“We were frightened of being left alone for the rest of our lives. Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at the age of 26. We were of that disposition.”
-Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Have you read High Fidelity
Monsoon Palace, Udaipur, India
“It’s a characteristic of human nature that the best qualities, called up quickly in a crisis, are very often the hardest to find in a prosperous calm.”
-Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
St Paul de Vence, France
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
-Jonathan Safron Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Natalie in Chiang Mai
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(This is a really great book and not a heavy lift.)
hiking in Israel
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
– Anne Frank in her Diary
(with thanks to Chris, author of The Art of Non-Conformity
train to Udaipur, kindly ignore the hair
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”
-William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Adorable Japanese Mom in Koh Phi Phi Leh
“The question is not who is going to let me, but who is going to stop me.”
-Ayn Rand
Hong Kong
“As a general rule, if you don’t know what to do on any given day, spend at least some of your time helping someone else.”
–Chris Guillebeau, The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
Elephant sprays water
“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
—John Cage
Mattie the Berner in Rock Creek Park
“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
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