"We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds."

“Would you care to walk to the river?” -Miles “I would love to walk anywhere with you." -Amber”

“The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 27, 2012

“Nothing is a courtesy unless it be meant us, and that friendly and lovingly. We owe no thanks to rivers that they carry our boats, or winds that they be favoring and fill our sails, or meats that they be nourishing; for these are what they are necessarily. Horses carry us, trees shade us; but they know it not.”

“This fertilized ovum, known as a zygote, is a large diploid cell that is the beginning, or primordium, of a human being.”

Source : Keith L. Moore (1988). “Essentials of Human Embryology”, Mosby Incorporated

“Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.”

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

“Nobody thought Mel Gibson could play a Scot, but look at him now! Alcoholic and a racist!”

Source : "Frankie Boyle Live", 2008.

“You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.”