"To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive."

-- Frederick Buechner

#Journey Quotes #Scare Quotes #Half Quotes

“Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.”
“We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often to describe big bands. Our job isn't to pigeonhole ourselves or describe where we fit in. Our goal isn't to fit in. Our goal is to be free of all that stuff.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.”
“Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?”
“The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate and inanimate they all develop in space and in time such that they optimize the flow of material.”
“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
“Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.”
“Fear cannot touch meâ€¦ It can only taunt me, It cannot take me, Just tell me where to goâ€¦ I can either follow, Or stay in my bedâ€¦ I can hold on To the things that I knowâ€¦ The dead stay dead, They cannot walk. The shadows are darkness. And darkness cannot talk”

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