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"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
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"You were endowed with the treasure of time so that you could buy greatness with it."
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"There is worth everywhere and in everything we see."
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"The value of a substance is the product of the time spent to achieve it."
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"You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you."
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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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"Always spend your time adding value to your life."
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"Time is the wealth through which everything comes into existence."
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"Too many people die early, either tragically or natural death, because they did not treat their lives with any sense of value."
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"If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe."
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"Water is gold in the desert."
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Explore more quotes by Ella Maillart
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
Life
"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
Life
"There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men."
Man
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
Spiritual
"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."
Relationship
"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
Perspective
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
Friendship
"Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of."
Travel
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
Values
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
Self-Awareness
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