“ I want to move to the mountains. I want to live in a little cabin next to a towering, tenacious mountain fourteen thousand feet above sea level and eat a bowl of raisin bran every morning in its shado… Jess Riley
“ Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them...But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that… Morgan Matson
“ But I'm not running away. I'm running toward... toward adventure, toward discovery, toward diversity. And while I was in Mexico I discovered something intruiging: Once I leave the U.S., I am not bound… Rita Golden Gelman
“ Life is fast, and I’ve found it’s easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I’m slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and res… Andrew Forsthoefel
“ Somewhere along the line, the crazy youth hostelers I kept seeing everywhere stopped looking so crazy. Jen Malone
“ I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see. Elizabeth Wein
“ It’s hard to go. It’s scary and lonely…and half the time you’ll be wondering why the hell you’re in Cincinnati or Austin or North Dakota or Mongolia or wherever your melodious little finger-plucking h… Cheryl Strayed
“ A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love. Molly Friedenfeld
“ True kindness is an anchor that drops deep into the heart and you feel it while it’s dropping. Meanwhile, untrue kindness is merely a condition of the face. C. JoyBell C.
“ Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the Gautama Buddha
“ To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions. Gerard de Marigny
“ While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now. Sharon Salzberg
“ The sacred stillness of your brilliant hearthas as the myriad wonders masqueraded.But if you knew this secret from the start,then you'd have quit this Game before you played it. Eric Micha'el Leventhal
