My Abandonment Quotes

“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Every problem I have comes from believing something to be true that is not true.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will pass an invisible boundary. Don't forget this. Don't forget that thinking can get in the way. Forget the forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“People were never supposed to live in cities. They gathered together since they were scared and then living like that only made them more and more afraid.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“To let someone make you angry is always a mistake.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Appearances count,” Father says. “When they see us riding our bikes to church, when they hear us sing and we dress up on Sunday that makes them believe certain things about us.” “Like what?” I say. “That we’re like them,” he says. “That we believe the same things. That makes them happy, to see us doing what they’re doing.”   The”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“This is one reason Father wears the piece of mirror taped to the top of his engineer's cap, so it reflects back up whoever's face is trying to look down at him. As he walks the sun reflects in the mirror and slides shining lights all along the brick wall above his head. If he bends down to tie his shoes it can hit you sharp in the eyes.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“You have to look like you're going somewhere and if you can you don't ever want to look like you're carrying everything you own. You want to travel light like you have a home and that's where you keep your things.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“The other terror," he says, "the other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“They want you to like it," Father says. "This way they can know where you are at all times.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“It’s hard to stay the same while everything keeps changing around you.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“To be great is to keep sweetness.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Nature ever flows, never stands still.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“It’s a girls own fault if she is bored.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Todos mis problemas surgen de creer cosas que sé que no son ciertas.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“Si una avanza confiada en dirección a sus sueños, encontrará un éxito inesperado en horas ordinarias. Atravesará un límite invisible. No olviden esto. No olviden que el pensamiento puede interponerse. Olviden olvidar. Buscamos olvidarnos de nosotros mismos, sorprendernos y hacer cosas sin saber cómo ni por qué. El camino de la vida es maravilloso. Se hace de abandono.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“None of the buildings in the town of Sisters are really more than one story tall.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“he has bills of money folded thick in his hand. He gives me some. “Go in and buy a ticket to Bend,” he says. “One way.” “Where?” I say. “I’ve never heard of that place.” “Bend,”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“This will be so much better,” Miss Jean Bauer says with her hand on my shoulder. “Caroline will be able to start school in a month and a half and get back to having a regular education like any child here in Oregon.” “Yes,”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“The pale green of the St. Johns Bridge, stretching across the river to the Safeway and the library and everything on that side.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment

“One Sometimes you’re walking through the woods when a stick leaps into the air and strikes you across the back and shoulders several times, then flies away lost in the underbrush.”
― Peter Rock, My Abandonment