Quote by Greg F. Gifune

“But our uneasy, unsettled feeling doesn't go away. I don't think we'll ever be able to reach our Shangri-La, however, I know it exists…

— Naoki Higashida

“I was becoming aware that a good life was not some Shangri-La waiting to be stumbled upon. One constructed it from the materials at…

— Peter Korn

“But here, at Shangri–La, all was in deep calm. In a moonless sky the stars were lit to the full, and a pale blue…

— James Hilton

“They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.”

— Laurie Gough

“If you dare not lose sight of the present shore, you will never find new land.”

— Swee Chiow

“But when we are searching for an example of what we no longer have, we see it everywhere.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“It makes sense that if you stand almost daily in the middle of a perfect crescent of shore, with a vista open to eternity,…

— Claire Messud

“It’s not always enough to go looking for the place we belong. Sometimes we need to make that place.”

— Sangu Mandanna

“If you don't know what you are searching for, rest assured it exists, and most probably within you. You are searching because it exists....”

— Indira Sirigiri

“If we're not trying to get to any particular place, we can't ever really be lost. We're just exploring.”

— Cora Carmack Finding It

“That was the trouble. The land is too big out there, and after a while it starts to swallow you up. I reached a…

— Paul Auster

“explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least where it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can't…

— Annie Dillard