Bill Lively

“The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.”
― May Sarton, Recovering: A Journal

“My heart goes out to the playing and singing folk, the folk who are forever on the roads. Life is change; and to be seeing new wonders every day—the thrown sea, the silver rush of the meadow, the lights in distant towns—is to be living, and not merely existing. I pity the man who is content to stay always in the place where his mother dropped him; that is, unless his thoughts wander. For one might sit on a midden and dream stars!”
― Joseph Campbell, Mearing Stones Leaves from my Note-Book on Tramp in Donegal

“The nationality you are born into is probably the most influencing factor fate hands a man in his life.”
― Sean Michael Hayes, Five Weeks in the Amazon