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"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."
"Discipline is needed in our pursuit."
"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
"You can touch the moon if you really want to do it."
"A job should only be a stepping stone to being your own boss."
Explore more quotes by Ella Maillart
"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
"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."
"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."
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
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