61 Quotes by Pam Houston

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    I’m always out looking for weird, beautiful things.

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    The language of the wilderness is the most beautiful language we have and it is our job to sing it, until and even after it is gone, no matter how much it hurts.

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    The Universe has a plan to make sure we don’t ever stop learning, not only in our minds, but also in our hearts.

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    Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

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    People are supposed to accumulate, I thought, as they get older, but I seem to be sloughing off, like a person wrapped in a hundred layers of cellophane, tearing one layer off at a time, trying to get down to me.

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    Traveling is my priority, because it drives the writing, so I teach around the travel, and sometimes the travel is the teaching.

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    This is what you learned in college: A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

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    Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I’m pretty decent at walking meditation.

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    My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That’s what they did. So I got the bug from them.

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