Switzerland Quotes

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.
I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
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.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.
That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them.
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.
The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
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Al McGuire
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07 September, 1928
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26 January, 2001
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