Quotes of Paul Theroux

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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

- Paul Theroux

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“ Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice ”

- GaryLFrancione

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ Willingness to show we are interested in our children’s needs takes the burden and worries off their minds. It shows compassion on our end, and it builds trust on their end. ”

- Charlena E. Jackson

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ”

- James R. Sherman

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Do I care about pleasure? Yes. But I don't believe in happiness. ”

- Tatiana Vedenska

“ I miss your voice because it is a symphony; your scent because it is a treasure; your smile because it is a jewel; your hug because it is a masterpiece; and your kiss because it is a miracle. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do. ”

- RuPaul

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

“ That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being. ”

- Tom Robbins