From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. Ella Maillart More Quotes by Ella Maillart More Quotes From Ella Maillart You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. Ella Maillart journey inspirational travel It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. Ella Maillart journey self faces We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life. Ella Maillart boards understanding people When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see. Ella Maillart certain literature looks The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. Ella Maillart horizon distance talking 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. Ella Maillart oneness journey feelings I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. Ella Maillart desert good-life green 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 artist blessed children The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. Ella Maillart sea inspirational funny 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. Ella Maillart journey perfect character There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. Ella Maillart journey literature men Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. Ella Maillart desire adventure travel I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end. Ella Maillart ends world travel Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. Ella Maillart able literature You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat. Ella Maillart climbing hiking boys One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. Ella Maillart illusion done mind I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. Ella Maillart i-can substance feelings One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. Ella Maillart routine imagination running 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. Ella Maillart woven dying running I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? Ella Maillart cutting rose men
