“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”— Tom Wolfe, amazon.com
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter ac…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Don’t get buried in self-doubt just because someone else, no matter who they are to you in life, projects his/her own self-doubts onto you.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Nothing is more rewarding and admirable than leading by silent example.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“So, thank you so much after all for getting away. You brought me back to the most important person in my life: me.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“You see, if it had worked out the way the storybook fantasy played out in my head, I wouldn’t have met nearly as many new people as I have since you and I cut ties, each of whom has contributed in a small or huge way to my life.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s strange how someone who was once my best friend became a total stranger.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“As for me, sometimes I’m so deliriously happy that I could cry. If I saw you again I would hug you, just to thank you for walking away.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Each local experience has the potential to open your world even further, allowing space for new belief systems and ways of sharing meals, spirituality, and methods of daily life that were previously mysteries.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Anyone who travels also understands that this world is impossibly big while being surprisingly small and interconnected all at the same time. We’re humbled by what we’ve seen, and we know full-well that we’re not the biggest fish in the sea.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“We know it’s rude to point the bottom of your feet at someone in Thailand, we understand how to shake someone’s hand in Southern Africa, and we grasp that it’s important to say, ‘Bonjour’ when entering a store in France.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Corporations negotiate with millions and travelers do so with dollars and cents – volume is really the only difference.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Up ahead they's a thousand lives we might live, but when it comes it'll only be one.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“The point of hitchhiking is not just to get a free ride, but rather because of the guarantee that it will be an experience completely out of the unknown.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com