Posts Tagged ‘Travel’

Posted: June 2, 2012 in Quotes
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In life, a person will come and go from many homes. We may leave a house, a town, a room, but that does not mean those places leave us. Once entered, we never entirely depart the homes we make for ourselves in the world. They follow us, like shadows, until we come upon them again, [...]

Aleph by Paolo Coelho

Posted: May 21, 2012 in Book Notes
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Thou knowest all – I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity. – Oscar Wilde, “The True Knowledge” I’ve been trying all my life to find out what my limits are and have never reached them yet. But then my universe doesn’t [...]

Posted: December 7, 2011 in Quotes
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Being able to do as one pleases is the natural goal of the libertarian, but having nothing to do is not. While it may be correct to say that the human species is badly prepared for having nothing to do, it is quite a different matter to say that it is badly prepared for the [...]

Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman

Posted: December 5, 2011 in Poetry
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Allons! the road is before us! It is safe–I have tried it–my own feet have tried it well–be not detain’d! Let the paper remain on the desk unwritten, and the book on the shelf unopen’d! Let the tools remain in the workshop! let the money remain unearn’d! Let the school stand! mind not the cry [...]

Why We Travel by Pico Iyer

Posted: December 5, 2011 in Multimedia
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently [...]

Posted: November 7, 2011 in Quotes
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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. ― George Santayana

Posted: October 16, 2011 in Quotes
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louise Stevenson

Quotes on Harmony

Posted: October 14, 2011 in Quotes
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Beauty is being in harmony with what you are. – Peter Nivio Zarlenga Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. – Mahatma Gandhi Wandering re-established the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. – Anatole France

Posted: July 6, 2011 in Quotes
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Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms. Strong and content I travel the open road. – Walt Whitman

[Kahlil Gibran’s] His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own. – Claude Bragdon Love And ever has it been that love knows not its own [...]