The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
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One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.Ella Maillart
Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
Ella Maillart
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
Ella Maillart
We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.
Ella Maillart
When I started travelling, I was 18 I was instinctively obeying a strong urge. Today I can analyse that urge and see where it has led me.
Ella Maillart
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
Ella Maillart
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