harper Seven , 11.

In their widely successful Netflix doc, Beckham , The Beckhams unpack years of their life together. The ups (winning a World Cup), the downs (the cheating scandal that nearly broke them), and everything in between!

The power couple may lead crazy busy lives but it's never stopped them from making sure family comes first.

"Running a business [and] most importantly, being a mum, wouldn't be possible without David. Not only is he the most incredible father, but he's supportive and someone who loves and inspires me every single day." Victoria Beckham, Glamour Women of the Year Award.

The bottom line is—if you're putting them before you and they are putting you before them, you have the best chance for success. But supporting your partner can look different depending on the situation. It's not about blindly agreeing to everything they say. Sometimes it looks like challenging their beliefs to help them grow

#7. Fight Fair—Be A "Master Negotiator"

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Disagreements in relationships are inevitable. How delicately a couple navigates conflicts can make or break a relationship. So that's why if you're going to fight, fight fair. Or in other words: compromise!

"I think everybody needs to be a negotiator. Everybody needs to have patience and know when to take a walk." James Brolin, PEOPLE

After 25 years of marriage to the legendary diva Barbra Streisand, it should go without saying that Brolin knows a thing or two about conflict resolution. His advice couldn't be more spot on.

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Research suggests that "happy couples" avoid criticism, steer clear of extreme language, and prevent arguments from escalating through joint problem-solving.

If you know your partner shuts down when things get heated, don't push their boundaries and force them to give you answers. Step back. Give them space to think. Or in James Brolin's words let them "take a walk."

Fighting fair can look like this:

• Knowing how your partner's conflict resolution style may differ from your own
• Respecting your partner's boundaries
• Making your needs known

If this all sounds like a lot—one simple trick to remember when you're in a heated debate with your partner is to avoid starting a sentence with "you always..." or "you never..."!

Do they always leave the toilet seat up? They never take out the garbage?

Probably not. But the truth is, remembering this when we're "seeing red" can feel impossible. In the middle of a fight—the #1 most important thing to remember is this—what outcome do we really want after passions cool and the fight is over?

Do we want to hurt or do we want to heal?

#8. Manage Your Emotions—Don't Forget You Want The Same Outcome!

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It shouldn't come as a surprise that effective communication is critical for a healthy relationship, but just because this goal is simple—doesn't mean it's easy.

When we have a problem with our partner it can be tempting to "outsource" for advice. We may call our mom or a best friend. We swear we're "just venting," but a lot of the time what we are looking for is advice.

That's not always a bad thing! But it can be a slippery slope (especially when you're not dealing with a licensed professional).

We can be quick to tell everyone what our problem with our partner is...except our partner!

That's why after over 30 years of marriage to Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker's best piece of advice is to "keep things just between the two of you".

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Asking outside opinions can distract us from dealing with the real problem. We can't expect someone to change if they don't know what is going on with us, right?

If Your Partner Calls You The More "Emotional" One...

If your partner calls you the more "emotional" one, when problems arise, you're probably pretty reactive. Chances are you read into every little action and behavior—when they seem "distant" you take it personally.

The "emotional one" is the person pacing in the living room, interrogating their partner who sits silently on the couch cross-armed. It's confusing. The more you try to "communicate"—the more they shut down.

But remember facts are not feelings! Sometimes when you think you're communicating—you're not. You may phrase your insecurities like a question—but really you're making a statement.

For Example: In a tense car ride after leaving your mother-in-law's house you may ask your partner, "Why do you never stand up for me?" Even though it's phrased like a question it's not. You're telling them they never stand up for you. It makes sense they may get defensive or shut down completely.

That's not a conversation. That's a confrontation.

If you're a volcanic eruption of emotions all your partner is going to want to do is step on rocks to dodge the hot lava!

Conflict Resolution Tip: For The "Emotional Ones"

Try taking a beat and not being so reactive. Breathe and ask yourself if the big emotions you're experiencing are rooted in reality. Then sit with it for a few days.

If you're still feeling you have something you need to say, then say it!

Your partner may get defensive but trust they will come around—because they want your relationship to work too. Don't jump on every little word they say. Wait it out. Actively listen instead of waiting for what you want to hear.

Don't take their pace personally. Just because you may want to "fix" the problem right away, doesn't mean it's always the right answer.

If Your Partner Calls You The More "Emotionally Unavailable" One...

For the "emotionally unavailable" ones, communicating looks completely different.

Unlike their partners, the "emotionally unavailable" ones tend to suppress and detach from their relationship conflicts. This can lead to big miscommunications that eventually push their partner away in the long run—which isn't what they want!

If the "Emotional" partner seems to care too much— the "emotionally unavailable" partner doesn't seem to care at all. However no matter how convincing their act may be, this isn't the truth.

The emotionally unavailable partner wants to be seen and heard too. They just don't know how to process their feelings at the same rate! The "emotional" partner has a tendency to take over the conversation and leave little room for the "emotionally unavailable" partner to process their feelings and say their piece.

So instead, they shut down. But what these personality types don't understand is their partner wants to hear how they feel. They just have a hard time asking instead of guessing.

RELATED: HOW YOUR ATTACHMENT STYLE AFFECTS YOUR RELATIONSHIP

Once you can identify why this caused you to feel a certain way, try and get into these habits:

• Talk to loved ones about what they’re feeling
• Write down what you think and feel
• Try meditation or therapy
• Exercise to relieve stress and increase endorphins
• Practice being aware of their thoughts when they’re emotional
• Remove themselves from an emotional situation if it is becoming uncontrollable

Don't be afraid to discuss these goals with your partner. It's about progress not perfection. They just want reassurance that you care. Don't be afraid to ask for them to work on their emotional regulation too.

These sorts of goals are often best met when both parties are working together, and often key components of a more lasting love.

If nothing else remember: it's not a confrontation, it's a conversation!

How to set goals: a normal and healthy part of a relationship.

You understand why it's essential to set goals in a healthy and thriving relationship and have a few couple goals in mind that you'd like to discuss with your partner. Now it's time to sit down and have a conversation. Here are a few tips for setting relationship goals with your significant other.

