Brandon

“The very thing that gives you pleasure today will give you pain tomorrow, or it will leave you, so its absence will give you pain. And what is often referred to as love may be pleasurable and exciting for a while, but it is an addictive clinging, an extremely needy condition that can turn into its opposite at the flick of a switch.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun,”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“But in the books again, great joy through love seemed always to go hand in hand with frightful pain. Still, he thought, looking out across the meadow, still, the joy would be worth the pain—if, indeed, they went together. If”
― Sheldon Vanauken, A Severe Mercy

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir