36 Quotes by Tsh Oxenreider

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. – C. S. Lewis.

If I could, I’d take the food and art of Italy, for example, couple it with the quiet, understated personality of France and the orderliness of Germany, the cinematic and literary wit of Britain, and blend it into one utopian, and ultimately dystopian, probably, civilization.

Oh, that’s my boundary stone. Before I head into my office to write, I touch it to remind myself that just because I’m good at something, and just because someone asks me to do something, doesn’t mean I have to.

We weren’t living the way we wanted because we weren’t making the choices it required. Like so many in our generation of thirtysomething parents, we spoke of a slower, more intentional life, but we expected it to just happen.

I lived in a second-floor apartment on a nameless street in a village of a thousand people who seemed suspended in time.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

People are willing to be brave when they admit their smallness within the enormity of the world, and the best way to understand our smallness is to leave our comfort zones and start exploring, one foot in front of the other.

Wanderlust is never truly quenched – as C. S. Lewis famously penned, “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

Nobody can discover the world for someone else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone. – Wendell Berry.