“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you…”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by th…”— Jim Rohn, goodreads.com
“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”— Tom Bodett, goodreads.com
“When baffled in one direction a man of energy will not despair, but will find another way to his object.”— Chinese Proverb, books.google.com.ph
“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”— Wayne Dyer, goodreads.com
“He told himself he had never felt so happy, and he felt a sort of ache that this was happening and would never again happen in just this way no matter how long he lived.”— David Guterson, amazon.com
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com
“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”— Maya Angelou, oprah.com
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”— Naomi Shihab Nye, amazon.com
“I couldn't decide if sites really need seeing or if virtual experience has become enough.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Most experiences are unsayable; they come to fullness in a realm that words do not inhabit.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Human awareness extracts geometry as a perceptual experience. Reality is possibilities for shapes and forms.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“Ceasing to travel really pulls the plug on that which makes us human. Travel bridges the education and cultural gaps. It fosters shifts in perspective. It fuels curiosity, empathy, tolerance, respect, understanding.”— Joe Diaz, youtube.com
“Old souls care more about experiences, about spending quality time together than they’ll ever care about expensive jewelry and flowers or what money buys. They value you, the wonderful person you are, the person they fell in love with.”— Lori De La Cruz, lifehack.org