• Choose a neutral space to discuss relationship goals
• Determine the length of time for each relationship goal
• Set check-in dates for each relationship goal
• Include at least one fun relationship goal
• Make sure your relationship goals are measurable
• Evaluate how your love goals make you feel
• Make sure your couple goals are equally weighted

Don't just set and forget your goals. Consistency is key. Achieving goals requires ongoing work from both you and your partner.

It Works If You Work It—Because You're Worth It!

Setting relationship goals takes time and effort – but the payoff is worth it. Even if you decide to start small, setting couple goals will undoubtedly yield a stronger relationship.

However it's important to remember while there is no shame in working on your relationship don't mistake setting goals with trying to change your partner. Sadly, sometimes when a relationship has soured it's a case of not-meant-to-be that all the self-help books in the world can't fix.

However, if you're merely ironing out the wrinkles with the right person and you both share aligned love goals, you'll have a clear pathway for achieving them and a means of assessing your relationship goals as you move forward. It's important to keep in mind that working towards relationship goals should be a positive endeavor – something that feels rewarding and enjoyable.

"Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you." Kristen Bell

With the right tools, effort and mindset, you can use relationship goals to build the future you want with your partner.

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They say money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you a yoga class and a resort room with a beachfront view

I promise I’m a lot nicer than my resting yoga face

New fitness goal: RUN out of pages in my passport

If you have time for insta, you have time for yoga

Life has its ups and downs — we call them sun salutations

Do yoga first thing in the morning, before your brain figures out you’re exercising

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Almond butter is the glue that holds this mind and body together

Good healthy food = Good healthy mood

Bulletproof coffee makes for a bulletproof day

Some days you drink green smoothies and do yoga. Some days you eat cupcakes and refuse to put on pants. It’s called balance.

Never eat ingredients you can’t pronounce. Except for quinoa. There are always exceptions to the rules.

I’m one in a melon

Good food is my aura

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinback

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

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

“Conventional wisdom tells us…we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” – Eric Weiner

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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” — Martin Buber

“Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.” — Karen Gibbs

“Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” — Oscar Wilde

“Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” — Paolo Coelho

“You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” – Paul Theroux

You can’t pour from an empty cup. And, I prefer a cup full of kombucha by the beach.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started on my tan lines.

Motivation is what gets you started. A travel habit is what keeps you going.

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I follow my heart, and it usually leads me to a yoga mat.

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Don’t call it a dream, call it an adventure.

Go where you feel most alive.

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Yoga pants. Because jeans and travel are stressful and you don’t need that in your life.

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I’m a travel addict on the road to detox. Just kidding, I’m headed to the airport.

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7 ways travel can benefit your mental health

Jan 20, 2021 • 6 min read

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The benefits of travel go beyond making memories and meeting new people. Getting out of your comfort zone and exploring a new place can have a remarkably positive impact on your emotional wellbeing. 

Even in these times when traveling far distances can feel uncertain, changing up your daily routine at a nearby town or locale on a weekend day can help to change your mindset and help to ease the stress of the daily grind. 

Here are seven ways travel can be good for your mental health.

1. It can help you stay fit and healthy

Physical exercise is known to improve mental wellbeing, and travel offers ample opportunity to get active. Whether you enjoy pounding the pavement on a city break, swimming in the sea or summiting mountain peaks , getting to know a new destination by embracing the great outdoors can boost energy levels and improve your mood.

Immersing yourself in and connecting with nature is another key way to reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression – and while you can do this anywhere (even in cities), it makes sense to incorporate a little ecotherapy into your travels too.

2. It shakes up the status quo

Whether you venture abroad or simply to the next town over, taking a break from your usual routines with a trip away from home can help break negative cycles, get you out of a rut and reveal a world of possibilities beyond your bubble.

'When I'm in a period of depression, getting out of the house and out of negative routines (for me, wallowing on the couch and eating junk food) can help to clear my head and give me the space to properly consider the things my brain is telling me,' says David Owen , YA author and former travel editor. 'Going somewhere completely outside of my usual sphere, be that close to home or abroad, can be an effective way of gaining both literal and metaphorical distance. If nothing else, I have interesting stuff to go and look at and do as a distraction!'

3. It gives you a different perspective

Experiencing different cultures can open your eyes to new ways of living. Something as simple as learning a new recipe or changing the way you spend your downtime can have a dramatic effect on your wellbeing. Travel can lead you to question and challenge the norms of everyday life at home, potentially inspiring you to make positive changes.

When I feel my own stress levels rising, for example, I like to think back to my experiences riding in tuk-tuks in Sri Lanka . As we overtook buses on blind corners, dodged death-wish pedestrians and got cut up by countless motorbikes, our driver remained relaxed and took it all in his stride, as did other road users. Despite the chaos, everyone was calm. After a few of these journeys, my own worries and bewilderment dissipated as I realized that the alternative responses – fear or road rage – serve no one. I try to apply this lesson to my life at home: you cannot control the actions of others – only the way you respond to them.

4. It increases creativity

It’s been scientifically proven that new experiences – particularly ones that allow you to immerse yourself in a different culture – improve the neuroplasticity of your brain, increasing creativity in the process. After a stint of grief-induced agoraphobia, Erica Buist traveled around the world to take part in seven festivals for the dead – and wrote a book about it.

'I helped build an altar for the dead in Mexico , danced in a parade in Nepal , learned enough Japanese to get by in Kyoto  and in Madagascar , I got hit in the head by a corpse (it was on the shoulders of its dancing descendants)', she says. 'Every now and again I feel a shadow of not wanting to leave the house, but after all the experiences I’ve had, it’s hard to doubt my ability to get to the shops. Travel is stressful, even when it’s wonderful, and now when things go south it's almost like the travel I've done is a benchmark I know I can get back to.’

5. It lowers stress levels

Sometimes all your body and mind need is a rest – and where better to chill out than on a sun lounger somewhere warm? Sunshine is a great stress-buster, giving you a dose of mood-boosting vitamin D and increasing the brain’s release of serotonin, the so-called ‘happy hormone’. Leaving work stress and the everyday routine behind in exchange for afternoon naps, leisurely walks and the freedom to make your own schedule can do your mental health the world of good. Spending time away with friends and loved ones can add to the feel-good factor, while solo travel can refresh your sense of independence.

