3Jane’s most recent Quotables

But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest.

Cliches are true. We need our archetypes, because without them life turns into a farm scene painted by an incompetent child, where you can't tell which animal is which and we're all just brown blobs which barely stand out from a background of indeterminate grey

Everything stands out, still and back-lit, so different to the ever-moving sludge of the present day. Nothing is real until it's gone: before then it's just shadows playing. Today is a joke, accidentaly and flawed. It's only yesterday that sings.

I knew finally that you shouldn't lie down and wait for darkness, leaving quietly, slouching towards death. You should run, because the only real fear is that you'll stop running, that you'll stop doing, that you'll come to an end before everything else.

Hindsight can be brilliantly incisive, and never misses the banana skins of existence.

For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return

The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes

Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery