Letters to My Son Quotes

“This is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”
― Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“And when I am old, and my body has begun to fail me, my memories will be waiting for me. They will lift me and carry me over mountains and oceans. I will hold them and turn them and watch them catch the sunlight as they come alive once more in my imagination. I will be rich and I will be at peace.”
― Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
― Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“If we have played our part well, offering love where it was needed, strength and caring where they were lacking; if we have tended the earth and its creatures with a sense of humble stewardship, we will have done enough.”
― Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“To be a real traveler you must be willing to give yourself over to the moment and take yourself out of the center of your universe”
― Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But maybe it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that allows us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.”
― Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love