6. It boosts self-esteem and confidence

Travel isn’t always swaying palms and spa days. It can also mean navigating crowds in excessive heat, getting lost, struggling with language barriers or culture shock – all of which is extra challenging if you’re prone to feeling down or anxious. Claire and Laura from Twins that Travel have found that dealing with travel stress has helped them cope in their everyday lives.

‘For us, travel has become an unlikely form of therapy for our anxiety. By keeping our worlds "big", travel gives context to the smaller tasks in life that can often feel overwhelming when you suffer with anxiety. For example, the elation of stepping off a plane after getting ourselves to the other side of the world makes completing a short train journey seem easily achievable. Travel continues to keep our lives open and fulfilled, which in turn, leads to better mental health.’

7. It’s an act of self-care

When you’re feeling low, it’s easy to feel guilty or undeserving of nice things. But treating yourself to a trip – whether it’s a staycation or far-flung getaway – can be an empowering act of self-care.

‘Of course, anxiety and depression can make traveling difficult. Anxiety makes me worry about doing it, and depression both saps my energy to organize it and tells me I'm not worth the effort,’ says David. ‘Planning a trip can be a good way to push through that and show yourself some love or give yourself some purpose.’

As well as the focus and excitement travel planning can bring, travel itself grants you the freedom to do what you love, take time to rest and practice living in the moment. To this end, for many people, travel is not simply an enjoyable pastime, but an essential part of fostering a healthy, positive mindset.

Please note:  If you do suffer with mental health problems, make sure you read up on government advice and healthcare guidance , as well as talking it through with trusted people in your support network, before choosing to embark on a trip.

You might also like: Healthline's Dr. Jenny Yu: What it means to travel "well" in a pandemic How to take care of your mental wellness in times of COVID-19 Six tips for curbing pre-flight tension

This article was first published November 2019 and updated January 2021

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Travel Inspired: 25 Quotes for Travelers

Travel nurses are adventurers, like the writers of these famous travel quotes

By the TravelNursing.com staff

Why do people travel? Why do nurses become travel nurses? To make a change, to experience something new, to find adventure, to grow and learn, or to discover themselves--the reasons are almost endless. Travel has been inspiring writers, philosophers and adventurers for centuries. After all, nothing can make one look at life through fresh eyes like journeying to a new place, meeting new people and living in a new environment.

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So, if you’re looking to rejuvenate your nursing career and your personal life, consider the possibilities of travel nursing with these 25 inspiring quotes for travelers:

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” –  Mary Ritter Beard

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

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

“Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“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 (attributed)

“I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.” ― Susan Sontag

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” ―Agnes Repplier

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken

“The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” – Freya Stark

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” ― Eugene Fodor

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” — Pat Conroy

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

“Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.” – Eudora Welty

“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So … get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“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

“Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.” – L.E. Landon

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

“To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” – Charles Horton Cooley

“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

“To me travel is a triple delight: anticipation, performance and recollection.” – Ilka Chase

“Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

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

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” – Rick Ridgeway

“Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” – Andrew Zimmern

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BEST TRAVEL QUOTES: 15 Motivational Travel Quotes (with Photos!)

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BEST TRAVEL QUOTES: 15 Motivational Travel Quotes

Everything the world holds for us is just awe-inspiring breathtaking . 

It is amazing beyond human comprehension and no words can do justice to it, but just experiencing it through your own eyes can . 

I took out 15 of my personal favorite travel quotes , combined with inspirational travel photos, taken by me, to put you in a travel mood.  Let them be a source of inspiration and motivation .

1. “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

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

3. “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

4. “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

5. “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” - Francis Bacon

6. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” - Mohammed

7. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

8.“Travel is to spread your life all over the world.” - Taxi Drive Wisdom

9. "The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams." - Oprah Winfrey

 10. “There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.” - William Butler Yeats

11. "I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world." - Mary Anne Radmacher

12. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”- Neale Donald Walsch

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

14. "No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." - Lin Yutang

15. "May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home." - Trenton Lee Stewart

Feeling motivated and excited?! Awesome! I recommend you check out “ How to Travel Cheaper .” it may give you extra tips on your next journey! Still struggling with a feeling of uncertainty in taking a step towards traveling? 

Read “ The Fear to Travel Alone ” – it will give you more insights on traveling and give you that much-needed comfort and encouragement in taking the step to explore the world. Definitely, check it out!

To me, I can say, there is no greater thing to do in life than travel. I can only encourage people to do the same, to explore and to discover what lies out there waiting to be discovered and experienced first-hand.

Traveling allows you to explore the world around you, but it also gives you a deep and profound understanding of yourself .

Question about this article: Which one of the motivational travel quotes did you like the most?

What is your favorite travel quote? Let us know in the comment section below!

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120 Travel Quotes to inspire you for travelling across the world

Travelling is crucial part of life as it changes your perception towards life helps you to re-discover yourself. It is like food for thought to your brain. Travel isn’t just about fun and exhilaration. A significant amount of scientific research suggests that exploring a new place can do wonders to your emotional and mental health . Travelling is beneficial for your physical health is a well known fact. Travelling and exploring new places also enhances your creativity, happiness and satisfaction. It strengthens your bond in different relationships . Keeping in mind so many benefits of travel, I have curated my favorite travel quotes which will inspire you to travel too.

Travel Quotes to inspire you

• “When you travel alone, you get the opportunity to meet yourself.” ~ Invajy

• “Traveling allows you to explore different versions of yourself.” ~ Invajy

• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ~ Lau Tzu

• “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” ~ Eugene Fodor

• “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” ~ Wallace Stevens

• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself” ~ David Mitchell

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

• “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” ~ Rachel Wolchin

• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” ~ Lao Tzu

• “A ship is always safe a shore but that is not what it’s built for.” ~  Albert Einstein

Best Travel Quotes

• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~  Helen Keller

• “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change .” ~ Charles Horton Cooley
• “Take only memories , leave only footprints .” ~ Chief Seattle
• “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
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ Dalai Lama
• “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” ~ Prophet Muhammad
• “Live to travel. Travel to live.” ~ Earth Trekkers
• “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” ~ Lin Yutang
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley
• “The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life” ~ Agnus Ripplier

