“ Sometimes when the three of us were together on our own, we would have a good time. I was pretty young, but sometimes we would go off in the woods and build forts and fight Indians and I think things… Dan Groat
“ Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops. Dan Groat
“ Seek until there is no hope and then seek further. Seek without end. Trudge on without tiring and without fear and without disheartenment. Trudge on, for it is within you to fight any enemy. It is who… Dan Groat
“ Governments have absolutely no interest in self-reliance. It defeats one of the purposes for their existence. They encourage and thrive on dependency. The more of it they sell, the more necessary they… Dan Groat
“ Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power. Dan Groat
“ Some people get what they want because they grab the power and swing it, and some people don’t. Dan Groat
“ A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the su… Dan Groat
“ There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry. Dan Groat
“ Just make sure the day doesn’t pass without sayin’ what’s in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they’re gone forever. Dan Groat
“ Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don’t save yourself, they will die. Dan Groat
“ Peace, a commodity purchased with friendship and safety and anything comfortable and all things familiar; peace that was a pleasant melody playing through the moments of their day; a chord striking on… Dan Groat
“ If all you do is think about what you need, you’re no better than an animal in the woods, and no smarter either. To be human, you’ve got to want. It makes you smarter and stronger. Dan Groat
“ Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans. Dan Groat
“ Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages… Dan Groat
“ Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had. Dan Groat
“ You can be spiritual all by yourself. Everybody has a soul. But to be religious, it seems like you need other people, and then sometimes it becomes more about the people than the soul. Dan Groat
“ The gear teeth of his mind, the cogs of the brain’s machinery that propelled his thoughts, were grinding to a halt, too long forced to fight against the friction of agony without the aid of hope, the… Dan Groat
“ If the forest has a day of fire and the heat of the flames does not consume a special tree, it will still be changed; charred, but still standing. Dan Groat
