The summit is not the only place on the mountain.
Laurence GonzalesWith the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.
Laurence GonzalesTo deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.
Laurence GonzalesThe word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence GonzalesTag: experience survival
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
Laurence GonzalesI am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders...It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)
Laurence GonzalesTag: inspirational
To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.
Laurence GonzalesThe sun beams are always there. The trick is in seeing them.
Laurence GonzalesBut what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or more accurate weapons to kill them. It's not a better low-fat meal or a faster computer speed. It's not a deodorant, a car, a soft drink, a skin cream. The way forward is found on a path through the wilderness of the head and heart---reason and emotion. Thinking, knowing, understanding.
Laurence GonzalesTag: progress thinking reason understanding emotion growth knowing
Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
Laurence GonzalesTag: bureaucracy nonsense
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