On Travelling

With company from Canada here, I feel a little like a tourist some days.  I suppose even life long Cariocas must even feel this way, this city is so vast there is always something new to explore.
Some quotes on travelling:

St. Augustine :
"The world is a book and those who don't travel only read one page."

Mark Twain :
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Cesare Pavese :
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

Martin Buber :
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

And finally, to motivate me on days where learning Portuguese is daunting...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe :
"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."

Comments

[Angel]

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[DRL]

Thanks, I will check that out. :)