Gone Before Goodbye

by Reese Witherspoon

You wonder what makes a hero? There’s altruism, sure. But there’s also ego and recklessness and thrill-seeking. We don’t fear danger. We fear normalcy.

you learn in the hardest of ways that fate is fickle, that life is chaos and no one gets out unscathed, that you can have everything one moment and have it all snatched away so easily…

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so you may be violent and original in your work.”

Scratch the surface of a person doing good works, and you’ll find someone who fears the mundane and conventional.

Greed is not ‘I need more’—it’s the fear of losing what you already have. Of going back. So you hold on tighter and keep trying to climb up. Because that’s the only way you can go. Life won’t let you stand still. You are either on your way up or you’re on your way down. And you’ll do anything not to go down.”

‘Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.’”