“If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.”
― The Quiet Crisis and the Next Generation
― The Quiet Crisis and the Next Generation
“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
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“To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”
― The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy
― The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story – A New York Times Bestselling Philosophical Memoir of Hope and Intimacy
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