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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
    ― Dalai Lama XIV
    tags: non-conformity, rules
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    “People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.”
    ― John Porter
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    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #5
    “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
    ― Karim Seddiki
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    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: beloved, couple, date, dating, disguise, facade, fall-in-love, fool, foolish, games, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, look, looking, love, love-games, love-quotes, lover, mask, one, play, player, quotes, relationships, search, seek, seeking, soulmate, together, trick, trickster, true, truth, wild
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”
    ― Elsie de Wolfe
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
    ― Elsie de Wolfe
    tags: manners
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.”
    ― Elsie de Wolfe
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    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.”
    ― Elsie De Wolfe
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    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    “You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not,” said the mother of modern style, Elsie de Wolfe,”
    ― Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
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    Rupi Kaur
    “never feel guilty for starting again”
    ― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers
    tags: start-over
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
    5249 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: life, travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    tags: travel
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
    tags: goals, journey, travel
    3187 likes

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  • #21
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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  • #23
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: read, travel
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    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: humor, travel
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    Ma Jian
    “Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.”
    ― Ma Jian, Red Dust: A Path Through China
    tags: travel
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    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    ― Henry Miller
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  • #27
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
    To gain all while you give,
    To roam the roads of lands remote,
    To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
    tags: experience, life, travel
    774 likes

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  • #28
    “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
    ― James A. Michener
    tags: humor, missed-opportunities, open-mindedness, travel
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    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    ― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
    tags: library, reading, travel
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    Ray Bradbury
    “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: tourism, travel
    450 likes



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