Everett Ruess Quotes

#1. Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

William Shakespeare

#2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Isaac Asimov

#3. I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

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#4. I like to be perfectly open and sincere, and yet it is impossible to be sincere to all of one's self at once, so for the deepest understanding one must seek those with whom one can be most truly one's self and never be blind to the ineffable drollery of it all.

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#5. Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

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#7. While I am alive, I intend to live. (Everett Ruess to his friend Bill, Mar 9, 1931, p 31)

W.L. Rusho

#8. When I was a kid and I'd be in trouble. I'd ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn't talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

#9. I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible.

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#10. But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

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#11. Say that i starved, that i was lost and weary
that i was burned and blinded by the desert sun
footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases,
lonely and wet and cold, but that i kept my dream!

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#12. We have a lot of thoughtful people in the U.S. Senate.

Marco Rubio

#13. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities ... it is enough that i am surrounded by beauty.

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#14. I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

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#15. Always I shall be one who loves the wilderness:
Swaggers and softly creeps between the mountain peaks; I shall listen long to the sea's brave music; I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds.

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#16. I had some terrific experiences in the wilderness since I wrote you last - overpowering, overwhelming," he gushed to his friend Cornel Tengel. "But since then I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.
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Jon Krakauer

#17. I'm drunk on the fiery elixer of beauty.

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#18. Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#19. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?

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#20. Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

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#21. ...while I am alive, I intend to live.

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#22. I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#23. I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

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#24. But I believe I met my mother there, in the final instant. Not her ghost but some vaster portion of her, her self boundlessly recharged beneath the water.

Karen Russell