When writing loses touch with the beautiful surface of the world, it loses its way. You always want to be in touch with how things look and what people say and what they call their dogs.
Garrison KeillorRead
I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the mistakes and losses experienced in life, emphasizing the fragility of what we cherish.
Garrison Keillor's quote captures the essence of human experience, highlighting how we often make poor choices and disregard the precious things we hold dear. It illustrates the universal theme of regret and the inevitable losses that accompany a journey marked by carelessness, ultimately reminding us of the importance of valuing what we love.
Themes
MistakesLossRegretValueLife
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be shared in a discussion about personal growth and accepting our past mistakes.
More from Garrison Keillor
All quotes →Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.
Garrison KeillorRead
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
Garrison KeillorRead
When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.
Garrison KeillorRead
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison KeillorRead
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison KeillorRead
Similar quotes
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
Doris LessingRead
What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
Alfred AdlerRead
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Jim CarreyRead
Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?
Patrick NessRead
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.
Jhumpa LahiriRead
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
Walker PercyRead