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Travel is an act of humility
Hello Kitty will never speak.
I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.
The beauty of being foreign is that it snaps you awake.
A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
For centuries, Cubas greatest resource has been its people.
For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.
Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.
Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man.
Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
The more we run from a problem, the more we're actually running into it.
Making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.
In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
To step away from the world isn't to draw back; it's actually a way to tune in.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves.
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life
We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.
Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.
Home is not just the place where you happen to be born. Its the place where you become yourself.
A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.
We may be joined these days more by the questions we have in common than by the answers we share.
Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.
I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.
In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction.
Movement is a fantastic privilege but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
Movement is a fantastic privilege... but it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.
We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.