Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Inspirational #Funny #Travel
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Hills #Barren #Vulture
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty as a cathedral, and the arch of each window as supple as a bow. Its corridors were the passages of my own brain.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Dream #Exercise #Brain
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Land #Tree #Doe
Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Taken #Swallowing #Taste Buds
A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Travel #Sleep #Night
miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.
-- Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n

#Miracle #Calamity #Paid

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
If you're a guy, you have absolutely no idea what's going on at any time in the relationship, ever. Here's what you know: you know when you're getting laid, and you know when it's all over. Those are the only two things you're aware of.
One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n famous quotes

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