Inspirational Travel Quotes

• “Solo Travelling fulfils the need for solitude.” ~ Invajy
• “The goal is to die with memories not dreams” ~ Anonymous
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” ~ Ibn Battuta
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” ~ Robert Frost
• “Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho
• “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ~ Earnest Hemmingway
• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” ~ Stephen Covey
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” ~ J.R.R Tolkien

Traveling quotes

• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” ~ Paul Theroux
• “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times” ~ Anonymous
• “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.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
• “A journey is like marriage . The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” ~ John Steinbeck
• “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” ~ Jim Rohn
• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc
• “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
• “Sometimes one day in a different place gives you more than ten years of life at home.” ~ Anatole France
• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cahill
• ”Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” ~ Anonymous

Quotes about Travelling

• “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” ~ Sir Richard Burton
• “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
• “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
• “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” ~ Oscar Wilde
• “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry” ~ Jack Kerouac
• “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ~ Michael Palin
• “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” ~ Edith Wharton
• “The journey itself is my home.” ~ Matsuo Basho
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” ~ Anonymous

Short Travel Quotes

• “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 Anderson
• “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire .” ~ Jennifer Lee
• “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Tony Robbins
• “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” ~ Dutch Proverb
• “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
• “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
• “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” ~ Oscar Wilde
• “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux
• “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” ~ Peter Hoeg
• “For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.” ~ Aldous Huxley

Travel Quotes

• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust
• “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler
• “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.” ~ Charlotte Erikkson
• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like the people or hate them than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain
• “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ~ George A. Moore
• “Focus on the journey, not the destination, joy is found not in finishing the activity, but in doing.” ~ Greg Anderson
• “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” ~ Paul Theroux
• “Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” ~ Matthew Karsten
• “Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” ~ Pat Conroy
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ~ Henry Miller
• “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
• “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone , it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” ~ Suzy Strutner
• “Half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” ~ Ray Bradbury
• “Some journeys can be only traveled alone.” ~ Ken Poirot
• “A person susceptible to wanderlust is not so much committed to movement as committed to transformation .” ~ Pico Iyer
• “I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” ~ Margaret Storm Jameson
• “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
• “I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been to before.” ~ Anonymous
• “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” ~ David McCullough Jr.
• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

Famous Travel Quotes

• “Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac
• “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then.” ~ William Least Heat Moon
• “Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ~ Rumi
• “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” ~ Anais Nin
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” ~ Martin Buber
• “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” ~ Izaak Walton
• “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else” ~ Lawrence Block
• “So much of who we are is where we have been.” ~ William Langewiesche
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” ~ Miriam Beard
• “The journey not the arrival matters.” ~ T.S. Eliot
• “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” ~ Seneca
• “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
• “Travel: the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
• “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage .” ~ Paulo Coelho

Quotes about Travel

• “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~ Lewis Carroll
• “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” ~ Henry Rollins
• “Travel is my therapy.” ~ Anonymous
• “We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone” ~ Katie Thurmes
• “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right” ~ Tony Robbins
• “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves” ~ Pico Iyer
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer” ~ Anonymous
• “A change of latitude would help my attitude.” ~ Anonymous
• “Adventure is our there.” ~ Charles Muntz
• “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” ~ Anonymous
• “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” ~ Anna Quindlen
• “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” ~ Sir Richard Burton
• “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” ~ Jack Kerouac
• ”Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” ~ Thomas Fuller
• “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” ~ Irving Wallace
• “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad” ~ George Bernard Shaw
• “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life” ~ Dolly Parton
• “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting” ~ Clint Borgen
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” ~ Shirley MacLaine

I hope you’ve enjoyed these awesome travel quotes and you’re feeling inspired and full of excitement after reading them! So, what are you waiting for? Start planning for your next travel destination.

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These travel quotes truly capture the essence of wanderlust and adventure! Each word resonates with my desire to explore the world and create unforgettable memories. They ignite a spark within me, reminding me of the transformative power of travel. These quotes are a constant source of inspiration for my next journey.

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The Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department (BHSD) offers County residents a wide range of mental health and addiction treatment services to meet your behavioral health needs. Available mental health services include psychiatric emergency/crisis, inpatient, and outpatient care. Your eligibility for County mental health programs is based on your behavioral health needs. You can learn about your eligibility for different services by calling the Behavioral Health Call Center at 1-800-704-0900 .

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• Emergency Suicide Support and Suicide Prevention Services
• Emergency Psychiatric Services (EPS)
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Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services (BHSD) Call Center: 1-800-704-0900

The BHSD Call Center is the centralized entry point for those seeking services from Santa Clara County Behavioral Health. People looking for mental health and/or substance use treatment can call this number for:

• Referrals to mental health or substance use treatment services.  (Referrals are offered to individuals of all ages)
• General information about BHSD services.  (Behavioral Health services are offered to Santa Clara County residents who receive Medi-Cal or Medicare benefits, or have no insurance.)
• To make a grievance or appeal a filing.
• Peer guidance for wellness and connection to resources.

The County BHSD Call Center is free and available 24/7 in more than 200 languages. Trained and licensed mental health and substance use treatment professionals answer all calls.

Call  1-800-704-0900 and choose:

Option #1  for  Urgent Mental Health Services, Mobile Crisis Response Team , TRUST Team, or Suicide Prevention Hotline (same as 988)

Option #2  for   Referral to Mental Health/Substance Use Services

Option #3  for   Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT)

Option #4  for   General Mental Health Information   (via the Behavioral Health Services Navigator Program)

Option #5  for   Complaint/Grievance/Appeal

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Note: Below are listed the major County BHSD psychiatric services. For a complete list of available County behavioral health programs and services, see the Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services web page .

1. Emergency Suicide Support and Suicide Prevention Services

Suicide & Crisis Services

Crisis and Suicide Prevention Lifeline 24/7: Dial 9-8-8    ( People with area codes other than 408, 650, and 669 should dial 800-704-0900 and press 1 f or these services)

​​ Crisis Text Line 24/7: Text RENEW to 741741 Crisis Text Line en español 24/7: Envía un mensaje de texto con la palabra COMUNIDAD al 741741

The Santa Clara County Crisis & Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a 24-hour, toll-free confidential hotline available 7 days a week for phone intervention and emotional support to individuals in a mental health crisis. Highly trained volunteer crisis counselors assist people who are feeling suicidal, experiencing distress, or just need to talk with someone who will listen. Multi-lingual counselors are available.

