top of page
Exlpore more Humanity quotes

"The beautiful truth about service is that we are afforded countless opportunities to be its vehicle. Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve. From simply letting someone into your lane in traffic, to holding a door, to a kind smile. This is all service. I am humbled by this simple truth. We are given the opportunity to express the most meaningful use of our lives every time we interact with another sentient being."

"For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most."

"Without love, the world would be a heap of ruins."

"In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise."

"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."
Explore more quotes by Ella Maillart

"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

"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."

"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."

"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."

"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."

"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"

"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."

"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."
bottom of page