“I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times.”
"Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. The journey changes you; it should change you."
- Anthony Bourdain
Transformation
"Travel isn't always pretty. It isn't always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that's okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind."
- Anthony Bourdain
Transformation
"I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn."
- Anthony Bourdain
Self-awareness
"In loving someone as they are, we open ourselves to the possibility of true happiness."
- Beauty and the Beast
Happiness
"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."
- W. P. Kinsella
Happiness
"You’re only one workout away from a good mood."
- Health Coach Maria Marlowe
Happiness
"Friday sees more smiles than any other day of the workweek!"
- Kate Summers
Happiness
"Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss."
- S. O’ Sade
Happiness