Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.

Alain De Botton
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  1. I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road. - Miyakahi Hayao

  2. While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high. - Whitney Otto

  3. The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her character. And those who have a protector in a husband have,... - Abigail Adams

  4. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu

  5. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. - Anita Desai

More Quotes By Alain De Botton
  1. One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.

  2. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

  3. There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

  4. The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

  5. The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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