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#1

“...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.”
― Nick Hornby, About a Boy

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#2

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, introspection, self-discovery

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#3

“If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
― Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll

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#4

“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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#5

“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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#6

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: queen-of-hearts

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#7

“I can dive", Sophia said. "Do you know what it feels like when you dive?"
Of course I do," her grandmother said. "You let go of everything and get ready and just dive. You can feel the seaweed against your legs. It's brown, and the water's clear, lighter towards the top, with lots of bubbles. And you glide. You hold your breath and glide and turn and come up, let yourself rise and breathe out. And then you float. Just float."
And all the time with your eyes open," Sophia said.
Naturally. People don't dive with their eyes shut."
Do you believe I can dive without me showing you?" the child asked.
Yes, of course", Grandmother said.”
― Tove Jansson, The Summer Book

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#8

“Želio bih umrijeti u sunčanom danu. Klicu te male tajne želje nosim u sebi od djetinjstva. Što me kod smrti najviše plaši, to je predstava mraka s kojom je ona skopčana. Divim se religijama Istoka, koje su uspjele da čovjeku dočaraju svijetlu, sunčanu smrt, da mu usade predstavu beskrajnog jása za grobom. One su, možda, učinile čovjeku najveće dobro koje se smrtniku može da učini.
Želio bih umrijeti izvaljen nauzak na dobroj, vrućoj zemlji, sav u suncu i jásu, umrijeti u jedrini dana, u sat uzavrelih zrikavaca. U sat kad sanjivo šute povijena žita i nijemo bujaju oteščani grozdovi, u sat vrele podnevne tišine. Plaši me smrt u predvečerje, smrt u jesen, smrt iza kosih zavjesa kiše.”
― Vladan Desnica, Proljeća Ivana Galeba

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#9

“90% of everything is crap.”
― Theodore Sturgeon

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#10

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel

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#11

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

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#12

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

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#13

“The heart will break, but broken live on. ”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

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#14

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

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#15

“Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.”
― Bette Davis

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#16

“Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.”
― Natsuki Takaya

tags: fruits-basket, haru, try

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#17

“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”
― Jo Nesbo

tags: death, depression, despair, life

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#18

“Happy," I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don’t have much faith in them and I am no exception – especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far to relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they’re scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

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#19

“It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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#20

“No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

tags: life

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#21

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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#22

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy

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#23

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

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#24

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity

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#25

“Čudan je taj život, vrlo neobičan. Samo rijetki shvaćaju vlastitu moć izbora. Sposobnost ostvarivanja snova. Ali biti sanjar vrlo je nepopularno i općeneprihvatljivo. Ponekad se takvo stanje opisuje kao bolest: nesposobnost prilagođavanja okolini. Kad malo mućnem glavom, to je upravo točno i potpuno istinito. ... Zato sam, eto, jednog dana odlučio biti bolestan od slobode. Hodam i sanjam i ne zamaram se visinom BDP-a ili pobjedom nogometne reprezentacije.”
― Hrvoje Ivančić, Dunavski blues

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#26

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

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#27

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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#28

“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

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#29

“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, You're Doing Just Fine

tags: adventure, charlotte-eriksson, happy, journey, nature, open-road, outside, road-trip, roads, stillness

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#30

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: errant, exploration, exploring, instability, land, legs, mankind, mobility, quotes-from-books, quotes-from-novels, racines, roots, stability, travel-novels, travel-writing, traveling, traveling-alone, travelling, travelogue, travels, trees, vines, voyage, voyages, voyaging, wander, wanderess, wandering, wanderlove, wanderlust

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