Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer

Путешествия от А до Я

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

— St. Augustine

— Святой Августин

«Only two things we will regret on deathbed – that we are a little loved and little traveled.»

— Mark Twain

— Марк Твен

«Travel as the greatest science and serious science helps us to rediscover ourselves.»

— Albert Camus

«Путешествие как самая великая и серьезная наука помогает нам вновь обрести себя.»

— Альберт Камю

«Why do you visit the same place if there are so many unexplored corners on the Earth?!»

— Marc Levy

«С какой стати посещать одно и то же место, когда в мире еще столько неизведанных уголков?!»

— Марк Леви

«Travel is the only thing you buy, that makes you richer.»

«A little step may be the beginning of a great journey!»

«Маленький шажок может стать началом большого путешествия!»

«I don’t know where I’m going, but I promise it won’t be boring!»

«Я не знаю, куда я собираюсь, но я обещаю, что это будет нескучно!»

«We can’t choose where we come from but we can choose where we go from there.»

«Мы не можем изменить, откуда мы пришли, но можем выбрать, куда мы оттуда направимся.»

“ Travel is the only thing you buy that can make you richer ”

When I was younger I desperately wanted to live in another country. To my family and friends this notion seemed a bit peculiar.

Most people start to think about moving in their early 20s…I was thinking about it when I was 10 years old.

My experiences changed me and made me the person I am today. Because travel is the only thing that will make you richer.

1. You will become more independent

2. You will become stronger (mentally)

When I travel alone I feel like nothing is going to break me. I am invincible. I have witnessed many peculiar situations. I even saved somebody’s life. When you travel, you will not escape many endurances that life will offer. However, the reward will be greater.

3. You will become more open minded

Different cultures, languages and new ways of doing things will teach you to have an open mind. It will teach you acceptance and respect. It will teach you to listen more and not to render judgements too easily.

4. You will have friends all over the world

That was a big dream of mine when I was growing up- to have friends all over the world. You have no idea how kind people can be, how often people will be willing to help you. I am saddened by todays’ news stories, we only share bad news. There are many great and wonderful acts of kindness (often enormous kindness) that should have been told. Anyway, if you travel you will make friends all over the world.

5. You will become more knowledgable

6. You will become a better human being

You will become a better human being in every sense of the word. Trust me.

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10 Reasons Traveling Is The Only Thing You Buy That Makes You Richer

You might not own the most expensive car in the world, nor the biggest house on earth. But one thing is for sure your dreams are bigger than those things. “Traveling is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. “ Yes and yes! I agree. I know you have read this line for so many times now on so many blog posts, on your Facebook news feed, on your RSS. Well, let me try to explain it further by giving some 10 good reasons why that such line exists.

1. You cannot buy memories. During your first plane ride, I know you can still remember how your heart pounds when the plane is about to take-off. A simple memory like this is something you can’t buy, the feeling, the sweaty palms, the nausea you’ve felt, the wonderful “I-feel-like-flying” you experience; all of these cannot buy with money.

2. You grow as a person. When you are totally pissed and tired from work, the first thing you have in mind is to take some time-off, not for the sake of the company that you are working with, but for yourself. You go on a vacation and unplug yourself from the real world; while having a beer on your right hand and a book on your left while watching the ocean glistening right before your eyes, your mind do all those realizations about life, about work, about everything in life. And when you get back, you become a different person, and most of all you grow as an existing human being.

3. It restores your belief in humanity. When you travel alone, there comes to a point that you really cannot get on how to read your map or in-short you are LOST. Yes, when you break the good news to your family that you have decided to take that trip of a lifetime, the usual thing that you will hear from them is “Traveling… Alone? Are you out of your mind? Isn’t that scary?”. Everyone is scared and you are excited, how peculiar feeling is that? But you still go on and do it. Then, on your journey you will meet people who will help you get the next cab, who will tell you how to go the substation, who will try to help you without any motives to harm you. You will learn how to trust bit by bit.

4. It challenges you. The only thing on how you conquer your fear is to face them. No one will push you to your own limits except yourself. It allows you to dive into a whole new perspective in life after you have conquered your fear. You will never know your boundaries until you have reached it, but it doesn’t stop there. Life has no boundaries. So keep on pushing yourself to the limit!

