I don't go to church much anymore, but Methodist values still wind me up and send me ticking into my daily life.
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts
The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.
The secret to happiness is to be working at your passion. If you want to be miserable, lead a desperate life like everybody else where they drag their asses to work everyday because they hate their job.
How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top
There's no difference between a pessimist who says, "Oh it's hopeless, so don't bother doing anything. " and an optimist who says, "Don't bother doing anything, it's going to turn out fine anyways. Either way, nothing happens. "
Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.
"Grace," I said, my vision swirling now because of her blood smeared across my wrists, "Can you hear me?" She nodded then stumbled to her knees. I knelt beside her; her eyes were huge and afraid and my heart was breaking. "I'll come find you, I said. "I promise I'll come find you. Don't forget me. Don't-don't lose yourself. "
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.