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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Dalai Lama XIV
    “Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.”
    Dalai Lama XIV

  • #3
    “People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.”
    John Porter

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”
    Karim Seddiki

  • #6
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    John A. Shedd

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  • #8
    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.”
    Elsie de Wolfe

  • #9
    Elsie de Wolfe
    “Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.”
    Elsie de Wolfe

  • #10
    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

  • #11
    Elsie de Wolfe
    “I’m going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.”
    Elsie De Wolfe

  • #12
    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

  • #13
    Rupi Kaur
    “never feel guilty for starting again”
    Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

  • #14
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #15
    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

  • #16
    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #17
    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    Anita Desai

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    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

  • #21
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #22
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #23
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    Derek Walcott

  • #24
    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

  • #25
    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

  • #26
    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    Henry Miller

  • #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

  • #28
    “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
    James A. Michener

  • #29
    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life

  • #30
    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



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