1,957 quotes found
“Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. “Is it so terrible to believe in something?”
“Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of...”
“Wonder is the starter kit for innovation”
“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was barely even skin to pinch, and every time I held them, I worried I would snap them i...”
“For adventure is not outside a man it is within.”
“What is the universe but a lot of wavesAnd a craving desire is a wave…”
“The “right time’ is now. Go onward and fulfill your dream.”
“Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.”
“…those who are the most confident are often those who don't have any fun.”
“…for exploring beyond the boundaries that I had been taught to stay within.”
“…because he was far more interested in allowing his disciples to cultivate a relationship and trust with and in him than leading them to a place of "arrival".”
“It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prev...”
“I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certai...”
“Don’t worry, Miss Brielle. To be honest, the ones with a little bit of crazy have always been my favorite.”
“It’s the unknown that draws people.”
“I remember when I was twenty-five,” he said. “No client comes to you when you’re twenty-five. It’s like when you are looking for a doctor. You don’t want the new one that just graduated. You don’t ...”
“When I opened my eyes, I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that ...”
“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
“If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.”
“None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hi...”
