“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”— Vincent Van Gogh, goodreads.com
“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.”— Alysia Harris, goodreads.com
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.…”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“Being awake is love. That’s what it is. It’s certainly not hate. It’s certainly not fear. But what it is, it’s a sense of being not separate from all the suffering and all of the emptiness, all of the compassion, all of the wisdom, all of the liberation, and all of the enslavement, to understand we’…”— Joan Halifax, imdb.com
“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose …”— Felix Gonzalez-Torres, amazon.com
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”— Marcel Proust, goodreads.com
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”— Rudyard Kipling, goodreads.com
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.”— D.H. Lawrence, goodreads.com
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”— Mary Anne Radmacher, goodreads.com
“Life might be difficult for a while, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.”— David Sedaris, davidsedarisbooks.com
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same”— Sarah Turnbull, goodreads.com
“’The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”— Adam Gopnik, goodreads.com
“Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”— Clifton Fadiman, goodreads.com