quotes – Schlepping Life

When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career. Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. – Chadwick Boseman

Good company or the best?

“My idea of good company…is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.’ ‘You are mistaken,’ said he gently, ‘that is not good company, that is the best.” – Jane Austen, Persuasion

Listen.

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway

Be still. Let life happen.

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance. Morgan Freeman

Your sister life

“I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.” – Cheryl Strayed

Optimism vs. Cynicism

“I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism.” – Tom Hanks

So much in common

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common. – Maynard James Keenan

Homesick? But, I’ve never been.

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” ― Judith Thurman

Ain’t no surer way…

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

Travel = Power + Love

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi

The one constant… baseball.

I don’t have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers. ― W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

Some people are as good as Spring…

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good…