“A girl who travels will need someone that questions her, not too little, and not too much. Shell need someone to read her, but also really listen to her. Because shell want to do the same. Shell wa...”

“If we love someone deeply, be they friends, family or lovers, dont treat the relationship like a playground game of back and forth or tit for tat. See it as a loving connection and let that be the ...”

“The old you has been left behind to leave place for the new you. And it will be a new you that your new friends will admire, that your old friends will struggle to understand and that your true fri...”

“A man or woman who travels in the end will never be kept. But if you understand that person well enough, theyll always be by your side. They might have forgotten where their home is in this world -...”

“If you cannot afford yourself any luxuries for the time being, at least offer yourself the one priceless luxury no one can take away from you your time”

“As any distance we take from things give us an outside perspective, so does taking a geographical distanceoffering us a new vantage point over our lives.”

“I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)”

“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.”

“I dont ever remember being afraid of oldness.There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I...”

“Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.”

“We can never skip growing old. As we grow older, we understand old things and things of old times better!”

“The picture enclosed here is of a hibiscus that has been flowering in the parlor window one bloom at a time for what seems like a year or more. Its getting to where I dont remember when there wasnt...”

“Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.”