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Travel brings you home
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence is the definition of happiness, and travel stretches them.Loading…
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence is the definition of happiness, and travel stretches them.I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time.I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.Life is short and the world is wide.Travel is rebellion in its purest form.Wanderlust: a strong desire to travel, from the German for a lust to wander.Fernweh: a longing for far-off places, the opposite of homesickness.Resfeber: the restless race of a traveller's heart before the journey begins.Sonder: the realisation that every passer-by is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.Coined by John Koenig
World · Around the World
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Hygge: the warmth of a small, well-lit room while the weather outside does its worst.Dolce far niente: the sweetness of doing nothing, best practised on a terrace after lunch.Sobremesa: the conversation that keeps you at the table long after the food is gone.Saudade: the presence of an absence, a longing for something that may never return.Ikigai: the reason you get up in the morning, worth searching for at home and abroad.Shinrin-yoku: forest bathing, the practice of walking slowly among trees with no goal at all.Wabi-sabi: finding beauty in what is imperfect, weathered and temporary.Meraki: doing something with soul, creativity and love, leaving a piece of yourself in the work.Ubuntu: I am because we are.Southern African philosophy
Africa · Africa
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Hakuna matata: there are no worries.Pole pole: slowly, slowly. The pace that gets you up Kilimanjaro.Inshallah: if it is meant to be. A useful attitude when the bus is four hours late.Mañana does not always mean tomorrow. Sometimes it just means not today.Tranquilo: relax, it will happen, and worrying will not speed it up.Latin American saying
Americas · The Americas
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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