The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

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"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."

- Ella Maillart

Awareness

"One of the main points about traveling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."

- Ella Maillart

Connection to Earth

"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."

- Ella Maillart

Reflection

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