“Your daily actions determine your future.”
“The truth is a pathless land. It’s rarely definable and impossible to organise. While the path is a dead, static thing, the truth breathes. It’s always moving. The world is a movement too, so I believe we have to move in synchronicity with it. We cannot remain stationery inside something that never stops.”
“Together we were like two oxen yoked with the burden of expectation, and there was no room for me to veer left toward self-discovery or for him to veer right toward whatever it was he needed.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“Maybe, I thought, independence is not so much about what you do, but what you feel.”
Source: On Love and Travel: A Memoir
“I tried to be normal. I did everything all of you asked me to do. I ran harder and longer than anyone else just to catch up.
But look where it got me.”
Source: Running as Fast as I Can
“Stepping out of your comfort zone is far greater than the comfort itself.”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I hadn’t come to that world of adulthood with the right intentions—purpose over prosperity, value over quantity, meaning over means. I had wanted to gain the world, not realizing I already had it, lived in it, was a part of it, and it was a part of me. And all I needed was to contribute in a way I loved, in a way I wanted.”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I realized that was how problems worked. When you quit worrying about them, they ceased being problems.”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“It’s only when we slow down that we notice all the beauty surrounding us.”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.
“I thought about the seven straight days of rain and ultimately walking through the last of it jacketless and how so often we tend to protect ourselves from unharmful things.”
Source: Wander: A Memoir of Letting go and Walking 2,000 Miles to a Meaningful Life.