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  • #1
    “Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
    Paul Terry

  • #2
    Carson McCullers
    “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
    Carson McCullers

  • #3
    George R.R. Martin
    “The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

  • #4
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #5
    José Saramago
    “...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another...”
    José Saramago, The Tale of the Unknown Island
    tags: sleep

  • #6
    I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit
    “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
    Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

  • #7
    Mehmet Murat ildan
    “It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!”
    Mehmet Murat ildan

  • #8
    Carson McCullers
    “Next to music, beer was best.”
    Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

  • #9
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #10
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #14
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

  • #15
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #16
    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

  • #17
    J.K. Rowling
    “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
    J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  • #18
    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    W.C. Fields

  • #19
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #20
    Jodi Picoult
    “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #21
    Henry Miller
    “i am a free man— and i need my freedom. i need to be alone. i need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; i need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
    henry miller



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