#rave

We can't be brave without fear. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fear #inspirational #inspirational

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#confidence #imaginative #inspirational #imagination

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus. ↗

— Nicolas Bouvier

#change

To travel beyond our world is to change this present one forever. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#life #life-and-living #life-changing #life-lessons #travel

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts. ↗

— Joshua Sylvester

#deceased #delighting #forsaken #ghosts #graves

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known ↗

— Carson McCullers

#travel #inspirational

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#glamorous #only #retrospect

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it? ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#deranged #different #drapes #elevator #git

I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#any #better #i #imagine #place