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Travel is the discovery of truth; an affirmation of the promise that human kind is far more beautiful than it is flawed. With each trip comes a new optimism that where there is despair and hardship, there are ideas and … Continue reading →

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided. ― J.K. Rowling

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ― Maya Angelou

Getting lost is just another way of saying “going exploring.” ― Justina Chen

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them. ― Elizabeth Taylor

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements. ― Derrick A. Bell

Write down 10 things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it. ― Steve Chandler

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind. ― Orson Scott Card

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly–we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target … Continue reading →

I must have flowers, always, and always. ― Claude Monet

You cannot sink someone else’s end of the boat and still keep your own afloat.–Charles Bower

Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest. ― Lincoln Patz

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. ― Kate Douglas Wiggin

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you … Continue reading →

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ― Marcel Proust

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ― Mary Anne Radmacher

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. ― Gustave Flaubert

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there. ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. ― Michael Palin

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.- E. Joseph Cossman

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.- Lao-tzu

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. ― Jarod Kintz

Butterflies are self propelled flowers. –R.H. Heinlein

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. ― Anaïs Nin

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. ― Haruki Murakami

This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. Henry Ward Beecher

Dream Big and Dare To Fail –Norman Vaughan

There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. ― Frances Clark

It is precisely the possibility of realizing a dream that makes life interesting. –Paulo Coelho

From the very beginning perplexing and wandering from one ocean to another an everlasting wander ― Rixa White

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure. ― Antonio Porchia

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. –Albert Schweitzer

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. ― Mollie Marti

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night. ― Haruki Murakami

Life in us is like the water in a river. ― Henry David Thoreau

To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles. ― T.F. Hodge This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php

Don’t dare to be different, dare to be yourself – if that doesn’t make you different then something is wrong. ― Laura Baker