"Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home."

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Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation

Isabella Bird

#Appreciation Quotes #Travel Quotes #Home Quotes

“As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.”
“I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.”
“There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.”
“Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.”
“The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.”

Source : "The Unauthorized Biography of David Rockefeller", www.theeventchronicle.com. March 30, 2017.
“I have this mistress: show business.”
“Remove the heavy clothing of your self-definition. You are not woman, you are not American, you are not son, you are not spiritual seeker, executive, teacher, unemployed, you are not wounded, you are not highly respected, you are not productive, you are not blah-blah-blah-blah.”
“I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.”

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