" True friends don’t say goodbye, they just take extended leaves of absences from each other. "

— Unknown

" To hurt is as human as to breathe. "

— J.K. Rowling

" Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. "

— Henry David Thoreau

" The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. "

— Albert Einstein

" The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have. "

— Unknown

" Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life. "

— Michael Palin