Quotes about the trip
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“Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.”

Orson Scott Card book Rebekah

Source: Rebekah

People, Understanding

“MINDS ARE UNIQUE. They go wrong in unique ways. My mind went wrong in a slightly different way to how other minds go wrong. Our experience overlaps with other people's, but it is never exactly the same experience.”

Matt Haig book Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

People

“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

God, Understanding, Thinking

“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”

Gregory Bateson (1904–1980) English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual anthropologist, semiotician and cyberneticist

People, World, Nature, Problem

“If you are unwilling to defend your right to your own lives,
then you are merely like mice trying to argue with owls.
You think their ways are wrong.
They think you are dinner.”

Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire

Source: Naked Empire

Thinking

“Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won’t you, and I’ll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everybody does.

But my innocence is gone forever.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Feeling, Night

“In some ways, we've been through something no one else can ever understand but the two of us… And it made me realize. We are always and absolutely better together.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Understanding

“How the hell do you think I feel?" I don't want to end up inside a woman!" He paused. "Well, at least not that way”

Karen Chance book Touch the Dark

Source: Touch the Dark

Feeling, Hell, Thinking

“In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.”

Wallace Stegner book Crossing to Safety

Source: Crossing to Safety

Beauty, Game

“You can't let facts get in the way of the truth.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

Truth

“The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.”

China Miéville (1972) English writer

“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

People

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Inspirational, Motivational, Wise, Deep

“O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places".

"Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.”

Hannah Hurnard book Hinds' Feet on High Places

Source: Hinds' Feet on High Places

“The entire teaching of Buddhism can be summed up in this way: Nothing is worth holding on to.”

Jack Kornfield (1945) American writer

Source: Living Dharma: Teachings of Twelve Buddhist Masters

“We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

Source: The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings

Feeling, Question, Waiting, Heart

“We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Fate, Suffering, Help

“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.”

Holly Black book Black Heart

Source: Black Heart

Thinking, Happiness

“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“My mother's life was way too heavy for me.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

Life

“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”

Katherine Neville book The Eight

Source: The Eight

“Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.”

James Hillman (1926–2011) American psychologist

Learning, Childhood

“We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Heart

“I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Back when I was on my first assignment as a seeker, I was way out in Arizona. Brought in this kid named Clarisse.”

“Clarisse?”

“Sibling of yours,” Hedge said. “Ares kid. Violent. Rude. Lots of potential.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Siblings

“It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Life, Time

“I tend to watch silently from the shadows. You learn a lot more that way.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Learning

“If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Life

“What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn't have any way to control.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

People, Stupidity, Nature, Evil

“You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

Time

“The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Understanding, Help

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Silence

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

For Parents, Love, Parent, Water

“Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Gunmetal Magic

“it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

“I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Chance

“We all travel the Milky Way together, trees and men.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: " A Wind Storm in the Forests of the Yuba http://books.google.com/books?id=zj2gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55", Scribner's Monthly, volume XVII, number 1 (November 1878) pages 55-59 (at page 59); modified slightly and reprinted in The Mountains of California http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_mountains_of_california/ (1894), chapter 10: A Wind-Storm in the Forests  <br class="br">Context: We all travel the milky way together, trees and men; but it never occurred to me until this storm-day, while swinging in the wind, that trees are travelers, in the ordinary sense. They make many journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true; but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings — many of them not so much.

Men, Travel, Tree