“It is the destiny of children of spirit to soar too close to the sun and fall no matter how many times they are warned of the danger. Some will make it, but many do not.”
― Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
― Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
“Matters of immense import may depend on such issues, but we can never do more than guess the outcomes of the roads we do not take.”
― Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
― Heroes: The Greek Myths Reimagined
“in the desert of life, the fool travels alone and the wise by caravan.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Would a musician feel flattered by the loud applause of an audience if he knew that they were nearly all deaf, and that, to conceal their infirmity, they set to work to clap vigorously as soon as ever they saw one or two persons applauding?”
― The Wisdom of Life
― The Wisdom of Life
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.”
― Hell's Angels
― Hell's Angels
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