Everett Ruess Quotes

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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• You have to take over your town in order to take over your city.

  

  Quavo Migos
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• To use the image of Che Guevara to sell vodka is a slur on his name and memory. He never drank himself, he was not a drunk, and drink should not be associated with his immortal memory... As a supporter of the ideals for which Che Guevara died, I am not averse to its reproduction by those who wish to propagate his memory and the cause of social justice throughout the world.

  

  Alberto Korda
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• The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, that role was Dracula.

  

  Bela Lugosi
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• Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

  

  e. e. cummings

• While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves. All that they do, they do only for their own sake. For these self- centered individuals, the most precious things in the world is their ‘self.’ Like a cancer that eats and destroys its own cells, the self-centered individual is slowly dying inwardly.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • People
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• When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Truth
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• Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

  

  Rita Mae Brown
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• Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • World
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• I have had just about all I can take of myself.

  

  S. N. Behrman

• Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

  

  Wahb ibn Munabbih
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• In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful.

  

  Aristotle
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• The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
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• He that dies this year is quit for the next.

  

  William Shakespeare
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• The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • God
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• If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

  

  Herbert Spencer
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• Our philosophies must be rewritten to remove them from the domain of words and "ideas," and to plant their roots firmly in the earth.

  

  William Vogt
  • Earth
  • Journey
  • Walking

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

  

  Everett Ruess
  • Dies
  • Wander
  • Spots