Hans Christian Anderson proves that distant lands aren't just for fairytales.

"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

It's true: traveling and moving away from home will mean pieces of your heart are all over the planet. The upside is that you always have a place to stay when you travel.

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

During her life, Eleanor Roosevelt visited every state in America and all continents except Antarctica. In her first year as First Lady, she traveled over 40,000 miles.

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." --Eleanor Roosevelt

Whether you're at the penny hoarding stage of traveling and haven't even bought your ticket, or you're sitting in a cramped seat on the 10+ hour plane ride back home, keep in mind it's always about the journey.

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." --Lao Tzu

Traveling will change you. Take the pieces of your newfound self with you instead of a plastic trinket.

"So much of who we are is where we have been." --William Langewiesche