The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I, if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.