Nicolas Bouvier

Le voyage - intérieur ou extérieur - n'a pas de sens s'il n'est pas justement un chambardement constant des attitudes que l'on avait au départ. Ou un ajustement. On ne voyage pas pour confirmer un système, mais pour en trouver un meilleur, auquel on fera bien d'ailleurs de ne pas adhérer trop longtemps. Ce qui importe c'est le passage.

Nicolas Bouvier, Le vide et le plein

On trying

"Day 51

The only real failure is the failure to try. And the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment. As we always must. We came here and we tried. All of us in our own different ways. Can we be blamed for feeling that we're too old to change? Too scared of disappointment to start it all again? We get up in the morning, we do our best. Nothing else matters.

From the diary of a character of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Today on BBC...

... there was an article about the horrors of wildlife trafficking.

There was this image...............................................



"A tiger cub rescued from smugglers in Thailand en route to China."



Martha Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. (...) You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. (...) [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.