Tom Spanbauer Quotes

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

takes a devil to make a decent angel.

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.

Looking for who I am is who I am.

Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.

Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.

We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate.

Things start where you don't know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start?

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

The way I figure it, we know we got this world, so live in this one while you’re here. I figure the next one will take care of itself.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.