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Tom Robbins
“Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.”
Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito

Eric    Weiner
“Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff of panic; we’re afraid the moment might end abruptly. But then there are other moments when our joy is more solidly grounded. I am not speaking of a transcendental moment, of bliss, but something less.”
Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

Alain de Botton
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.”
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

Alain de Botton
“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

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