“As a rider, you must slowly and methodically show your horse what is appropriate. You also have to discourage what's inappropriate, not by making the inappropriate impossible, but by making it difficult so that the horse himself chooses appropriate behavior. You can't choose it for him; you can only make it difficult for him to make the wrong choices. If, however, you make it impossible for him to make the wrong choices, you're making war.”
― The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
― The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
“I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.”
― Through Gates of Splendor
― Through Gates of Splendor
“They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.”
― The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
― The Faraway Horses: The Adventures and Wisdom of One of America's Most Renowned Horsemen
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― White Mountain
― White Mountain
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