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🎉Life Quotes🥳
"I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he."
"Sure, I might not be someone to look up to, but you're no role model either."
"Travel is life-changing. That's the promise made by a thousand websites and magazines, by philosophers and writers down the ages. Mark Twain said it was fatal to prejudice, and Thomas Jefferson said it made you wise. Anais Nin observed that "we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." It's all true. Self-transformation is what I sought and what I found."
"There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads."
"I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but theyve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness."
"Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting."
"In the travellers world, social media have enlarged the generation gap. The internet has brought a change in the very concept of travel as a process taking one away from the familiar into the unknown. Now the familiar is not left behind and the unknown has become familiar even before one leaves home. Unpredictability C to my generation the salt that gave travelling its savour C seems unnecessary if not downright irritating to many of the young. The sunset challenge C where to sleep? C has been banished by the ease of booking into a hostel or organised campsite with a street plan provided by the internet. Moreover, relatives and friends evidently expect regular reassurance about the travellers precise location and welfare C and vice versa, the traveller needing to know that all is well back home. Notoriously, dependence on instant communication with distant family and friends is known to stunt the development of self-reliance. Perhaps that is why, amongst younger travellers, one notices a new timidity."
"I stood there, battered by the raw power and sheer magnificence of a land I'd never known"
"Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape..."
"You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step."
"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within."
"You never know travel path of every man."
"It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didnt want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only something else worth living."
"The sacred travel path is ones life journey."
"... what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name."
"Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance."
"Summer is leaving silently. Much like a traveler approaching the end of an amazing journey."
"Tourism is the great soporific. It's a huge confidence trick, and gives people the dangerous idea that there's something interesting in their lives. It's musical chairs in reverse..... All the upgrades in existence lead to the same airports and resort hotels, the same pina colada bullshit. The tourists smile at their tans and their shiny teeth and think they're happy. But the suntans hide who they really are-- salary slaves, with heads full of American rubbish. Travel is the last fantasy the 2oth Century left us, the delusion that going somewhere helps you reinvent yourself."
"I would rather have 10,000 stories than 10,000 in my bank account @myhumancompass Roy ('Backpack') Baron author of Looking Glass Shattered."
"Man made borders not to limit himself, but to have something to cross."