The best Quotes by Ella Maillart

The best Quotes by Ella Maillart

Ella K. Maillart (20 February 1903 – 27 March 1997) was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

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Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".
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The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.
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Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.
Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 14
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He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
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Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.
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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
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No-one who wanders is every truly lost.
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You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.
Miriam Adeney (Author, Associate Professor of World Christian Studies)
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Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
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Facism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
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Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
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A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.
Traveling for the first time has something very touching to it.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.
Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.
We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.
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You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind
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God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.
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Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
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I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.
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Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?
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At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f*ck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.
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James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."
Emily Rhodes in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4
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We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
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If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.
Donald Tusk (about German soldiers helping with floodings in Poland) - September 2024
I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.
Taylor Swift - September 2024
Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.
Kamala Harris - September 2024
It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.
Joe Biden - August 2024
I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.
Ozzy Man Reviews - August 2024
I don't think you understand how Australians work. Once we get a hold of a good quality meme, we drive it into the ground until we die. We're all still dropping the old "I pulled a Bradbury" and that happened over 20 years ago.
August 2024

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