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    Roman Payne
    “This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.”
    ― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries
    tags: affections, bad, cities, cities-and-countries, city, good, payne, roman, soul, travel, voyage
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    Hubert Selby Jr.
    “There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon. ”
    ― Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream
    tags: change, city, night, reality, stars
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    Charles Baudelaire
    “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: cities, life, monsters
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    Italo Calvino
    “You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
    tags: cities
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    Simon Van Booy
    “For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
    like home.”
    ― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After
    tags: cities
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    Italo Calvino
    “With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
    ― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
    tags: cities
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    Stephanie Perkins
    “For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”
    ― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
    tags: home, love, relationships, touching
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    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    ― Warsan Shire
    tags: day, end, home, warsan-shire
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    Pascal Mercier
    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel
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    Robin Hobb
    “Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.”
    ― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate
    tags: family, home
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    Pierce Brown
    “Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
    ― Pierce Brown, Golden Son
    tags: family, home
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    Gary Snyder
    “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
    ― Gary Snyder
    tags: conservation, home, nature
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    George Carlin
    “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: grass, hero, heroism, individualism, individuality, nature
    2472 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
    ― William Shakespeare
    tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry
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    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
    ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    tags: beauty, canyons, carvings, nature, perseverance, suffering, windstorms
    1563 likes

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    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: nature
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  • #17
    André Gide
    “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
    ― Andre Gide
    tags: courage, daring, discovery, exploration, inspirational
    1375 likes

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    Roman Payne
    “You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.”
    ― Roman Payne
    tags: empowerment, exploration, feminism, roman-payne, strong-women, the-wanderess, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering
    1177 likes

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    Ransom Riggs
    “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.”
    ― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
    tags: exploration, home, new-beginnings
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
    Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson
    tags: alone, arriving, charlotte-eriksson, finding-yourself, growing-up, home, leaving, lost, prose, the-glass-child, the-great-perhaps, travelling, vagabonding, wandering, youth
    363 likes

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  • #21
    Mandy Hale
    “Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.”
    ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
    tags: destination, destiny, detours, everything-happens-for-a-reason, failure, faith, fate, getting-lost, greater-calling, live-and-learn, meant-to-be, positive-attitude, positive-thinking, purpose, right-place, road-blocks, the-journey-of-life, trusting-your-journey, wandering, wrong-decisions, wrong-turns
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    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45230 likes

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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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  • #25
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #26
    Helen Keller
    “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
    ― Helen Keller
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    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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  • #28
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    ― Lewis Carroll
    tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday
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  • #29
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational
    15322 likes

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  • #30
    Nicholas Sparks
    “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
    ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
    tags: inspirational, the-notebook
    13678 likes



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