"To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change."

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Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

Charles Horton Cooley

#Travel Quotes #Self Quotes #Environment Quotes

“God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.”
“We love God with our mind by taking the time to fill our mind with the Word.”
“But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.”

Source : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54
“Beginning with exercise, the best training program available for real results is circuit training.”
“Who could ever tell a story complete?”

Source : Leah Hager Cohen (2014). “No Book but the World: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin
“The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.”
“Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?”
“I was hopeless, now I'm on Hope Road.”

Source : Song: Lost Ones

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