Santa Clara County Crisis & Suicide Prevention offers the following Suicide Prevention and Crisis Trainings :

• QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) Online Suicide Prevention Course – a FREE one-hour online training available to anyone 18 years of age or older who lives or works in Santa Clara County. Learn the signs of suicide, and what to do to help prevent this most preventable of deaths.
• LivingWorks Start – In just 90 minutes online, LivingWorks Start teaches trainees to recognize when someone is thinking about suicide and connect them to help and support.
• Be Sensitive Be Brave (Suicide Prevention) – 2-hour online course available to anyone18 years of age or older who lives or works in Santa Clara County. Learn to define suicide and identify warning signs. Practice how to ask about suicide with compassion and how to connect individuals with supportive resources.
• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST ) – a highly interactive, FREE, practical, practice-oriented workshop on suicide intervention, especially useful to people working in the mental health field.
• Suicide 201 – (for mental health professionals and licensed clinicians) Apply recent advances in clinical management through culturally competent suicide practice. Learn to address suicide risk, safety plan, case conceptualize and treatment plan for rmanaging suicide risk in diverse populations.
• Be Sensitive Be Brave (Mental Health ) – 2-hour online course available to anyone18 years of age or older who lives or works in Santa Clara County. Learn the basics of mental health including definitions, coping with stress, and when it’s important to seek help, combating stigma and how to get help in our County.
• Kognito – For educators and school staff. Engage in virtual role-play simulator modules focused on increasing comfort and competency in managing critical conversations with youth exhibiting signs of psychological distress.

2. Emergency Psychiatric Services (EPS)

871 Enborg Lane San Jose, CA 95128 Phone: 1 (408) 885-6100 Fax: (408) 885-6117 Hours: Open 24-hours, 7 days a week

3. Community Mobile Response Teams

• Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS) – (See *Note above). Services for children and adults ages 4 – 21. Provides 24-hour in-person intervention or phone support to children, youth and young adults in Santa Clara County who are in acute psychological/emotional crisis. Post Crisis Stabilization services also offer referrals to link people to ongoing mental health services.
• Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT) – (see *Note above). Services for adults 18+. MCRT screens and assesses mental health crisis situations over the phone. They may provide immediate in-person response at locations throughout the county to individuals in crisis who exhibit mental health symptoms, may be suicidal or at-risk and need an evaluation for psychiatric hospitalization. Teams include Master’s level clinicians with training and expertise in crisis response. Mobile Crisis Response Teams work closely with law enforcement, crisis hotlines, the community and family members.
• Trusted Response Urgent Support Team (TRUST) – (see *Note above). Services for adults 18+. The TRUST team is a non -law enforcement mobile crisis response team that works closely with crisis hotlines, the community and family members to provide peer-based intervention and follow up services. TRUST onsite field teams can be dispatched to San Jose, Gilroy, or North County to assess for behavioral and medical needs, deliver de-escalation and intervention services to stabilize the situation, or provide transportation to another community service for stabilization when needed. The TRUST onsite field team includes a Crisis Intervention Specialist, First Aid Professional, and a Peer Support Specialist with training and expertise in de-escalation, crisis intervention, and stabilization.
• Psychiatric Emergency Response Teams (PERT) – Services for adults 18+. (L ocal police agencies determine whether PERT is needed for 911 calls.)  PERT teams are dedicated two-person units (a law officer and a licensed mental health clinician) who respond to 911 calls requiring a rapid mental health crisis response with law enforcement presence. PERT clinicians are trained to work with law enforcement, conduct mental health evaluations, and assist in determining outcomes that support individuals’ needs and safety. PERT units receive Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) and Hostage/Crisis Negotiation training.
• In-Home Outreach Team – Services for adults 18+ with Medi-Cal or no insurance. ( Requires referral from County Behavioral Health Services) I-HOT provides brief clinical support and linkage to behavioral health services to residents of Santa Clara County identified as having multiple contacts with Emergency Psychiatric Services, Emergency Rooms, Behavioral Health Urgent Care, the Criminal Justice System, and/or Mobile Crisis Response Team within the span of a year.

4. Behavioral Health Urgent Care

2221 Enborg Lane San Jose, CA 95128 Phone: 1 (408) 885-7855 Hours: Daily, 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. After Hours: 7:00 p.m.​ – 8:00 a.m. use EPS rear entrance for psychiatric emergency services. Languages Spoken: English, Farsi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Vietnamese  ( Other languages can be made available as needed.)

5. Substance Use Services

Call  1-800-704-0900 and choose option 2 .  Ask for Substance Use Services Hours: 24-hours, 7 days a week Substance Use Treatment Services   Substance use treatment services are provided to adult and older adults that have substance use and mental health needs. Those who require addiction treatment services will receive a screening and referral to the most appropriate program.  Fees are based on clients’ ability to pay for services. Medi-Cal and private insurance are also accepted.

6. Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Hospitalization

Inpatient psychiatric hospitalization is available for individuals requiring psychiatric stabilization for mental health behavior or symptoms assessed as dangerous to self , to others, or gravely disabled and require 24-hour care in a secure and therapeutic setting. These individuals may have symptoms of anxiety, depression, or mania, or may be experiencing altered thought processes. Depending upon available openings, persons may be hospitalized at either the County’s acute psychiatric facility (Barbara Arons Pavilion – see details below), or at a county-contracted inpatient hospital.

Barbara Arons Pavilion, Valley Medical Center 820 Enborg Court San Jose, CA 95128 ​ Phone: 1 (408) 885-6140 Fax: (408) 885-6180 Visiting Hours: M – F, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Sat. – Sun. and holidays: 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

7. Behavioral Health Adult and Older Adult Outpatient Support

The Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department offers a wide range of behavioral health services to ensure that our residents of Santa Clara County have access to help when they need it. The Behavioral Health Services Department contracts with various community-based organizations that provide outpatient support for adults, older adults, adolescents, children, and families. To request these services, contact the County BHSD call center at 1-800-704-0900, option 2. To view a list of outpatient programs sorted by County regions (North, South, Central and West), go to the County’s Outpatient Support Services web page .

