L.P. Johnson > L.P.'s Quotes

“When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”
― Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns that Bind You

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't—you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“Do to others as you would have them do to you”
― Luke 6 13

“We are not here 'for' one another, we are here With one another.”
― L.P. Johnson

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“If you are willing to go an Infinite distance to do what you are born to do, the way is opened, for You.”
― L.P. Johnson

“Travel is little beds and cramped bathrooms. It’s old television sets and slow Internet connections. Travel is extraordinary conversations with ordinary people. It’s waiters, gas station attendants, and housekeepers becoming the most interesting people in the world. It’s churches that are compelling enough to enter. It’s McDonald’s being a luxury. It’s the realization that you may have been born in the wrong country. Travel is a smile that leads to a conversation in broken English. It’s the epiphany that pretty girls smile the same way all over the world. Travel is tipping 10% and being embraced for it. Travel is the same white T-shirt again tomorrow. Travel is accented sex after good wine and too many unfiltered cigarettes. Travel is flowing in the back of a bus with giggly strangers. It’s a street full of bearded backpackers looking down at maps. Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was. It’s the rediscovery of walking somewhere. It’s sharing a bottle of liquor on an overnight train with a new friend. Travel is “Maybe I don’t have to do it that way when I get back home.” It’s nostalgia for studying abroad that one semester. Travel is realizing that “age thirty” should be shed of its goddamn stigma.”
― Nick Miller

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Everything...affects everything”
― Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
― Cyril Connolly

“Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.”
― Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park

“Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem