Sylvain Tesson Quotes

#1. To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

Sylvain Tesson

#2. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Amy Sedaris

#3. I admire those believers who speak of such things with the same aplomb as if the'd just split a beer with God in the cabin next door.

Sylvain Tesson

#4. You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Maya Angelou

#5. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost

Lisa Unger

#6. Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.

Sylvain Tesson

#7. Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

Ernest Mandel

#8. If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage.

Suze Orman

#9. We should get coffee this week. If you want, that is."
"Coffee would be great," I say. Dick would be better, though.

Karina Halle

#10. It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible ...

Sylvain Tesson

#11. I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Carrie Fisher

#12. How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.
Full nakedness! All joys are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be

John Donne

#13. I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

Alicia Witt

#14. Your understanding of the astral dimensions can help you alter structures in the physical dimensions. It is in and through the medium of the astral dimensions that all of the siddha powers function and work.

Frederick Lenz

#15. The cabin will return to the soil when abandoned by its owner, yet in its simplicity it offers perfect protection against the seasonal cold without disfiguring the sheltering forest. With the yurt and the igloo, it figures among the handsomest human responses to environmental adversity.

Sylvain Tesson

#16. They got a lot of easy baskets and rebounds. That is what killed us.

Rajon Rondo

#17. Those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.

Sylvain Tesson

#18. Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja's gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable.

Anthony Marra

#19. To love is not to celebrate one's own reflection in the face of one's double, but to recognize the value of what one can never know.

Sylvain Tesson

#20. I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book

Sylvain Tesson

#21. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

Roy L. Smith

#22. I do what I can with what I've got, but if I don't GET then I can't DO.

Joseph A. Coley

#23. Compulsive reading relieves the anxiety that comes from tramping through the forest of meditation in search of clearings.

Sylvain Tesson

#24. The hermit, without access to the news of the day, owes it to himself to be up to date on the doings of ancient Rome.

Sylvain Tesson