"So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything."

Source : "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

Jonah Lehrer

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“My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.”
“I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, Iâ€™d rather remain silent”

Source : Arthur Rimbaud, Louise Varèse (2011). “A Season in Hell and the Drunken Boat”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
“What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like anyone else I make my inner journeys that I can only measure by my emotions, and express very obliquely and circuitously in what I write. ... Arguments from one's own privileged experience are bad and reactionary arguments.”
“But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.”
“I have the most amazing support network around me.”

Source : "Jenny Frost: I'm sure Mum is watching over me and shaping my life". www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2010.
“Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?”
“Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?”
“Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.”

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