Frank Relle

“See how small your are next to the mountains. Accept what is bigger that you and what you do not understand. The world may appear illogical to you, but it does not follow that it is illogical per se. Our life is not the measure of all things: consider sublime places a reminder of human insignificance and frailty.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

“To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments. To achieve such autonomy, a person has to learn to provide rewards to herself. She has to develop the ability to find enjoyment and purpose regardless of external circumstances.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

“You're saying that man "makes" his territory by naming the "things" in it?”
― Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia