Erick Paniagua

“Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild