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The Painful Pleasure of Home
Posted by: kirsten2011 on March 3, 2010
First Blog!
Posted by: kirsten2011 on July 19, 2009
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"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“To have another language is to posses a second soul.” -Charlemagne
"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new lands but in seeing with new eyes." -Marcel Proust
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." -Benjamin Disraeli
"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it." -Samuel Johnson
"One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." -Henry Miller
"The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart." -Julien Green
"One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it." -Sidney Howard
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different" -Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." -Frank Herbert
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it." -Charles DeLint
"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." -J.M. Power