“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
I wish you all very good lives.”
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
I wish you all very good lives.”
― Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination
“Can you see the sunset real good on the West side? You can see it on the East side too.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“No. Grief and anger doesn’t shock me.” Catherine paused. “Rachel, do you remember that day at the convent when we saw the old biplane? Remember what I said?” Rachel laughed without amusement. “I don’t even remember what I said.” “’Who can doubt the presence of God in the sight of men whom He has given wings.’ I recall that so precisely because I’ve had time to consider my error.” She smiled. “God didn’t give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I’ve come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death…is the true measure of the Divine within us. Some, like Crossen, choose to do harm to themselves and others. Others, like Kenji, bear up under their pain and help others to bear it. I used to wonder, why did God give children leprosy? Now I believe: God doesn’t give anyone leprosy. He gives us, if we choose to use it, the spirit to live with leprosy, and with the imminence of death. Because it is in our own mortality that we are most Divine.”
― Moloka'i
― Moloka'i
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir
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