“…to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be
capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost
but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a
chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.”
– A Field Guide To Getting Lost
The only rules that matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can’t do.
– Captain Jack Sparrow
“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
Orson Welles.
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”
Anthony Bourdain
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here. -Charles Bukowski
I’ve made mistakes and mistake have made me
-Somebody
“Inside of me lives a civil war between me and me. It is amazing, because I am all the time winning and all the time losing.”
– Bshayer F.R
”A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty, has wasted thirty years of his life” -Muhammad Ali.
So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.” – Edward Abbey
“Well, I’ve been afraid of changin’
‘Cause I’ve built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I’m getting older too
Climb a mountain and turn around…”-Landslide, Fleetwood Mac
