When you’re an independent traveler, you’re free to explore the world at your own pace and on your own terms. Every day is Independence Day!

Celebrate the freedom of solo travel with these quotes:
When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist“
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein
“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“
“Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live in?” – Caroline Myss
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.” – Marie Beyon Ray
“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
“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
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” — Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer
“The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” — Walt Whitman
“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” — Storm Jameson
“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” — Jacqueline Boone
“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” — Mandy Hale
“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” — Daphne du Maurier

Read more about solo travel:
Why Travel Solo? Here Are 7 Reasons to Get You Packing!
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