"Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North"

-- Jim Harrison

#Wonder Quotes #True North Quotes

“Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.”
“To do nothing was disgraceful; therefore I made use of my understanding.”
“My parents are big Shakespeare fans.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.”
“For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.”
“Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.”
“The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.”

Source : Judith Guest (1982). “Ordinary People”, p.2, Penguin
“Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.”

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