We must develop a deeper interest and gr... by Ella Maillart

People Life Writer explorer photographer

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

- Ella Maillart

Other quotes by Ella Maillart

Dreams Work

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

- Ella Maillart

Time World

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

- Ella Maillart

Emotions Words

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

- Ella Maillart

First Time

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

- Ella Maillart

Feeling World

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

- Ella Maillart

Spiritual

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

- Ella Maillart

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