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"Simply by living life you will gain new experiences that are uniquely your own. Your vantage points along your journey will help you form your perceptions, grow your influence, and ground you in a wisdom which can only be gained from having been there and having done it."

"If you're going on a journey take a rainbow with you because you never know who you are going to meet."

"A mark.... is left when you complete your internal quest when you leave........"

"They were at the end of their journey, but as far as ever, it seemed, from the end of their quest."

"The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself!"

"I am going and I don't know where I am going. I leave you searching for answers. When I get there, if there is any way to come back either spiritually or physically or through a revelation, I will let you know what I have experienced. Of course some will not believe me or the one I send."

"Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I've loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it's other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers " they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I've grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I'm trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it's too late."
Explore more quotes by Pearl S. Buck

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free."

"We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave."

"You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea."

"Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together."

"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work."

"We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country."

"To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!' (Buck, 57)"
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