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  • #1
    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    J.K. Rowling

  • #2
    Andrew Solomon
    “Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
    Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

  • #3
    Alfred Tennyson
    “Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
    Tears from the depths of some devine despair
    Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
    In looking on the happy autumn fields,
    And thinking of the days that are no more.”
    Alfred Lord Tennyson

  • #4
    Karl Lagerfeld
    “What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
    Karl Lagerfeld

  • #5
    Cherise Sinclair
    “When something horrible happens, your brain doesn't process the memories right. It stores everything-- sounds, pain, smells, feelings-- all mixed up. It doesn't matter if you believed it or it made sense; it gets stored.”
    Cherise Sinclair, To Command and Collar

  • #6
    Bram Stoker
    “Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
    Bram Stoker, Dracula

  • #7
    Coco J. Ginger
    “You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.”
    Jamie Weise

  • #8
    Willa Cather
    “Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
    Willa Cather, My Ántonia

  • #9
    Stewart  Lewis
    “Losing someone is like when the sun comes through a window, moving across the room with each hour, until night falls and all you can do is try to remember the soothing shapes it made.”
    Stewart Lewis, You Have Seven Messages

  • #10
    Charles Dickens
    “The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them”
    Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

  • #11
    Haruki Murakami
    “The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they came back stronger and more vivid than ever. Like cancer cells, these memories have taken root in my mind and eaten into my flesh.”
    Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • #12
    Albert Camus
    “I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys: the smells of summer, the part of town I loved, a certain evening sky, Marie's dresses and the way she laughed.”
    Albert Camus, The Stranger

  • #13
    “You know how sometimes you remember a place you once loved, a movie you’ve enjoyed, only to be disappointed when you return to that place or see that movie for a second time? Well, it wasn’t disappointing. She sounds exactly as I remember her—and there is still something so warm and caring about her that it is difficult to hate her for how she abandoned us.”
    Christina Westover, Poisoning Sylvie

  • #14
    “It is interesting how one word can spark memories that one believes she has buried beyond recognition.”
    Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney, Asha in Time

  • #15
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #16
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #17
    Lao Tzu
    “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
    Lao Tzu

  • #18
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #19
    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

  • #20
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #21
    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

  • #22
    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    Rumi Jalalud-Din

  • #24
    E.E. Cummings
    “may came home with a smooth round stone
    as small as a world and as large as alone.”
    E.E. Cummings

  • #25
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

  • #26
    “But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
    Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

  • #27
    Judith Thurman
    “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
    Judith Thurman

  • #28
    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To travel is to live.”
    Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography

  • #29
    Mary Anne Radmacher
    “I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”
    mary anne radmacher

  • #30
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    Gustave Flaubert



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