Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
Interpretation
Vacations provide a refreshing break, making the return home feel special.
This quote emphasizes the joy and renewed appreciation we experience when returning home after a vacation. The time spent away allows us to gain new perspectives, and upon returning, we can more fully value the comfort and familiarity of our own space.
In practice
This quote can be used when discussing the emotional benefits of taking travel breaks.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to.
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.
One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
When you #β travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #β rebirth .
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