Quoted

Just a few quotes I've come across, whether online or from books I've read, that I really enjoy.

“All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are"
-Samuel Johnson

"Life was simpler, certainly, but my view has always been that life's greatest pleasures are simple. Second, it ignored the fact that some values are more important than being comfortable, such as developing a consciousness about the rights and wrongs of the society one lives in and an awareness of what each of us can contribute to improving it. In this sense the sophistication of the West increasingly appears to me to be a veneer, concealing the fact that most of us have lost our understanding of where our communities are heading. We are encouraged to believe in the sanctity of the safe little bubbles we inhabit, to the point where we can imagine no other life, no other possibilities" -Susan Nathan, The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Arab-Israeli Divide

"More often, though, living between two cultures just made me long for refuge in one." -Azadeh Moaveni, Lipstick Jihad