I'm in love with cities I have never been to and with people I have never met.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
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)
1Get out and open your eyes, this small world is filled with things to see.
Dusan Mirkovic in Downsizing
1Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
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.
Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.
"That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere, Vin," he said with a wink. "Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again."
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Final Empire
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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".
Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.
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3He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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.
But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.
I'm Starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.
"I kind of lost track of time..."
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved."
"For two hours?"
Elend nodded sheepishly. "There were books involved."
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension
1"Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway."
Brandon Sanderson in Mistborn - The Well of Ascension
Maybe hope is the last wisdom of the fools.
Not a very successful species, these Homo Sapiens, even with such great intelligence. Barely 200,000 years. Alligator has survived 200 million years, with a brain the size of a walnut.
Dr. Jorgen Asbjørnsen in Downsizing
1Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
I don't like video games. My ex husband used to play Tomb Raider. I would walk by him and say, "Oh, look at her breasts". But then I met with the director and he told me it wouldn't be campy or stupid. I realized it was a real movie with a solid character.
Angelina Jolie - June 2001
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.
Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.
We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.
If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.
Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer
1"I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."
She raised an eyebrow.
"Sharp as hell," Lightsong said, "but lacking a point."