chance encounters on your travel

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― Augustine of Hippo Her name is Iwona Fluda. She is a creative, restless soul, which loves to be in motion. Very much involved in everything she does. Believes that every single person can make the world a better place. Called as a “rover” by some people. Attentive listener. Committed volunteer. Geographer. Occasional photographer. Motto: ‘The journey is better than the destination.’

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“My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” Steve Jobs

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Hearts <3 “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.” ―  Roman Payne

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Windows

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Photo of the Day 13: Lamp

“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel “You are the community now. Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up.” ― Gautama Buddha “You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts; expose and share them freely!” ― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

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Photo of the Day 12: Dream of flying

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=updsn2T9Rjk

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Photo of the Day 11: Window

“It is raining at the top of my roof and I'am inside my blanket in this chilling night with an open window, missing my love and listning the rain singing a lullaby to me.” ― Shabnam Sinha

“The window of life is mirrored. And tinted. And shattered. And borrowed.” ― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

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Photo of the Day 10: Bicycle

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."

Emo Philips

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race."

H. G. Wells

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"C is for cookie, that's good enough for me."

"Me wasn’t born with name Cookie Monster. It just nickname dat stuck. Me don’t remember me real name… maybe it was Sidney?"

"Friend something better than chocolate ice cream… Maybe friend somebody you give up last cookie for."

"Chocolate chip cookie important to me… It mean whole lot to me… Om nom nom nom."

"Me Cookie Monster. That all there is to it. Me love to eat cookie. Sometimes eat whole, sometimes me chew it."

"Who care if me eat carrot or collard greens? Me also like broccoli and lettuce and lima beans. Me still Cookie Monster. That not a sham."

"Me want cookie!"

—Cookie Monster

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Photo of the Day 8: Birthday

"Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new." Sammy Hagar "There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." William Barclay

"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love."

Gabriel Byrne

"I believe in angels Something good in everything I see" ABBA

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Photo of the Day 7: Love

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

Ferdinand Foch

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“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.” ― H.L. Mencken It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man  “NEWSPAPER: What great paper is the Earth; what a typeface is the Day; what ink is the Night! – Everyone prints, everyone reads; no one understands.” ― Xavier Forneret

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Would you like a cup of coffee? :)

“It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.” ― Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

“- What do you want? - Just coffee. Black - like my soul.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“I told the waitress I wanted some coffee. She asked if I wanted leaded of unleaded, so I had to leave the restaurant, because I quit drinking gasoline years ago.” ― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

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Photo of the Day 6: Sad sad world...

“Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.” ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist “Man's feeling of homelessness, of alienation has been intensified in the midst of a bureaucratized, impersonal mass society. He has come to feel himself an outsider even within his own human society. He is trebly alienated: a stranger to God, to nature, and to the gigantic social apparatus that supplies his material wants. But the worst and final form of alienation, toward which indeed the others tend, is man's alienation from his own self. In a society that requires of man only that he perform competently his own particular social function, man becomes identified with this function, and the rest of his being is allowed to subsist as best it can - usually to be dropped below the surface of consciousness and forgotten.” ― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

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Photo of the Day 5: Memories

“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

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"A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later." ― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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Photo of the Day 4: The ballet shoes

 “It might have all the same; you never can tell what's magic.” ― Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes