From Cormac McCarthy: “The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”
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Quote of the day 06/27/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He said that whether a man’s life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
Quote of the day 05/24/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “A man who, as a physical being, is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.”
Quote of the day 05/23/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.”
Quotes of the day 05/22/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
Quote of the day 05/21/24
From Alan Watts: “The more a person knows of himself, the more he will hesitate to define his nature and to assert what he must necessarily feel, and the more he will be astounded at his capacity to feel in unsuspected and unpredictable ways.”
Quote of the day 05/20/24
From Alan Watts: “Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.”
Quote of the day 05/17/24
From Alan Watts: “A man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”
Quote of the day 05/16/24
From Alan Watts: “And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words… As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.”
Quote of the day 05/15/24
From Alan Watts: “Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.”