
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World
― Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.”
― Venetia
― Venetia

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
― The Angel's Game
― The Angel's Game
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