8. Mental Health Contract Agencies

In Santa Clara County, state and county-funded mental health and social services are provided either directly by the County, or by non-profit agencies who contract with the County. Referrals to these agencies for county funded services are made by the Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department and clients must be on Medi-Cal. Contact the County BHSD call center at 1-800-704-0900, option 2  for more information.

Full Service Partnerships (FSPs) are the means by which California funds and California counties provide mental health services. The FSP model employs a “whatever it takes” recovery approach and offers a range of services, including intensive therapy, case management, rehabilitation, and medication support for clients. In Santa Clara County, FSP services may be provided directly by the County or by non-profit agencies who contract with the County. Multi-disciplinary FSP “Service Teams” consist of doctors, psychiatrists, therapists, case managers, and others who help coordinate and customize mental health care for each client. All assignments to FSPs are made by the Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services Department, and clients must be on Medi-Cal. Contact the County BHSD call center at 1-800-704-0900, option 2 for more information.

9. Self-Help Centers

Operated by and for mental health consumers, the Santa Clara County Self-Help Centers offer peer-based support, activities and information for those dealing with mental illness. Services are offered at the Zephyr Central County Self-Help Center in downtown San Jose, and the Esperanza South County Self-Help Center in Gilroy. (See below for location-specific information).  Available services include:

• Mental health and other resource information
• Peer-supported events and social activities
• Peer-facilitated support groups
• WRAP ® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan ® ) groups
• One-on-one peer support
• Self-Help for Transitional Aged Youth ​​ (TAY) 18 – 25 yrs.
• Computer Workshops and Basic Computer Functions Classes

Zephyr Central County Self-Help Center

Phone:  408-792-2140 1075 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose 1st floor, enter at rear of building Hours:   Mondays  1:00 – 4:00 pm,  Tuesday – Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Esperanza Self-Help Center

Phone: 408-852-2460 1235 1st St., Gilroy 95029 Located at the South County Mental Health Clinic Hours: Friday 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

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• “ Ableist ideas and beliefs affect people with disabilities in all aspects of life , including employment, healthcare, education, housing, transportation, etc. These ideas and beliefs create systems that discriminate and oppress people with disabilities.” —Theo W. Braddy is paralyzed from the neck down. He is executive director of The National Council on Independent Living .
• “Autism can be an incredibly debilitating disability— there’s an extremely high prevalence of loneliness in the autism community. Individuals with autism die 16 years younger than the average human. 85% of college educated autistics are unemployed. I like to say that with autism I can excel at the extraordinary, but I can really struggle with the simple .”— Russell Lehmann , 33, has autism, OCD, depression and anxiety. He is a speaker, poet and activist.
• “ People with disabilities are just as worthy as those without disabilities to live happy, productive lives.” — Sydney Badeau, 30, has dyspraxia, a nonverbal learning disorder and a sensory processing disorder. She is an advocacy and outreach specialist at The Arc Wisconsin .
• “ Recognizing the importance of accessibility and inclusivity is vital . For example, having ramps and wider doorways not only benefits wheelchair users but also individuals with mild cerebral palsy, who may experience difficulty with coordination or movement on one side of their body. This promotes equality and empathy for everyone. —Ashley Glears, 30, has cerebral palsy with right hemiplegia. She is a chapter associate at The Arc of the United States.
• “It’s important to understand that disability is a natural part of the human experience and that people with disabilities deserve equal rights, opportunities, and respect. I wish people outside the disability community understood the significance of inclusive practices and the value of diverse perspectives in all aspects of life. ” —Dr. Yvette Pegues, Ed.D., 45, has a traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injuries. She is D&I Executive & Chief Diversity Officer at Your Invisible Disability Group.
• “ People with disabilities are individually different from each other . We have different goals and views. We have different approaches to life. We are just human beings who want equal access to reach our different goals.” — Sean Pevsner, 53, has cerebral palsy. He is a law firm partner with Whitburn & Pevsner, PLLC .

What do you wish people outside the disability community would stop doing and/or saying?

• “ I wish they would stop saying I am amazing or inspiring when I do ordinary things. ” — Arielle Silverman
• “ Stop asking Deaf people if we can read your lips. Communication is the responsibility of all parties in a conversation . Asking the Deaf person to read your lips places all the responsibility for communicating on the Deaf person. ” —Sheryl Emery
• “ Stop saying people with disabilities are a vulnerable population. People with disabilities are not weak and fragile - this characterization does more harm than good. ” — Theo W. Braddy
• “I wish people would refrain from making assumptions or judgments about individuals with disabilities based solely on their appearance or perceived limitations. It's important to approach each person with respect, understanding, and open-mindedness.” — Ashley Glears
• “I wish people would stop constantly infantilizing adults with disabilities , especially those who are nonspeaking or minimally speaking.” —Elizabeth "Lizzy" Graham, 34, has Asperger’s/Autism, ADHD, Anxiety with OCD tendencies, eczema and obstructive sleep apnea. She is service coordinator for Medicaid HCBS Waiver Services at The Arc of Prince George's County.
• "I wish people would stop using derogatory terms about people with disabilities and assuming that having a disability means you can't do something. For example, I enjoy 20+ adapted sports and my activity is a form of activism." — Dr. Yvette Pegues
• “People should stop automatically assuming that we are brave for dealing with our disabilities. People should stop considering us vulnerable people who cannot work and contribute to our community.” — Sean Pevsner
• “I wish they would stop making fun of and looking down on people with disabilities. I also wish they would stop treating people with disabilities like children . Often time, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are treated like children. They’re not - they’re adults.” — Melody Cooper, 54, has cerebral palsy and intellectual disability. She is self-advocate specialist at The Arc of Indiana .
• “One thing that I wish people would stop assuming is that people who experience disability are living off the government . This is not the case at all. We need the assistance to live a normal life like everyone else in the world and we are trying to make something for ourselves with the support we have provided to us.” — Ric Nelson, 40, has cerebral palsy. He is an executive director of Peer Power .

What's a misconception people have about you and your abilities?

