To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
-Freya Stark
Quote of the day
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
-Freya Stark
Something was said at work today that reminded me of this:
“For my part, I refuse to hold decisions made in their youth against them, because I wouldn’t want to be held in contempt for all the decisions made by me in my youth.”
From “Seal Team Six” by Howard Wasdin
I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.
-Anne Radmacher
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
― Randy Komisar, The Monk and the Riddle: The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur
“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”
― Miriam Beard
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – attributed to Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It