Pursuit Forum Quotes & Sayings

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can retire. — Paulo Coelho

How could they possibly be Japanese planes? — Husband E. Kimmel

remember the love. — Susan Wiggs

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. — Michel De Montaigne

Our health care approaches squander billions on extravagant treatment regimes that end up accomplishing little, as a society we refuse to adopt the small, even tiny adjustments that could easily reduce the clawing uncertainties that now degrade millions. — Robert Martensen

We let people invent us as they please, he thinks. The truth we keep to ourselves. — Ivy Pochoda

The lesson of bells is that no work is worth finishing, so why care too deeply about anything? Years of bells will condition all but the strongest to a world that no longer offer important work to do.
Bells destroy the past and future, rendering every interval the same as any other, as the abstraction of a map renders every living mountain and river the same, even though they are not. Bells inoculate each undertaking with significance. — John Taylor Gatto

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker. — Michel De Montaigne

You're trying to help them ... that's a good thing. But you can't always count on seeing their gratitude," he said wanting to comfort her before he added a grain of salt. "You know what Tolstoy said ... if you are unhappy with your life, you can change it in two ways ... either improve the conditions you live in or improve your inner spiritual state. The first isn't always possible but the second is ... In the end, Alex, people need to go directly to the source of Grace for themselves. — Paul Alkazraji

You said Brian is forcing us to go to Key West, whether we want to or not," I said. "And you said all the houses will be there. Other than that, you might as well be speaking Etruscan." Rita — Jeff Lindsay

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die, — Marie Howe

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.
When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.
New is life. — Anne Lamott

Somewhere underneath it all, I know he doesn't deserve to take up space in my brain. — Susane Colasanti