33 Quotes About Living Abroad You Need to Read
Quotes about living abroad capture the journey of moving to a new place, embracing different cultures, and stepping out of your comfort zone. They reflect the excitement of exploring the unknown, the beauty of meeting new people, and the challenges of adjusting to life far from home.
When I struggle to put my feelings about living abroad into words, I often turn to these quotes for comfort and inspiration.
Whether you're planning to move abroad or are already living in a new country, these quotes are here to resonate with your journey and remind you that you're not alone. So, save this post and come back to it whenever you need a little encouragement or a reminder of why living abroad is such a special adventure.
30+ Living Abroad Quotes
If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
Mary Anne Radmacher
Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.
Paulo Coelho
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
A year from now you'll wish you had started today.
Karen Lamb
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
Danny Kaye
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
J.P. Morgan
Courage is found in unlikely places.
J.R.R. Tolkein
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Neale Donald Walsch
We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.
Dr. Henry Link
When you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things that are worse, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Bill Bryson
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
Hannah Arendt
So, here you are. Too foreign for home, too foreign for here. Never enough for both.
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
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.
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.
The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.
Adam Gopnik
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
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place like you’ll not miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place because you’ll never be this way ever again.
Azar Nafisi
It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.
Sarah Turnbull
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
Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what’s even scarier? Regret.
Adam Gopnik
Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.
Tom Freston
The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
Zach Braff
If you never go, you will never know.
Zach Braff
You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.
Geoffrey Willians
Part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you page for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.
Miriam Adeney
The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Jodi Picoult
And suddenly you just know… it’s time to start something new and trust in the magic of new beginnings.
Meister eckhart
Moving Abroad Quotes
Living abroad is an incredible journey, but it's absolutely normal to feel out of place, to miss home, or to question what home truly means. These moments are all part of the experience and make your journey unique. The challenges of living abroad can be tough, but they also help you grow in ways you never imagined.
If you're looking for a little encouragement, these quotes about living abroad offer inspiration and comfort. Save this post and share it with someone who’s navigating life abroad. Remember, it’s okay to feel all the emotions—this adventure is shaping you in amazing ways.
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