longing to travel while you are already traveling is, I admit, a kind of greedy madness

You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

Your fear is just as boring as mine is. Everyone's got the same one. It is not precious. It is not special. It is not singular to you. It's just the one we all got wired with when we came in. Focus on your unique qualities that deserve to be celebrated and put fear back in its place. Don't listen to it. Onward.

We can change our wives,” he said. “We can change our jobs, our nationalities and even our religions, but we can never change our team.

What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.