"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes,
but in having new eyes. " -- Marcel Proust
posted by KateOnTheGo at
7:42 PM
Monday, December 31, 2007
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Ever wanted to toss in your great job as a lawyer and travel the world? Well watch and learn as this girl really becomes "Kate On The Go".
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How undeniably true.
Best quote I’ve read all year!
Thanks
Matthew
Getting new eyes would then make you four-eyes....or if you already wore glasses then you'd be six-eyes? hmm....
I like how you're blog is prepping and getting psyched up for your big trip with all these 'voyage' and 'discovery' kinda quotes :)
"The true voyage of discovery starts with ones self" (Ardie 1978)
Have a very happy christmas and an even greater new year!
Rob
Nıce quote.
I think it's genetics and distance --i.e., nature and nurture, inherent and learned. It just makes sense that Down Under folks want to see the rest of the world, based on their British/Anglo Saxon heritage and culture (I'm serious), which tends to value acquisition of knowledge, exploration, individual pursuits, etc., and the fact that the so-called rest of the world (Europe, Asia, South America, Africa) is geographically quite far...my analysis is that these two factors predispose folks to travelling...combined with the "Ulysses" factor (Google it), i.e., what some claim is the innate human urge (stronger in some people than others) to explore, roam, wander...
In the end, though, the most important voyage is indeed the voyage of self-discovery, whether this is accomplished by actual physical travel or not...but that can be a really amazing catalyst to make that it happen!
Great quote, Kate...but, of course, it sometimes takes travelling outside of one's normal realm of experience to get the ability to see things with new eyes...which is what you're gonna do.
Did you know that Proust was very sickly as a child, and apparently spent a good deal of time in bed as a child, reading reading reading. I suspect he traveled a good deal in his head/imagination, because he wasn't physically well. Hence his feeling that travelling is seeing things with new eyes and mind, not necessarily seeing new physical places...
Kate, I guess I am late in the game here. Where are you traveling to? What is the first stop? Maybe once I read some more I can figure that out.
Sounds like a great plan! Great Quote. tdfpo
Damn word verification!
found you- found you! love the quote- where are you going? what you going to be doing? (start a vampire like "accent" now) arrrre you goink to continue bloggink vile you arrrrre travellink ze wurrrld?!?!?
This was on today's desk calendar at work, thought you might be interested:
'A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.'
- George Moore.
ok, that made me laugh. i was browsing through a blog elsewhere and saw a link to yours and OMG, this girl has a countdown and its like 4 days before mine. So that must mean your going to Canada on about the 13th of November.
http://earthboyrod.blogspot.com/
mine has 56 days remaining, i'm so jelous, you have 52
grrrrrrrrr
Nice Quote.....
Hi!I am Rieko.do you remember me?i am Japanese girl who met you at guesthouse in London!We went Italian restaurant together...
Recently i made my blog.And now i know how to use it!!(i am sorry i couldn't understand how to leave comment...I sent you e-mail,but i didn't get any replies.
my blog is http://nittyonn.blogspot.com/
i am very happy if you leave comment on my blog.i will try to write in English!
i also read your blog from now on~
Rieko
Just wanted to stop by and thank you for the "Welcome". I have added your blog to my favorite list and look forward to future reading!
Here's wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
Lori
Absolutely. If we skew everything through a filter (like a "depressing" filter that makes everything seem sad) then it doesn't matter how many new things we see -- we'll still be sad.
But if we change the filter, or better, get rid of the filter, that's when the world starts looking different.
Happy New Year. Thanks for visiting my blog!
What an EXCELLENT quote! :-)
Thanks for your comments at my place!
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