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"Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them."
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"If you accept the situation, you will find strength for strategic adaptation."
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Personal Development
"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."
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Personal Development
"A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weather cock and assumes 10 different positions in a day."
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Personal Development
"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."
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"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."
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Personal Development
"If you don't stay relevant you will be relegated."
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Personal Development
"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."
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Personal Development
"Live a life that you do not need to take a vacation from. Live in a way that makes yearly resolutions unnecessary. Make the kind of choices that leave you Happy and Healthy... where all of your needs are satisfied. Live a life where your only 'wants' are for others to feel as good as you do."
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Personal Development
"There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way."
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"While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world."
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"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."
Culture
"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
Travel
"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."
Storytelling
"Stories are a communal currency of humanity."
Storytelling
"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."
Reading
"My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts."
Learning
"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
Adventure
"For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home."
Detachment
"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."
Culture
"During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide."
Isolation
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