"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."
-Paul Theroux
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"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.“
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"Travel is glamorous only in retrospect."
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"Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going."
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"The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do."
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"The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'"
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"Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places."
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"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
-Virginia Woolf
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
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"As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
-Pythagoras
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"I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
-Lana Del Rey
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"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."
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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Earhart
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