Rachel McAdams Quotes

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it's not the peopleand it's not the things, it's travel and experiencing different environments.

I'd really like to visit India and South America. I think India will be a great mix of sightseeing and relaxing, and I've got a feeling it will also be good for one's soul and spirit. And I'd love to go backpacking around South America at some point. I did that in Australia when I was younger, and the camaraderie was great fun.

The vast majority of young people I meet would benefit so much from a year off. You should just go waste a year in exploring the beauty of the world and trying the craziest experiences you can.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

I don't think that it's possible to have a truly rewarding experience in travel if it's simple.

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do.

I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I think that's the most enriching thing, for my nature, because I like the psychology of people.

I went from staring at the same four walls for 21 years to seeing the whole world in just 12 months.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Oh, the places you will go.

travel is compost for the mind

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

I believe the important thing is to continue to create new experiences. That's why so many retired people travel. New experiences raise our consciousness and stimulate cognition. Retirement offers the opportunity to learn new things, and that is what keeps you young, at heart at least.

Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.