Audrey Sutherland quotes

“The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”
-- Audrey Sutherland

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“What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.”
-- Audrey Sutherland

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“The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.”
-- Audrey Sutherland

Source : Audrey Sutherland (1978). “Paddling my own canoe”, Kolowalu Book

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“Don't spend money on gear. Spend it on plane tickets.”
-- Audrey Sutherland

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“Modesty and dew love the shade.”

“HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.”

“I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I've met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally - I've been completely committed... The results have shown.”

“A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

“Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.”

“The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".”

“I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.”

“Subtle, funny and touching, with a striking downbeat authenticity. Director Craig Zobel is the real thing.”

“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”

“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”