“If you can’t do anything about it then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.”

“Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.”

“I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things that aren’t meant for me.”

Emigration does not only involve leaving behind, crossing water, living amongst strangers, but, also, undoing the very meaning of the world and—at its most extreme—abandoning oneself to the unreal which is the absurd. […] to emigrate is always to dismantle the center of the world, and so to move into a lost, disoriented one of fragments.

People inspire you, or they drain you — pick them wisely

Beware of destination addiction: The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

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