"We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but theyâ€™ve got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen."

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Source : Bruce Barcott (2011). “Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mount Rainier”, p.72, Sasquatch Books

Bruce Barcott

#People Quotes #Secret Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.”
“I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.”

Source : "Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite". Book by J. W. Vermeulen, H. N. Abrams, 1989.
“As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".”
“I ran for myself, not Finland.”
“I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.”
“The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so that the sunlight has forgotten to find its way through, of what use can it be? Now, the Church is God's window; and if it is so obscured by errors that its light is darkness, how great is that darkness!”
“There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.”
“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.”

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