Horace Traubel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.
-- Horace Traubel

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No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.
Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

Horace Traubel famous quotes

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