Three Thoughts

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars. Every place is the center of the world.
-John Burroughs

To hear, one must be silent.
-Ursula K. LeGuin

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
-Robert Pirsig