The following are thoughts, observations, and quotes I have pondered on over the years from people much wiser than I.
"Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive."
-- Elbert Hubbard
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"Home is one's wife." -- Jewish proverb
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"Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn."
-- Louis Ginsberg
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“Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking."
-- J.C. Watts
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"Nobody's seen where I've been. Nobody feels what I've done.
Nada one." -- Nancy Wilson
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"Depression is not a sin; but what depression does, no sin can do."
-- Chassidic saying
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." -- Henry David Thoreau
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"It's just a game, and all I can do is play." -- Rik Emmett
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"If you want to be happy, be." -- Leo Tolstoy
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"The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body." -- Syrus
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"If God lived on earth, people would break His windows."
-- Jewish proverb
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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ." -- John Steinbeck
This is a nice collection of quotes. It is interesting to see you quote Christopher McCandless, I was impressed by the film of "Into the Wild" and am now in the process of reading the Jon Krakauer it was based on. He was quite an interesting young guy.
ReplyDeleteI'll throw in a quote I've always liked -
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill
Thank you for the comment. I saw the movie and read the book. The book is amazingly well written. You'll enjoy it more than the movie. Thank you also for the Churchill quote. It certainly hits the nail on the head.
ReplyDeleteYou are right. I haven't finished it yet, but the book is great, it paints a very vivid picture of McCandless, and puts his experience in the context of other similar young men with notions of the purity of the wilderness.
ReplyDeleteAs the book indicates, it is almost a religious impulse, like monks heading into the desert to seek some form of divinity or revelation, away from what they view as the corruption of the world.
I haven't decided exactly what I think of McCandless just yet. But he was a young man who lived the life he wanted to, for good or ill. And not many of us can truly say that.
“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
ReplyDeleteI don't know who to attribute this quote to, but I find it very appropriate.