“But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
“People talk about how wonderful the world seems to children, and that's true enough. But children think they will grow into it and understand it, and I know very well that I will not, and would not if I had a dozen lives.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.”
― My Life in France
― My Life in France
“Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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