• “ That I am lacking something or 'living in darkness .' Or that I am perpetually afraid of the world around me just because I can’t see it. My life experience is rich with many other sensations, thoughts and emotions that have nothing to do with vision or lack thereof. ” — Arielle Silverman
• “ There are Deaf people in almost every profession. Don’t assume because a person cannot hear that they are incapable. Not everyone lip reads and we do not have better sight to make up for not being able to hear . We enjoy music, we drive. The biggest barriers we face are attitudes.” —Sheryl Emery
• “ The biggest misconception is they're underestimating me and the 61 million others like me - this comes from a long history of devaluing people like me.” —Theo W. Braddy
• “ Society has taught me from a young age that I can’t show my autism in public . So, a lot of my struggles are in my house, alone. A lot of the struggle is behind the scenes.” — Russell Lehmann
• “One big misconception is that I am not able to follow directions, learn, or be employable . I want to work, so I can be independent and get my own apartment.” —Marcus Stewart, 23, has Down Syndrome.
• “That not everyone with a disability presents in the same way. Some may struggle with something while others may not, and each person may need different or unique accommodations.” — Sydney Badeau

• “One common misconception people have about me and my abilities is assuming that I'm only capable of simple tasks or responses, when in reality, I'm capable of understanding complex concepts and engaging in meaningful conversations across a wide range of topics.” — Ashley Glears
• “I operate at the intersections of a woman of color with visible and non-visible disabilities, so I encounter many layers of misconceptions in my life. Nevertheless, I’m a proud wife, mom, engineer, educator, and advocate. My daily fight for the cessation of stereotypes and stigmatizing language surrounding disability is not for me, but others without the voice to fight for themselves. I wish people understood the innovative contributions that disabled people bring to communities and society .” —Dr. Yvette Pegues
• “ People have the misconception that I cannot represent people in cases . They assume incorrectly that since I have a speech impairment, I cannot argue for my clients’ best interest. It is very tiring to have to constantly prove myself.” — Sean Pevsner
• “People have thought that I would never be anything or do anything, that I don’t know what’s going on in the world. Having an intellectual disability does not mean you’re dumb . They work harder than most just to do things others take for granted. They may need help with certain things, but don’t we all?” — Melody Cooper

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Can you boost your health by playing in the dirt?

Spending time outdoors exposes individuals to soil bacteria, which is linked to physical and mental health benefits.

By Alyssa Bradford

Frequent exposure to dirt has long been linked to health benefits, like lower rates of Crohn’s disease , asthma and allergies . Recent research highlights the role of soil bacteria in reducing inflammation and improving mental health , according to The New York Times .

Per Healthline , encouraging children to play in the mud offers numerous benefits beyond just fun and creativity. These activities expose them to germs, potentially boosting their immune system, reducing the likelihood of allergies later in life and fostering memorable experiences.

How to spend more time in the dirt

Christopher A. Lowry, University of Colorado Boulder’s professor of integrative physiology, told The New York Times , “We’re breathing in a tremendous amount of microbial diversity” just by being out in nature.

From a wide range of getting dirty to staying clean, here are ways to spend time in nature and possibly receive some health benefits along the way.

Garden or pick plants

Get your hands dirty by starting a garden by your home. Whether it be fruits, vegetables, flowers or herbs, pick something that you would enjoy seeing or eating.

Even without a garden, plant picking — whether for apples, berries or other seasonal delights — provides a similar opportunity to connect with the soil.

Per Mayo Clinic , gardening may also allow individuals to get more exercise, have an improved diet, reduce stress and improve mental health.

Go on a hike

Whether on a short stroll or a multiday trek, hiking allows individuals to get close to dirt and nature without the actual need to get dirty. It serves as a great form of exercise and a change of scenery.

According to the National Park Service , hiking is also proven to:

• Build strong muscles and bones.
• Improve your sense of balance.
• Improve your heart health.
• Decrease the risk of certain respiratory problems.
• Reduce stress.
• Calm anxiety.
• Decrease the risk of depression.
• Strengthen relationships.

Have a picnic outside

Gather your friends or family for an outdoor picnic and enjoy the fresh air! Find a nearby park or even sit in the backyard on a blanket. Unless you’re wanting to choose all the food yourself, consider making the picnic a potluck, with everyone suggesting or bringing their own foods to share.

Try bringing outdoor or board games to make the picnic a more memorable experience while helping everyone spend more time outside.

Per Healthline , spending time outdoors, such as having a picnic, will also help with:

• Depression symptoms.
• Motivation to exercise.
• Mental restoration.
• Immune function.

Need more ideas?

If none of those suggestion speak to you, consider looking at the list below to find something you, or your family, might like to enjoy.

• Build a sandcastle at the beach.
• Play in a mud puddle after the rain.
• Start a compost pile.
• Dig for worms for fishing.
• Create nature art using dirt, leaves and other natural materials.
• Participate in a community clean-up effort.
• Build a bonfire and roast marshmallows.
• Take a yoga class outdoors.
• Go camping.
• Go on a nature scavenger hunt.
• Collect rocks and minerals.
• Go geocaching.
• Practice mindfulness meditation in nature.
• Take a nature photography walk.
• Create a fairy garden.
• Try birdwatching.
• Build a fort out of branches and sticks.
• Have a family game night outdoors.
• Plant a tree.
• Go on a wildflower walk.
• Volunteer for a trail maintenance project.
• Build a bird feeder.
• Start a nature club with friends.
• Have a bonfire cookout.
• Take a horseback riding lesson.
• Play frisbee or catch in the park.
• Try outdoor rock climbing.
• Set up a telescope and stargaze.
• Go for a bike ride on dirt trails.
• Go on a mud run.
• Build a miniature golf course in your backyard.
• Have a tree climbing adventure.
• Take a survival skills workshop and use the skills you’ve learned.
• Try outdoor painting or sketching.
• Go on a fossil dig.
• Set up a tent in your backyard and have a backyard campout.
• Go out after dark and tell spooky stories.
• Take a fishing trip.
• Try outdoor cooking with a camp stove or dutch oven.
• Start a collection of interesting rocks and fossils.
• Go on a bug hunt.
• Try forest bathing.
• Build a miniature boat and float it down a creek.
• Try foraging for wild edible plants.
• Set up a hammock and relax in the shade.
• Have a leaf collecting contest.
• Take a nature photography class.
• Try wildlife tracking.
• Have a movie night under the stars.
• Try outdoor knitting or crocheting.
• Have a leaf pressing activity.
• Have a campfire sing-along.
• Try outdoor archery.
• Build a bug hotel for beneficial insects.
• Try outdoor watercolor painting.
• Set up a wildlife observation blind and observe animals in their natural habitat.
• Have a plant identification challenge.
• Set up a nature-based science experiment.
• Try outdoor kite making and flying.
• Set up a wildlife habitat in your backyard.

