“I can find no cause or creed to stimulate me. Why? Is this my fault? I’m not the dedicated type to give myself up to helping others. I believe in God, but not that of the church. I believe in a more realistic God, I think.” LifeGodWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I don’t know if it is too vast a subject unless the heat is too great. I want something to which I can give myself heart and soul. True, sincere love does not come easily to me. I feel empty without this. I must find it, maybe in Argentina.” LifeWisdomTruthTravelReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I shall find something worth pouring my all into. I wish I could paint and draw or play the trumpet.” LifeArtWisdomTruthMusicReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I find writing frustrating. Words seem inadequate for all emotions. I do not have enough mastery of language to put my feelings to paper. Perhaps the author's duty is not to express his feelings but those of the story or novel.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I can't seem to get down to writing. There appears to be no urge. No coherent reason just now.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I can't put anything of value down on paper, only a list of dreary, staccato thoughts.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“Am I whingeing, moaning about my life? It is a life of my choosing, God knows. Much I have learnt and how much more I must learn. When can I get down to some serious reading, something instinctive and beneficial?” LifeWisdomTruthBooksReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I cannot write before I have read more and learnt more from what I read.” LifeWritingWisdomTruthReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“I must read Dickens, Tolstoy, Hardy, Dostoevsky, Maupassant and Galsworthy. I must read Lawrence, Woolf and Joyce. I must listen to music, read more, and learn more about modern and ancient. I must read Kant, Freud, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Aristotle, Sophocles — I must become a fountain of knowledge. I must go home soon.” LifeWisdomTruthLearningBooksReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963
“It’s funny how the mind wanders. Here I sit, in the Amazon Basin in the tropics, thinking about marriage and other crap. Someday, far in the distance, I shall read this and think of these days. One day, some good will come from these thoughts, maybe? Perhaps they will help someone else – for sure as hell, they don’t seem to do me much bloody good.” LifeWisdomTruthMarriageReflectionContemplationLife LessonAttributed No Source Author:Gordon Roddick, 1963