“We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. When we get home, home is still the same, but something in our minds has changed, and that changes everything”— Jonah Leher, theguardian.com
“i love people who are free- the ones who are all-things beautiful. they're the ones who make this life worth living.”— Ashley Duvan, instagram.com
“'I'm gonna have to follow you around the world for the rest of our lives, aren't i'? she looked at him, love pouring from her eyes as her heart fluttered a tiny wing, 'no no,' she lied, 'i'll settle down one day.'”— Ashley Duvan, instagram.com
“leaving is easy, it always has been. what takes the most courage for a soul like mine is finding the strength to stay.”— Ashley Duvan, instagram.com
“She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.”— John Green, instagram.com
“while acknowledging we are not alone, we are but one of many places and people.”— James Stack, amazon.com
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grap…”— Mark Jenkins, goodreads.com
“There is little to the concept of ‘belonging’ other than being possessed by your own haunting need to be completed. It is not being homeless but being a wanderer not searching for a home that sets you free.”— Julia Laksa, thoughtcatalog.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