lessons from the wild

from into the wild by jon krakauer -

"i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. i felt in myself a super-abundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life." - leo tolstoy "family happiness"

"... the two basic ideals of man - without them he is unthinkable - the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrifice." - boris pasternak "dr. zhivago"

"there are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. the rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times." - annie dillard "holy the firm"