Jackie Kotsovos

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“One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.”
― Pico Iyer, The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home

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“...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.”
― Pico Iyer, The Man Within My Head

tags: home, traveling

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“Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.”
― Erol Ozan

tags: beauty, cars, decisions, discovery, driving, fork, highway, journey, journey-of-life, life, life-lessons, lost, lostness, road, road-trip, roads, route, route-66, transportation, travel, voyage

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“Going nowhere, as Leonard Cohen would later emphasize for me, isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply. •”
― Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

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“There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps