There is a literary magazine I've often enjoyed titled The Sun. It is filled with poetry, short stories, Reader's Write, photographs, and interviews with interesting people affecting our world. On the last page they choose a theme and quote writers and philosophers, and it is this page I've turned to first, loving the commentaries on many of life's themes.
I just found out they have a book of these Sunbeams that take you "on a journey through innocence and experience, love and loss, disillusionment and awakening. Along the way you'll find words that inspire as well as challenge; that celebrate the beauty around us without ignoring the injustices in our midst."
Here are a few I recently re-discovered:
Wandering reestablishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
-Anatole France
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.
-Freya Stark
People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.
-Dagobert D. Runes
If you lived in your heart, you'd be home by now.
-anonymous
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