“In a sense, it is the coming back, the return,
which gives meaning to the going forth.
We really don’t know where we’ve been until we come back to where we were –
only where we were may not be as it was
because of who we’ve become, which, after all,
is why we left.”
Northern Exposure
"I had to be hungry - starving! - they decided, so they took me to the restaurant first. "So, wild man, tell us about Africa, " they said, "were you living among savages or what?"
Bush Pigs - Richard Dooling
"When I got back, I found out that I was no longer a round peg in a round hole, but a square peg trying to fit a hole that didn't seem to be there at all"
New Zealand aid worker
"My advice about 'coming' home? Don't."
Japanese businessman
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