December 2011
66 posts
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“It could be Paris. It could be Rio de Janeiro. It could be anywhere but home:...”
– Bill Buford, Introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2010 
Dec 30th
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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are...”
– Thomas Merton
Dec 29th
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“No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.”
– J. Maarten Troost, The Sex Lives of Cannibals
Dec 28th
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“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you...”
– E.L. Konigsburg
Dec 28th
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“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dec 28th
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“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (Norweigan Wood)
Dec 27th
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“Experience: the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my god do you learn.”
– C.S. Lewis
Dec 27th
360 notes
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And...”
– Maya Angelou
Dec 22nd
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“She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially,...”
– J.K. Rowling
Dec 21st
363 notes
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“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Dec 21st
195 notes
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“Whether you like it or not, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is...”
– John Wesley
Dec 19th
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“This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Dec 18th
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“We’re making a point to give a shit, because in this world, it’s just crazy...”
– Patrick Stickles
Dec 18th
123 notes
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“Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is...”
– Rumi
Dec 18th
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“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do...”
– Mignon McLaughlin
Dec 18th
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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Dec 18th
193 notes
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“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect...”
– Simone Stolzoff
Dec 17th
100 notes
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich
Dec 17th
50 notes
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“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Dec 17th
224 notes
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“I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward...”
– Rumi
Dec 16th
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