You must never take a direct route to your destination

-Vikas Swarup

Memento mori. 

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Aldous Huxley 

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. 

-Herman Melville

Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. 

-Rachel Carson

The final magnificent spark of a firework is only the last seconds of the fall. Though it's invisible to most, its the way up that creates all the impact.

-Charlotte Eriksson

There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless. 

-Simone Beauvoir

In every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

-John Muir

Being loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-Lao Tzu

Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away. 

-Sarah Kay

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams. 

-Salvador Dali