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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
    1732 likes

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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: tourism, travel
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    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
    ― mary anne radmacher
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    Ryū Murakami
    “Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
    ― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies
    tags: travel
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    Shane L. Koyczan
    “Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.”
    ― Shane Koyczan
    tags: difference, life, travel
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    Gwyn Thomas
    “But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.”
    ― Gwyn Thomas
    tags: beauty, travel, walking
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    “We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.”
    ― Jeremy Glass
    tags: adventure, life-and-living, spontaneity, technology, travel
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Jimi Hendrix
    “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
    ― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos
    tags: death, life
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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
    tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness
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  • #13
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13147 likes

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    Sarah Dessen
    “There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
    ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
    tags: just-litsen, sarah-dessen, time
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    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: attitude, bitter, bitterness, fact, facts, hate, hateful, inspirational-attitude
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    Coco J. Ginger
    “Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.
    Words you can’t have back, so they linger.”
    ― Coco J. Ginger
    tags: betrayal, bitter, breaking-up, friendship, friendship-and-love, gossip, love, love-story, words
    157 likes

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  • #19
    Leonard Cohen
    “How bitter were
    the Prozac pills
    of the last
    few hundred mornings”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing
    tags: bitter, pills, prozac
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    Frédéric Beigbeder
    “The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.”
    ― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans
    tags: bitter
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss
    tags: depression, pain, trauma
    5253 likes



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