The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up. - Thomas Wolfe
Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.
- Thomas Wolfe
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater … - Thomas Wolfe
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater …
Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, her… - Thomas Wolfe
Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness waiting, her…
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go… - Thomas Wolfe
...the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back - but...you can't go home again...you can't go…
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him… - Thomas Wolfe
The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him…
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitabl… - Thomas Wolfe
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitabl…
America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the tim… - Thomas Wolfe
America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the tim…
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a s… - Thomas Wolfe
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a s…
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the … - Thomas Wolfe
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the …
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