5. It gives you a taste of the world. Different sides of the world, different continents, and different people. It allows you to embrace how the locals live, how they live it to the fullest! Can you just imagine how your favorite pasta was made? How its made to perfection? How your favorite rice noodles was made? When you go in depth on what’s behind all of these, it lets you embrace the beauty of life, the beauty of the world! You understand how they do it, and why they do it. You become part of them, you see things through their eyes!

6. You gain self-confidence. If you are struggling with your self-confidence, I advise you to travel alone. Aside from facing your fears, you allow yourself to be yourself, to talk to a complete stranger, to give yourself a boost of self-confidence. It might scare you at first, but believe me, it works! You will come back home braver and much more different in a good way than you were before.

7. You see a whole new horizon. Everything becomes a routine that we all try to break. When you travel, your perspective becomes broader, you embrace the new horizons of life. It gives you an idea how lucky you are in this world, from the people you meet and from the things you see. The best advice you can get is from a stranger; it strikes you like a lightning and one day you wake up and have decided to change the old you into a version 2.0.

8. You learn to trust yourself. Becoming true to yourself is one of the spice in the pillars of success. You cannot buy trust, you gain it. And by traveling, trusting yourself is one of the hardest battle you will ever encounter. You will meet people who won’t be as good as you have thought, who will frustrate you, who will break you. But the bits and pieces of those that you have experienced will let you learn how to trust yourself. That in the end, you will realize that you can only “love many and trust a few”.

9. It gives you happiness. Years back, only rich people can afford to travel. They have these private jets and having a toast first class up in the sky, we can’t blame rich people if those luxurious things makes them happy. But now in our 20-something-century-modern-day anyone can afford to travel! Flying in economy class can also make someone happy! Traveling gives you sense of fulfillment, a carefree liberty, and a sense of happiness. If traveling is something you are passionate about and you know will give you happiness, then go ahead and do it! Explore the world, fill your eyes with places and faces, hope and happiness!

10. It is an investment. Imagine traveling as an investment. It teaches you more about life than the 4 corners of your cubicle in your 9 to 5 job. An Investment that cannot be snatched by anyone from you, it’s like education. You can put all of your experiences on you Resume and it’s an added plus! (Joke, half meant). But on a serious note, it’s an investment that you can share to anybody! When you’re old and cannot travel anymore, it is the stories that you will tell to your grandchildren! It’s like investing memories in your head, because in the future someone will benefit from it; it can be yourself too!

75 Inspirational Travel Quotes about Traveling

The best inspirational travel quotes about traveling and getting motivated to explore the world. enjoy reading these traveling quotes from famous travelers.

I believe traveling is a good way of enjoying life. and creating a stress free mind from all the busy things in life. When we are traveling some places, the sheer beauty of nature and our happiness created by those beautiful things. make our life’s worth living and enjoy our self. 75 Inspirational Travel Quotes about Traveling

So without further due enjoy our collection of some of the best inspirational travel quotes to get us motivated.. Enjoy and continue to travel the beautiful places in the future..

Inspirational Travel Quotes

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

It feels good to be lost in the right direction.

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. – Anonymous

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

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions. — Peter Hoeg

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

Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss

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

To live will be an awfully big adventure.

I was never going to go if I waited for someone to come with me.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Adventure is worthwhile. – Aesop

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

I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.

We take photos as a return ticket to a moment otherwise gone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have an insane calling to be where I’m not.

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous

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

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

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

Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures…

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show. …

You will never be completely at home again, because pary of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

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

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.

Oh darling, lets be adventurers

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

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

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

Go ahead. You never know what could be on the other side.

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

Not all those who wander are lost.

You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you’ll never be this way ever again.

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled.

If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

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

Travel as much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.

This heart of mine was made to travel this world.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. – Wendell Berry

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

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

There is still so much to see.

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

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

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

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

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

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

Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of all the books the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.

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

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

I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.

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

The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands. – Sir Richard Burton

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

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

I’m going to see the world.

Travel not to find yourself but to remember who you’ve been all along.

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

Travel is… Getting to know yourself by facing new experiences.

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

It’s better to look back on life and say:I can’t believe I did that. than to look back and say:I wish I did that.

It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed is you.

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

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

Travel is still the most intense mode of learning.

We hope you have enjoyed our list of inspirational travel quotes. traveling is one of the best way to find peace inside you. when your life sucks and you want to be happy, be a traveler… explore new world and find the hidden nature beauty. and when you want to memories those sweet moments of your journey..enjoy reading these traveling quotes from famous travelers.

