Browsing Topic Best Faraway Places Quotes

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. And I travel a tremendous amount. I’m in New York and California a lot, but then also I like faraway places a lot.

I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I’d close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people’s voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I’d probably never know.

I think that’s an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you’re young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you’ve gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.

The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.

Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?

People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family… I’m talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes