Leave It
“A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.”
– Henry Rollins
Tag: Wanderlust
Learn From Them
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
– Anthony Bourdain
Image: Sets of Three – Dikaseva
They Travel Alone
“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone because they reflect more.”
Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787
— Thomas Jefferson (The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 11: January 1787 to August 1787)
Image: Amanda Phung
Wander
“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
— Roman Payne
Image: Priscilla Du Preez
Things Change
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
– Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
Heartsick
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
Lasts a Lifetime
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”
― Mineko Iwasaki
Image: Benjamin Voros
Cruel Sense of Humor
“Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing, you always wanted at the worst time possible.”
― Lisa Kleypas
Image: confession – Kinga Cichewicz
Your Life was Changing
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing. ..”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
Image: Horváth Attila
Hearts can Break
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.”
– Stephen King
Image: Adrian Swancar