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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

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"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."- Miriam Beard

Today's the day! I'm leaving for Nepal in a few hours. I haven't had the greatest start to this adventure- managed to get sick days before departure, but I'm mentally willing myself to get well as soon as possible. Let's hope that my determination (and the medication I'm taking) will be effective enough to keep me from missing a single amazing moment.

Namaste!

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Coningsby: There is nothing I should like so much as to travel.

The Stranger: You are traveling. Every moment is travel, if understood.

-Benjamin Disraeli

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"If what one finds is made of pure matter, it will never spoil. And one can always come back. If what you had found was only a moment of light, like the explosion of a star, you would find nothing on return." -Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." - Buddha

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"He who binds to himself a joy

Doth the winged life destroy;

But he who kisses the joy as it flies

Lives in eternity's sun rise."

- William Blake

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"Tourists don't know where they've been. Travelers don't know where they're going."

-Paul Theroux

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"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller

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"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again, we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." -Jack Kerouac

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"Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and I remember more than I have seen." -Benjamin Disraeli

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"It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary." - Paulo Coelho

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"Laughter is an instant vacation." -Milton Berle

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"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." -Martin Buber

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"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles." - Tim Cahill

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"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time."

-Sir John Lubbock

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"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." - Robert Louis Stevenson

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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, & narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain

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Because I'm a true believer that all things happen for a reason...

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." - Douglas Adams

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In honor of sailing...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

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"Adventure is a path. Real adventure- self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of human kind- and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black and white." - Mark Jenkins