#ravel

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good. ↗

— Saadi

#life #travel #inspirational

In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew. ↗

— Bruce Feiler

#inspirational #travel #inspirational

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

#self #travel #world #life

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live. ↗

— Lavinia Spalding

#living-vicariously #rolf-potts #travel #vagabonding #life

So, too, how to tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in ↗

— Laura Fraser

#life

Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient... ↗

— Grace Lichtenstein

#life #motorcycle #travel #life

Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. "Time travelers," said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. "They're everywhere these days. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#doctor #time-travel #life

He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of the locals. These were the few who actually noticed that locals did things differently. Others managed to travel so ‘covered and wrapped in a taciturn and incommunicative prudence, defending themselves from the contagion of an unknown atmosphere’ that they noticed nothing at all. ↗

— Sarah Bakewell

#nationalism #quote #sarah-bakewell #travel #xenophobia

Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very much to be let in on. An amiable smile stretched across his lips quoted by perfect dimples. I stared at him wanting nothing more than to indulge myself in that smile. ↗

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#severance #shawn-kirsten-maravel #volition #young-adult-novels #love

Every great day has a story and a song! ↗

— Faith Reese Martin

#courage #fantasy #friendship #historical-fiction #lost-colony