Lucija

“stepping out of the airport into coastal Colombia is like getting bludgeoned with a sack of wet laundry.”
― Brian Kevin, The Footloose American: Following the Hunter S. Thompson Trail Across South America

“Foot speed was a profoundly different way of moving through the world than my normal modes of travel. Miles weren’t things that blazed dully past. They were long, intimate straggles of weeds and clumps of dirt, blades of grass and flowers that bent in the wind, trees that lumbered and screeched. They were the sound of my breath and my feet hitting the trail one step at a time and the click of my ski pole. The PCT had taught me what a mile was. I was humble before each and every one.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“In a word, if happiness has befallen us, its source is not within us, but elsewhere, outside, beyond us and our community, far away, in Others.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński

“Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else.”
― Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League