22 Quotes by Jedidiah Jenkins

It takes a safe and wide love to teach a man that it's possible to fail and remain.

if discontent is your disease, travel is medicine.

Once you know you are worthy and your story is worthy, you fight for other stories.

Being labeled is claustrophobic. It locks you into connotations.

When I pretend to be less or more than my full identity, I present a character to the world. One I must maintain and prune and reinvent and defend. I poison my authenticity with the acrobatics of personal propaganda, propping up the idiot dictator of my ego. Spending my time imagining what other people are thinking instead of thinking for myself.

The life before had happened to me as childhood happens to everyone. The mark of adulthood is when we happen to life.

...goals help us get a lot done. But they often remove our attention from the experience to the achievement. When we arrive at our goal, we think, then we will be happy. When we finally get there, we can celebrate and have fun. When I get that job, I'll be fulfilled then. When I get married, I will be happy. The Eden we pine for is not under our own feet or bike tires, but over the next mountain.

When the honeymoon phase is over, what’s left is the continuous choosing of the other person.

I couldn’t give up on my global optimism. I’ve always believed that the world is far friendlier than it is not, far more loving than hateful. Fear is like a thorn in your foot. It may be proportionally small in relation to the body, but it hurts and demands attention and everything halts until the thorn gets pulled.