Horace Traubel quotes

“If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.”
-- Horace Traubel

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“No matter how hot the fire burns, a Protea always survives”

“Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.

“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'”

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

“I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.”

“Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1998). “Falling leaves: the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter”

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”