Gisele Bundchen Quotes

Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.

I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.

After I finished high school I went to Hong Kong and Thailand and spent some time there. Just to get that whole experience of being out of the bubble that I was in from high school in Vancouver, to be able to travel around and be on your own was an amazing experience.

Go and experience life the way that someone else might experience it. Maybe you'll find meaning in a different corner of your brain. The fact that it changed doesn't negate the fact that it ever mattered.

At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

Travel for me is all about transformation, and I'm fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they'd have written off not a month before.

New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

travel is compost for the mind

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

When you #‎ travel , you experience, in a very practical way, the act of #‎ rebirth .

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

Asking the questions - that's what changes lives. Every cell in your body is awake with inquiry. And you cannot believe the old thoughts again.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

Once we go beyond this and start to open up and question and experience things in a different way, we can move forward.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more.

Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.