Travel is NOT the Only Thing You Buy That Makes You Richer

A lovely little picture popped up on my Instagram feed the other day. ‘Travel is the Only Thing you Buy that Makes you Richer’ – Said Internet

Then beneath a rabbit reading with his feet dangling off the edge of a cliff next to his tent it said ‘LOL, there are also books’ – Said Zayts

It got me thinking… There are loads of things we can and do buy that make us richer.

Not only is the idea that travel is the only thing that we can buy to make our lives richer a privileged and elitist sentiment, it’s also just kind of wrong.

I do understand the sentiment. I get the thought behind it. But it’s pretty short sighted and ironically consumerist. It’s the product of a consumption mindset. The consumption mindset of someone who has enough basic levels of wealth to be able to make that call.

Retail Therapy

I used to think retail therapy was a load of nonsense. The idea that when you’re going through or have been through something hard you go shopping to make it all better. I still think this is a load of nonsense if you’re seeking long term satisfaction… BUT I do think there are things we can buy that make us richer.

I believe that retail therapy has a place when we buy stuff that carries meaning. And I believe that there are other things we can buy that make us richer…

Like buying a gift for someone. No strings attached.

There are studies that show when we give to others we feel better in ourselves. When we know we are bringing joy, love or support to another person it sparks a reaction in the middle region of the brain (the pleasure bit).

Dunn, Aknin, and Norton carried out research into this and found a strong link between giving and happiness. Clearly this can become a slightly murky topic when we move to a line of thought that says ‘give in order to be happy’, but we won’t go there.

Gifts and donations are both things you can buy that make YOU richer. Not only that, they make others richer and the world at large once the seed of giving is planted.

Like buying stuff to make stuff.

Another thing we can buy that makes us richer is stuff to make stuff. My life becomes richer when I buy a notebook, guitar strings, a new piece of musical equipment to play with. Why? Because these are tools and resources that enable creativity.

Creativity is something that when it’s shared can make us richer as society.

The value of society can usually be seen in the quality of its culture. What are we building, making, creating? How do we see the world and how do we bring an intrinsic sense of value to the collective life of society? To build we need materials. Materials usually need to be bought.

I mentioned the difference between pleasure and enjoyment in a recent post about Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of Flow. This is an important distinguishing feature when we consider retail therapy. In the context of this ‘richness’ concept we might say that enjoyment = richness.

Like buying ingredients for food.

A few months ago I started baking our own bread. I identified shop-bought bread (and its MANY ingredients) as one of the biggest contributors to my inability to lose weight. So I went out and bought some flour, yeast, and salt. I’ve never looked back. It’s the most intrinsically enjoyable process.

It brings a great deal of inner delight to eat bread that has been made by my own hand and to know that it consists of nothing but basic ingredients. It brings richness both to my own body, and also to my spirit – the results improve with every loaf I make.

This can be experienced whenever we cook from scratch. The process of creating a meal and then eating what you’ve made brings a deep sense of richness and satisfaction. There is also a richness drawn from the progress and improvement experienced over time as you develop your skills.

Like buying the work of our makers.

Zayts mentioned books. I would add music, films, entry to performances, galleries and museums. The list goes on. When we spend money on the products of our culture’s makers we are enriching our own lives and culture more broadly. We are contributing to the potential for more making to happen. Everyone wins.

When you buy an album, go to a show, see a film etc you are enriching your experience of the world. You are also contributing to the potential future production of more. You can feel satisfied that the richness is not just experienced for you as an individual but it stretches further and deeper into society more generally.

Collective Choice

It’s not simply about your own individual experience as a result of the money you’ve spent. We are in it together. Every consumer choice we make has profoundly far reaching consequences that stretch way beyond that which we can see.

Our choices may seem like individual choices but they are actually a part of a huge and intricate ecosystem. Some choices destroy value (buying and demanding a more disposable society – like fast food, and fast fashion in clothing, trends, and technology – stuff that requires poorer and poorer labour conditions and massive areas of landfill to dispose of yesterday’s fads).

We need to feel the impact of our choices. To know that we can make good choices and that we don’t have to succumb to the pressures of a growth driven economy that desires and perpetuates a valueless society. We can choose to invest our money in things that matter.

We can transcend this idea that we spend to be happy, and choose instead to use our money as an investment into real inner growth of us as individuals and as a collective.

With that in mind I believe there are a great many things we can buy that will make us rich.

Over to You

Travel is not the only thing you can buy that makes you richer. What do YOU buy that makes you richer? I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please leave a comment below.