” One step a little further away, a wide movement, going away in a certain moment. A movement able to calm agitation, suggest how to challenge the sensation of absurdity and lead to unexpected joy. It will not always be a very long journey to the other side of the world, even if sometimes it must be so. It could also be getting lost for some moments in the town where you have always lived.

F. Pace, Controvento (my translation)

“A wise traveler never despises his own country”.

C. Goldoni, Pamela

“Seagulls with no ideal destination, who travel just for travelling, never land anywhere and they are slow. Those who aim for perfection can land anywhere in a flash, even without starting a journey”.

R. Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (my translation)

“If you want to see, eyes are not enough. If you want to see, you have to touch things close up, so closely to feel them inside you, to feel what they feel”.

M. Corradini, La repubblica delle farfalle (my translation)

“The trees never meet but people do”

Namibia proverb

“Places and cities are different also depending on the age and the stage of our own lives. For this reason those who always live in the same city may not ever change”

F. Volo, Il giorno in più (my translation)

“I have always thought that we can survive better, if there is not just one direction but different ones”

L. Ronconi (my translation)

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”

Laozi

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready”

H.D. Thoreau

“Having a world is something more than just being in the world”

U. Galimberti, Il corpo (my translation)

“Maps are not meant to guide you but to let you dream the journey in the months before leaving”

P. Rumiz, Trans Europa Express (my translation)

“We are free to go where we wish and to be what we are”

R. Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull