"What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

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(Source: travellinginspiration)

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home."

- James Michener

(Source: littletravelthings)

"I get up every morning and go to bed every night with this feeling that something is missing, but I don’t what and I don’t know why. This emptiness is just killing me, and I can’t do anything, not even cry."

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(Source: quotedocument)

"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."

- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

(Source: thenocturnals)

"It would be easy to say that the pants changed everything that summer. But looking back now I feel like our lives changed because they had to, and that the real magic of the pants was in bearing witness to all of this and in somehow holding us together when it felt like nothing would ever be the same again. Some things never would be. But we know now that no matter how far we traveled on our own separate paths… Somehow we would always find out way back to each other. And with that, we could get through anything. To us. Who we were, and who we are. And who we’ll be. To the pants. And the sisterhood. And this moment, and the rest of our lives. Together and apart."

- The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

(Source: quotedocument)

"The greatest feeling in the world is to be around someone who wants to hold you, wants to kiss your forehead, wants to be around you, wants to call you at night, wants to see you smile. But I think what’s better than that, is finding someone who does it all, because he wants to see you happy."

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(Source: quotedocument)

"I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘Well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach."

- Maya Angelou

(Source: slekes)

"I’m lonely. Why do you think I had to learn to act so independent? I also get mad too quickly, and I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has it’s own zip code. Plus, I get certifiably crazy when I’ve got PMS. You don’t love someone because they’re perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not."

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Jodi Picoult

(Source: grovegrove)