The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.
The man who worries about what will next be happening to him loses this moment in dread of the next, and poisons the next with pre-judgement.
Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
Men cannot grieve as dogs do.
He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.
He reaches forward slowly, to lift the pen from my lax grip. Wearily I regard the faltering trail of ink it has tracked down my page. I have seen that shape before, I think, but it was not ink then. A...
Long or short, if you worry about every step of a journey, you will divide it endlessly into pieces, any one of which may defeat you. Look only to the end.
There is power in the keeping of a secret, and power in the revelation of a secret. Sometimes it takes very wise man to discern which is the path to greater power.
They spoke of a dream of a child who bore the heart of a wolf.
What does who call me when?
Yet I desperately wanted to share the news, as if grief were a heavy burden to be spread out among those who must bear it.
It was a terrible division, to feel such need for someone, and yet to feel angry that the need existed.
Why, I suddenly wondered, had I wasted all those hours I could have spent with her? Why hadn’t I gone with them, to listen to a bedtime story or nursery song?
Perspicacious
When you let go and follow your fate instead of trying to twist your life around and master it, a man finds that happiness follows him.
It is difficult to insult the man you don't speak to.
The fight isn’t over until you’ve won.
Shall. I think I finally guessed then what
When circumstances are right, unlikely people do extraordinary things. When the weight of the world is behind them, the push of events and time itself will align to make incredible things happen.
What you are born to be, you will be, whether it be priest or sailor. So step up and be it. Let them do nothing to you. Be the one who shapes yourself.
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