Life, and Death, and Giants Quotes

“Sometimes, it isn’t where you’re going, but rather what you’re running from that determines where you find yourself.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“The world is your oyster, and its pearls are in your hands. But live wisely. Choose wisely. Love wisely. And never quit.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“The last night they’d spoken, she told him everyone takes two journeys alone, the one that brings us to Earth and the one that takes us to heaven, and it is the path we have trod in between that gives the measure of a life. It is the good we leave behind us, she said, that makes a life worth living.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“all zealous belief, secular and spiritual, relies upon some blindness in the believers. Only in the brokenness of true humility can we see beyond the false borders we ourselves, saints and sinners alike, erect. Thomas, an agnostic who has done more for God’s creatures than perhaps any random hundred believers together, puts it more simply. Life, he says, is complicated.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“the internet is a sewage dump, a toilet where anonymous assholes compete to out-ignorant each other.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“If love was all the same water, perhaps it lapped a bit differently on each shore that it touched? Or perhaps it shaped itself to the depth and breadth of the vessels that contained it? Enjoy what you have, Thomas wrote. Enjoy every minute of it. Youth is a seemingly bottomless gift, but it has a short shelf life.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“He was seventy-one years old”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“tattooed”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“By late March”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“The fact is”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Didn’t seem that life could get much better”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“I talk a lot when I’m nervous, one of my many imperfections.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“You’ve seen the miracle of birth so many times. How can you not see that death is also a miracle?”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“If anger fills every bucket lowered into the well, it is cheapened by its plenty. But when it is rare, when the bucket must go deep for it, it is rendered more potent.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Didn’t seem that life could get much better, but as anyone who has lived at all knows well: life can surprise you.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“We are taught all our lives that Satan has no better deceiver than those self-deceived.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“The promise of immortality is a gift”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Youth is a seemingly bottomless gift”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“He guessed that being rich beyond imagination ensured only that one could buy anything desired except what really mattered: contentment”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“A quiet mouth”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“I told myself to treasure every minute I had with him. It is a lesson we should heed every day we spend with those we love”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Enjoy what you have”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“It is not good for husbands and wives to carry too many unspoken thoughts. They have no shape or weight”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Sometimes”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“But then one day you don’t wake up, and everything you didn’t do piles up in a heap like boxcars in a train wreck a mile long.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Finally, in your conduct be friendly toward everyone and a burden to none. Toward God, live a holy life; toward yourself, be moderate; toward your fellow men, be fair; in life, be modest; in your manner, courteous; in admonition, friendly; in forgiveness, willing; in your promises, true; in your speech, wise; and out of a pure heart gladly share of the bounties you receive.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“Paradise is not of this earth, and time cannot be frozen in its most hopeful and happy moments.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“The last night they’d spoken”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“I must begin by recognizing the short, remarkable life of Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918–July 15, 1940), the tallest person who ever lived. Just eight pounds five ounces at birth, Wadlow stood eight feet 11.1 inches tall, weighed 439 pounds, and had size 37 feet at the time of his death, at age twenty-two, his extraordinary growth driven by hypertrophy of the pituitary gland. For a time, Wadlow toured with the Ringling Brothers Circus and promoted shoes for the International Shoe Company, but he seems to have sought a normal life, resisting efforts to define him exclusively as a circus attraction. He died of an infection in Manistee, Michigan, and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Alton, Illinois.”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants

“parked in a little, whopper-jawed line in the hayfield across the way. We joined them, then”
― Ron Rindo, Life, and Death, and Giants