strange place

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, Book 1

I'm an adventurer

"After all, what he had always wanted was just that: to know new places. Even if he never got to the Pyramids, he had already traveled farther than any shepard he knew. Oh, if they only knew how different things are just two hours by ship from where they are, he thought... As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in a quest for his treasure.

'I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure,' he said to himself."

-Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, Book 1

we lose heart

The road is difficult not because of the deep river and high mountains that bar the way, but because we lose heart when we think of the river and the mountains.
- Vietnamese proverb, passed on by teacher Lesley Clear to her "Teaching English Internationally" Education students at UC Irvine