Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
Edward AbbeyRead
The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the futility of excessive desire and lack of focus in achieving satisfaction.
Edward Abbey articulates a profound truth about the nature of desire and ambition. He suggests that when one allows themselves to be overwhelmed by unchecked cravings, it leads to a chaotic expending of energies without ever attaining true fulfillment. Instead of finding satisfaction or achieving meaningful goals, one becomes a victim of their own insatiable desires, resulting in dissatisfaction and lack of accomplishment.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of focus.
Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.
If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
I think teaching a man to hate himself is much more criminal than teaching a man to hate someone else.
He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
With celestial sight, trials impossible to change become possible to endure.
I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them
The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don't get you. Who knows what you would have contributed to the world had you just been yourself, if you had just celebrated who you are and just walked boldly?
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