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- We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.
- Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is stayed and the horizon itself…
- For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.
- Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
- We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.
- Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it…
- And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts that come to…
- In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
- In an age of acceleration, nothing can be more exhilarating than going slow.
- Every day there are small moments when we have a choice: will we take in more stuff, or just clear our minds out for a…
- In an age of speed, I began to think nothing could be more exhilarating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel…
- In an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
- The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
- We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
- Going nowhere isn’t about turning your back on the world; it’s about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more…
- Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you just as searchingly as you question them. And, as in any…
- We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about…
- What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with…
- I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about…
- Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All…
- More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the…
- I think of myself as living so much outside borders or old categories that I choose as my leaders U2, the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel,…
- In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world,…
- For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.
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