“We try so hard to hide everything we're really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”
― Maybe Someday
― Maybe Someday
“To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have sought the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“I’m not a foreigner because I haven’t been praying to return safely home, I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner because we are all travelling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner because, when I asked, I received. When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.”
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“Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.”
― Maybe Someday
― Maybe Someday
“Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity—pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion.”
― The War of the Worlds
― The War of the Worlds
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