Quotes for Wilder Places

To have a great adventure, and survive requires good judgement. Good judgement comes from experience. Experience, of course, is the result of poor judgment.

— Geoff Tabin

We don’t think ourselves in to a new way of living. We live ourselves in to a new way of thinking.

—Richare Rohr

Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing at all.

—Helen Keller

Everyone believes in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing.

—Henry David Thoreau

You can’t tell me there is no mystery. It’s everywhere I turn.

—Bruce Cockburn

Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

—Navy Seals Slogan

The best time to plant an oak tree was 70 years ago. The next best time is today.

—Anonymous

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

—Andy Dufresne

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

—Confucius

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

—Albert Einstein

Hell yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise it would be called , “Sure-thing-taking.”

—Jim McMahon

Never thought of possessions, but all this was mine. If you know, even for a moment that it’s your time, then you can walk with the power of a thousand generations.

—Bruce Cockburn

Glinda: “You’ve always had the power my dear.” Scarecrow: “Why didn’t you tell her before?” Glinda: “She wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.”

—from The Wizard of Oz.

The face of the river, in time, became a wonderful book…which told its mind without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it had uttered them with a voice.  And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

— Mark Twain

Do something every day that scares you.

—Mary Schick

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

—Albert Einstien

If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him.

— Sheldon Kopp

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves-regret for the past and fear of the future.

—Fulton Ousler

If you wanna go fast, go alone. If you wanna go far, go together.

—African Proverb

I can tell you what the purpose of life is not. It is like music. Music is not designed to get to the end of itself. If is was so, one would play music as fast as possible to get to the end.

—Alan Watts

I am haunted by waters.

—Norman Maclean