Self-illusion
“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
— Rashedur Ryan Rahman
Image: Carli Jeen
Tag: depth of life
To Belong Nowhere
“To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.”
― Leah Stewart, The Myth of You and Me
Image: The Winding Road – Rob Bates
Nostalgia in Reverse
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
Image: Anisur Rahman
Wanderer
“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess
Image: Lucija Ros
If We’re Meant to Stay in One Place
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.”
― Rachel Wolchin
Image: Get Green – Blake Cheek
Vigor to the Mind
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” ~ Seneca
Image: KAL VISUALS
Greatest Tragedy
“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”
― K.L. Toth
Image: Annie Spratt
Different Ways of Getting to People
“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
Image: Amy Elting
Deal with it Alone
“Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share the pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
Image: Todd Diemer
You Really Didn’t See the Sadness
“You really didn’t see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn’t it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves
Image: Pedro Gabriel Miziara