Quotes about Personal Growth

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

In life you only have to travel 6 inches. That is the distance from your mind to your heart.

The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).

Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.

One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

When the days are too short, chances are you are living at your best.

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

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Cover the earth, before it covers you.

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

The more you travel, the better you get at it.

It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?

I still believe that you truly find yourself not in travel, but in other human souls.

I was just doing it for fun. I was in college recording music as a joke, so I really didn't think that a career was feasible - being able to travel.