56 quotes found
“When you forgive, you love.”
“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
“Common sense is no match for the voice of God.”
“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
“Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”
“When you forgive, you love. And when you love, Gods light shines upon you.”
“What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?”
“I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I requi...”
“make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circu...”
“I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have tho...”
“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all...”
“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. ”
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.”
“The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it...”
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. Thats why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic wave...”
“But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. Thats what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.”
“It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough it is your God-given right to have it... I was a ra...”
“I dont want to know what time it is. I dont want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.”
“I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldnt resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink () That was a very different thing from wanting to die.”
“Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep.”
“Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be especially prevalent among those inclined by temperament or u...”
