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  • The Book of Searching, or A bunch of quotes that may make you think about why we travel!

    "I cannot die before I set foot on these untrodden shores that rise from within my heart". Columbus by Nikos Kazantzakis In a previous post I gathered together my top travel books to read and while those books are specifically about travelling and the misadventures one can get into, I thought I'd take a look at other writings, fiction and non-fiction, to see what various authors have said about travelling. I found a common theme: many of these writers seem to seek themselves in other places, faces, and experiences; searching for themselves through travel. So below, in no particular order, are a bunch of quotes on travel that will hopefully inspire folks to get back out there, experience the world again, and reflect on the why of travelling. "At last, in those far off deserts, I finally knew that the observer is part of the subject..." Lawrence, The Uncrowned King of Arabia by Michael Asher From the opening pages of Michael Asher's biography of T.E. Lawrence. A good reminder, not only of our responsibilities to each other and the places we visit when travelling, but of travel as search for oneself. "Travelling and migration are evocative symbols of spiritual passage." Holy War by Karen Armstrong An unlikely line from a book called Holy War (which is about the crusades and their impact on today's world) but it makes sense when you think about travelling as a yearning for experience outside of the everyday. "Out of the sea, as if Homer himself had arranged it for me, the islands bobbed up, lonely, deserted, mysterious in the fading light. I couldn't ask for more, nor did I want anything more. I had everything (anyone) could desire...I knew too that I might never have it again." The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller A bittersweet reminder that experience can be beautiful and fulfilling at the moment but fleeting, so savour the moment. "I stopped by a red front door and felt an intense longing to spend the rest of my life there." The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton Who hasn't visited a place, humble or grand, and thought that they wanted to stay there forever. "I look upon it (travel) as a spiritual journey...It brings us back to ourselves" Notebooks 1935-1951 By Albert Camus Camus' dourness mars the larger quote from which I've taken this but he seems to be saying that there is a need for travel to fix a perceived absence in oneself. A remark that I keep finding in other writers when they speak to travel There was nowhere to go but everywhere so just keep on rolling under the stars." On the Road by Jack Kerouac Wise advice to end on. And I leave you with one last quote: "...trust in the spirit of the journey..." - An Unexpected Light by Jason Elliot Why do you travel?

  • 5 books on Job Searching: Books that will help you land a position, even in pandemic times

    help even one person: Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by Bill Burnett & Dave life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One by Jenny Blake Blake writes that pivoting is a crucial the Pivot Method and shows how to take small, smart steps, leveraging your strengths and interests to move

  • 5 beautiful bookshops around the world

    But what they all have in common is a love of gathering and making available treasures to hold, sift Rowling's moving staircases at Hogwarts in the Harry Potter series. call it "Carousel of Light" or "Bookman's Carousel" (Romanian speakers can correct me here), it is a lovely

  • Hey, its' World Chocolate Day!

    Bake a cookie for someone you love today! Do you love chocolate? Any favourite books on chocolate?

  • Happy Father's Day!

    Lots of love to all the dad's out there!

  • Best selling e-books

    I don't own or sell e-books as I still love the feel and atmosphere of holding and reading a physical

  • I really am reading these books!

    hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”

  • NY Times Monthly Bestsellers in Business Books (May 2021)

    people can reduce both noise and bias, and so make far better decisions. 3: Dare to Lead by Brené Brown Moves put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead. 4: Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe Moving

  • Top 4 Books About Disease

    and the few survivors now have to also face real demons...what's next murder hornets...oh wait... 3: Love rage so against a backdrop of strife and disease, do the main characters come to believe that it is love Minus the widespread panic, does this sound familiar?

  • New York Times Bestsellers in genre fiction (July 4, 2021)

    In Paperback: FBI thriller Daylight by David Baldacci moves one spot to number 7.

  • 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world...Tennyson

    clutter and partly to share wonderful ideas and themes and settings and characters from the books I've loved

  • Reading list - October 2020

    After all I love reading too going from collector to seller was a bit of a process and a story for another

  • The top 8, most interesting Libraries in the world

    The New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA The main branch on Fifth Avenue boasts a lovely marble

  • Top 7 travel books to read while you can’t travel

    high school reading on you might backfire but this classic tale of Odysseus trying to get back to his love Did this specific event happen in the way Chatwin tells us and does it really matter since we get to by Anthony Bourdain – RIP Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris – A year spent

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