A little mixed media experiment. Pictures from my trip to Innsbruck and quotes from the one and only John Steinbeck. Enjoy!
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
“People who are most afraid of their dreams convince themselves they don’t dream at all.”
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.”
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
“You’ve seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it’s an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?”
“We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent. ”
“Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world.”
“Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.”
“It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.
And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless.
We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”
“We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.”
This Thing Called Life 