Forrest > Forrest's Quotes

“He
was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all,
he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart,
with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without
judgement, without an opinion.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“To wake up on a gloriously bright morning, in a tent pitched beneath spruce trees, and to look out lazily and sleepily for a moment from the open side of the tent, across the dead camp-fire of the night before, to the river, where the light of morning rests and perhaps some early-rising[240] native is gliding in his birch canoe; to go to the river and freshen one's self with the cold water, and yell exultingly to the gulls and hell-divers, in the very joy of living; or to wake at night, when you have rolled in your blankets in the frost-stricken dying grass without a tent, and to look up through the leaves above to the dark sky and the flashing stars, and hear far off the call of a night bird or the howl of a wolf: this is the poetry, the joy of a wild and roving existence, which cannot come too often”
― Josiah Edward Spurr, Through the Yukon Gold Diggings

“Still, it was better to swear an oath and never follow through than not even to bother with the oath. Wasn't it?”
― Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold

“You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.”
― Ben Goldacre, Bad Science

“secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Yesenia Chavan, Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Beginners – How to Live in the Moment, Stress and Worry Free in a Constant State of Peace and Happiness

“(As Nietzsche said: “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”)”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”
― John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols