Leon Logothetis, a former stockbroker, travels around the world relying only on the kindness of strangers for food, shelter, and gas.
His book The Kindness Diaries documents his trip. Leon also shares his journey as part of a Netflix documentary television series.
Below are the 13 quotes Leon references in his journey
- You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith – Mary Manin Morrissey
- All for one and one for all – Alexander Dumas
- If your music be the food of love play on – William Shakespeare
- The key is to keep company only with those who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best – Epictetus
- Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors – African proverb
- When the world says give up, hope whispers try it one more time. Unknown
- What this world needs is a new kind of army: The army of the kind – Cleveland Amory
- If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. E.W. Howe
- Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- You can’t run away from trouble. There ain’t no place that far – Uncle Remus
- Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished – Nelson Mandela
- There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face – Bernard Williams
- A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it – George A. Moore
