#wander

Not all who wander are lost. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#wander #who

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#had #i #wanderer #wonderful #wonderful childhood

Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were. ↗

— Donal Logue

#always #back #bad #everyone #fair

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#assignment #assignments #freedom #fun #had

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#aware #being #distracted #easily #focused

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ↗

— James Taylor

#guitar #i #itself #music #present

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#path #patience #personal-mythmaking #story #time

There's something in your eyes that scares me," Max whispired, looking through the window. Landon took her face into his hand and made her look into his eyes "What?" he asked. "What do you see?" "Fear," she answered plainly. "I see fear ↗

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#love #shawn-maravel #the-wanderer #love

Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#happy #london #love #morning #simple-living

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night. ↗

— Betty Grable

#better #better off #betting #hold #horse