Irene Park
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“I’m convinced that seeing the bad in the world and in people isn’t difficult or wise or insightful—it’s lazy. Finding the good in every scenario typically takes a lot more work. But the rewards of peace and joy and hope are so worth the effort.”
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
― Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
“It is my duty as a free man to read so I'm not blind being lead around by my nose”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold
“One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing. It is also interesting that thoughts about fishing are often carried on in dialogue form where Hope and Fear—or, many times, two Fears—try to outweigh each other. One”
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
― A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, or a hell of heaven.”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold
“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Upstream: Selected Essays
― Upstream: Selected Essays
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