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“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Mountains seem to answer an increasing imaginative need in the West. More and more people are discovering a desire for them, and a powerful solace in them. At bottom, mountains, like all wildernesses, challenge our complacent conviction - so easy to lapse into - that the world has been made for humans by humans. Most of us exist for most of the time in worlds which are humanly arranged, themed and controlled. One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own rhythms and orders of existence. Mountains correct this amnesia. By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains refute our excessive trust in the man-made. They pose profound questions about our durability and the importance of our schemes. They induce, I suppose, a modesty in us.”
― Robert MacFarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination

“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
― Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Wildness is the preservation of the World.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walking

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity”
― John Muir, Our National Parks

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”
― Chris Maser, Forest Primeval: The Natural History of an Ancient Forest

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
― Samuel Beckett

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
― Confucius

“Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.”
― Charles Simic, The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”
― Albert Einstein

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw