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Christmas … is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

— Freya Stark

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

The Journey's Echo (1963)

To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels (1934)

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

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