Ella Maillart Quotes
Top 31 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ella Maillart
Ella Maillart Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth.
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise.
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.