If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.
Caring about someone doesn't mean taking care of them.
True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.
You loved ferris wheels more than roller coasters because life shouldn’t be lived at full speed, but in anticipation and appreciation.
The real thing, when done right , is always better than a daydream
But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.
The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.
He didn't flinch, but in his soul he did.
Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.