“Huck was always willing to take a hand in any enterprise that offered entertainment and required no capital, for he had a troublesome super-abundance of that sort of time which is not money.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Be the girl who travels and changes the world. Build houses, teach children, or volunteer at an orphanage. Serve the world that’s given so much to you, and let it simultaneously give you a sense of greater purpose.”— Jerrica Peterson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her.”— Roman Payne
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”— Roman Payne, amazon.com
“they loved us, those stars. They must have, anyway, for they did what no one did, what even we could not: they saw us and spared us.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“they leaned into everything: cigarettes and stories, nips of whiskey, / laughter like blackbirds rising across a white sky.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”— Jo Walton, amazon.com
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”— William Styron, amazon.com
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“All the happiness in the world stems from wanting others to be happy, and all the suffering in the world stems from wanting the self to be happy.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“Sometimes life isn’t about anything new that we have to learn, but about what we have to UNlearn instead.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“By being so focused on how things ‘could be,’ we are under-appreciating how great things already are.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“Wouldn’t it be great to stop, if only for a minute on a regular basis, and reflect on how wonderful everything is?”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.”— Jamie Tworkowski, amazon.com
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”— Agatha Christie, amazon.com