Travelling

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely in those accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Mark Twain, Innocents Abroad

There is a change that takes place in a man or a woman in transit. You see this at its most exaggerated on a ship when whole personalities change. John Steinbeck

You cannot travel the path before you have become the path itself

Buddha

Tourists don't know where they've been, I thought. Travelers don't know where they 're going.

Paul Theroux

Sightseeing was a way of passing time, but ... It was activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in a stage sets from which all the actors had fled. Ibid

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings 1894–1962

somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond

any experience, your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself as fingers,

you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and

my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower imagines

the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility: whose texture

compels me with the color of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens; only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

Word of The Day

ham·string

 [ham-string] noun, verb, -strung, -string·ing.

noun

1.

(in humans and other primates) any of the tendons thatbound the ham of the knee.

2.

(in quadrupeds) the great tendon at the back of the hock.

verb (used with object)

3.

to disable by cutting the hamstring or hamstrings; cripple.

4.

to render powerless or useless; thwart: Their efforts werehamstrung by stubborn pride.

Capital letters

Start names of people, places, days and months with a capital letter!

Matthew Arnold, 'Self-Dependence'

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

"Judgement is forced upon us by experience. He that reads many books must compare one opinion or one style with another; and when he compares, must necessarily distinguish, reject, and prefer." ( Samuel Johnson) The end and aim of education through letters is to get this experience.

I was born when she kissed me

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.