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Women at work: a deloitte study highlights women’s workplace struggles.

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Workplace wellness for women is in need of a reinvention.

Today's fast-paced business culture glamorizes success without acknowledging the hidden costs. While leadership and building a successful career requires sacrifice, these burdens can vary significantly depending on gender. A recent Deloitte report highlighted the nuanced challenges women face in the workplace beyond the well-known gender pay gap.

Deloitte's Women at Work: A Global Outlook report, now in its fourth year, highlights the critical issues affecting women's careers. While the gender pay gap remains a pressing issue, the survey of 5,000 women across ten countries highlighted three often overlooked areas of concern: mental health, physical pain, and safety in the workplace and during travel.

Creating an Organizational Shift

Bio-individuality is a concept used in health and wellness to indicate that each person has a unique biological makeup. What works for one person in terms of diet and exercise may not necessarily work for another. Just as an individual has a unique biological constitution, organizations must recognize and address their team members' diverse needs, especially regarding women.

Creating an organization that adheres to a bio-individualized philosophy in its approach to wellness and culture could benefit talent retention and recruitment , employee engagement , productivity, and legal and ethical considerations. Here are three ways to incorporate organizational bio-individuality into your culture:

Expand The Approach To Mental Health

With 48% of women in the study stating that they are concerned or very concerned about their mental health, along with half of women expressing their stress levels are higher compared to a year ago, organizations need to move beyond generic wellness initiatives. Mental health is a potential financial tsunami, forecast to reach an unfathomable $6 trillion in global expenditures by 2030, according to a joint study by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard School of Public Health.

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Acknowledging and understanding the nuanced factors contributing to stress, such as work environment, ageism, and other gender-specific challenges, is essential. Mental health apps and meditation classes are valuable but just the tip of the iceberg. Organizations must go deeper than the surface level to identify and address the root causes of the various workplace mental health stressors .

Don't Overlook The Stages of Life

In the Deloitte report, around 25% of women were dealing with health issues related to menstruation, fertility, or menopause. And 40% of women experiencing high menstrual pain or menopausal pain worked through it. Menopausal symptoms ranging from brain fog to insomnia to hot flashes are issues that affect roughly 25% of the U.S. working population . With that said a large percentage of women kept these challenges hidden, and to no surprise, even fewer women felt comfortable discussing these challenges compared to a year ago.

With a high percentage of women in the workplace dealing with gender-specific challenges on top of fertility rates dropping to their lowest in a century, it's beneficial for organizations to recognize the evolving needs of women's health. Providing tailored resources and support for these challenges through specific leaves of absence, focus groups, and other actionable steps can help create a supportive and high-performing environment.

Reimagine Travel and Workplace Safety

Business travel is back in full effect, with both men and women jet-setting across the globe. However, safety concerns, particularly during business travel , are significant for women. In the Deloitte study, almost half of the women worried about their safety at work or while traveling. Key actions include improving corporate travel wellness programs and policies by:

• Providing destination-specific research and intel.
• Placing team members in top-notch hotels.
• Offering readily available emergency support services.
• Utilizing dedicated car services instead of rideshare apps to enhance security.

While these statistics and the entire report may seem daunting, they nevertheless present themselves as an opportunity for forward-thinking CEOs and organizations to differentiate themselves by acknowledging (and taking action toward) the unique health challenges faced by women in the workplace.

By embracing a bio-individualized workforce culture, organizations can attract and retain the best people and, ultimately, create their unique advantage and thus stand out in the competitive business world.

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NY Hypnotherapy To Reduce Social Anxiety, Mental Health Treatment Expanded

NY Health Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy (646-537-1713) highlights the role of hypnosis in mental health treatments as part of its expanded approach to addressing social anxiety in clients.

New York, United States - April 23, 2024 —

The clinic's therapists, Rebecca Hoffenberg, Psy.D, Karolina Pekala, Psy.D, Demi Maglio, Psy.D, Laura Faiwiszewski, Psy.D, and Irada Yunusova, Psy.D now employ an integrative wellness approach to managing and reducing social anxiety in clients. The mental health professionals will develop a custom treatment plan that combines mindfulness, psychoanalysis, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), and hypnosis to address the complexities of the condition.

More details can be found at https://www.nyhealthhypnosis.com/specialties/anxiety-stress-fear-phobia

NY Health Hypnosis explains that anxiety may present both somatically and cognitively, with patients often experiencing symptoms ranging from a racing heart and sweaty palms to intrusive thoughts that something bad is going to happen. As part of their holistic approach, the therapists help their clients address all these factors in tailored mental health sessions to ensure longer-lasting recovery.

Most notably, hypnosis plays a significant role in creating a well-rounded treatment plan for social anxiety. Hypnosis may offer therapeutic benefits for clients who regularly experience panic attacks and become overwhelmed during social gatherings. Through hypnotherapy, individuals can identify the root causes of their fears and corresponding behaviors, and from there, challenge these irrational beliefs.

The team also highlights research that confirms the benefits of using hypnosis in treating individuals with anxiety. Going beyond traditional mental health treatments, hypnosis supports clients in a relaxed and reflective state. It is in this state that they learn various techniques to understand, accept, and cope with their fears - including social anxiety.

About NY Health Hypnosis

NY Health Hypnosis specializes in integrative therapy, incorporating psychoanalysis, mindfulness, Buddhist theories, and hypnosis to promote meaningful change in the lives of its clients. The team works with clients reporting a wide range of conditions, including emotional eating, confidence and motivation, and ADHD, among others.

A spokesperson for the team says, "While hypnosis alone cannot adequately treat anxiety disorders, the addition of hypnosis to the therapeutic treatment of anxiety can have a profound impact on helping a person mitigate and cope with their anxiety. We combine hypnotic techniques with traditional therapy modalities to address the troubling symptoms associated with anxiety and panic."

Interested parties can find more information by visiting https://www.nyhealthhypnosis.com/specialties/anxiety-stress-fear-phobia

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