Laurence Gonzales famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Zoos #Civilization #Pet
To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Reality #Firsts #Deals
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Practice #Finding Yourself #One Day
To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Finding Yourself
Count your blessings. Be grateful-- you're alive
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Grateful #Blessing #Alive
We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Believe #Thinking #Feels
The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Heart #Mind #Sound
The sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Sun #Beam #Tricks
The summit is not the only place on the mountain.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Mountain #Summit
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
-- Laurence Gonzales
But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Wall #Home #Heart
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Survival #Survivor #Today
Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.
-- Laurence Gonzales

#Leadership #Struggle #Achievement

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