47 Quotes by Timothy Egan

they were a little surprised, not only to find him packaged and ready to go by a N.Y. medic crew.

In the spring, the carpet flowered amid the green, and as wind blew, it looked like music on the ground.

Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

The villainous sun and the starved bank did not seem related—yet.

Sometimes the wind along the Pacific shore blows so hard it steals your breath before you can inhale it.

Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.

I’ll take the advice of Labre, the patron saint of wandering souls, who grew up not far from here: ‘There is no way. The way is made by walking.

Better for a man to fail, he said, even “to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.