""You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.""
- Paul Theroux
Awareness
"I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better."
- Paul Theroux
Personal Growth
"Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation– experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way."
- Paul Theroux
Creativity
"Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going."
- Paul Theroux
Insight
"Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation—experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way."
- Paul Theroux
Learning from Mistakes
"We are all capable of change, both in our actions and our hearts."
- Beauty and the Beast
Personal Growth
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."
- Clayton M. Christensen
Personal Growth
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth