"Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands."

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Richard Francis Burton

#Inspirational Quotes #Travel Quotes #Journey Quotes

“The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.”

Source : "The one question about life that still baffles him". Interview with Jenn Selby, www.independent.co.uk. January 28, 2015.
“Worrying too much about other people's ears and not my own, I lost my way.”
“I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.”
“The seasons, like greater tides, ebb and flow across the continents. Spring advances up the United States at the average rate of about fifteen miles a day. It ascends mountainsides at the rate of about a hundred feet a day. It sweeps ahead like a flood of water, racing down the long valleys, creeping up hillsides in a rising tide. Most of us, like the man who lives on the bank of a river and watches the stream flow by, see only one phase of the movement of spring. Each year the season advances toward us out of the south, sweeps around us, goes flooding away to the north.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead
“It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.”
“If it weren't for my breast cancer, I wouldn't be a 'Today' host. After I got better, I talked to my boss about working on the show. Six months before, I'd have been terrified to go in there and ask for what I wanted. But after what I'd been through, how could I be scared of being told no?”
“Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.112, Hachette UK
“Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.”

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