#sickness

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air; And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair; And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome; But when it comes to living there is no place like home. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#europe #homesickness #dreams

Love alleviates you the moment you become too sick with it. Live to love, even if you don’t outlive the experience. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #love #sickness #experience

The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires. ↗

— Samuel Zwemer

#inverted-homesickness #missionary #missions #home

I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#love #selfishness #sickness #love

Were she better, or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he had Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves. ↗

— John Green

#illness #sickness #starcrossed #stars #nature

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#travel

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments.. ↗

— W.

#homesickness #love #memories #missing #missing-friends

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. ↗

— John Donne

#employs #god #justice #pieces #several

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw. ↗

— David Duchovny

#celebrities #celebrity #country #death #human

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#breaches #bright #clear #does #fair