Quotes from Camron Wright

Two things happen when you get to be old. One, you gather experience and knowledge. You learn from your mistakes, and thereby offer wisdom to others. The second thing that happens is that you grow forgetful, ornery and senile, and when you offer advice, well, you sometimes just don't know what you're talking about. Often it's hard for everyone-including me-to know the difference.

Her biggest fault - perplexing to this day - is that Mother loves to pick trash. Its an adventure, she says. You never know what surprises you'll find

Life will not always be so hard and cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

Literature is a cake with many toys baked inside-and even if you find them all, if you don't enjoy the path that leads you to them, it will be a hollow accomplishment. There was a playwright named Heller, American, I believe, who summed it up this way. He said, 'They knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

All I am saying is relax. Listen to the wind, feel the water. See where life's breeze wants to take you. Look, if God wants to give you a bigger oar or two, he will. He has plenty. There are times, however, when he's trying to blow us one way and we're paddling like crazy the other. Occasionally we just need to stop and be grateful.

We don't use knives and forks," Pranay replied, leaning forward, "because we are not at war with our food. We don't need weapons. We have learned it is better to surrender to the flavors, to caress and embrace them. You see, eating for Indians is a passionate affair. Picking up the food with our fingers evokes a closeness, a feeling of warmth, a connection. It would all be lost if we started stabbing and cutting.

When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." —Buddha

We all want to have a happy ending. A lot of times in life, sometimes you do and sometimes it feels like you don't. But you could argue if it is not a happy ending yet, maybe you are just in the middle of your story.

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

Chellamuthu expected to feel heroic by helping Anu recover. Instead it was just hard work. Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don't share: Courage comes from doing common things.

In almost every story, the fiercest battles often take place within.

Life will not always be so hard or cruel. Our difficulties are but a moment.

At times I think I can hear my brain screaming, "I am reading here, so please, all other body parts, do your best to keep up!

I leave the bridge in peace; we part as friends. I take so much of her with me and leave so much of myself behind. I think that's what life must be about-- helping others, leaving pieces of us with them, in return fitting borrowed pieces from them into our own voids, each person helping others along the way.

my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day.

Perhaps there are times He trusts us enough to move forward without giving us every little answer.

Vasudhaiva kutumbakam,' which means 'The whole world is a family.

Colonel Moore once asked me if I was prepared to die, and, in looking back, I was. What I wasn't properly prepared for was to live-

People only go to the places they have visited first in their minds," she says, uttering the phrase as if secrets to the universe have just been shared. "Perhaps that is how learning can help you. However, first you must see it, feel it, and then believe it. When you do, where it takes you may surprise.

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Parents are strange and wonderful creatures. When you're small they seem bright, shiny, and invincible. As you grow, that image starts to fade. It's a sobering moment, but the time will come when you realize they are not the heroes you imagined. They are just people struggling to do the best they can, just the same as you are.You will feel let down, betrayed, even ashamed. This is the time,...when you need to forgive your parents for being human.

Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine.

you've spent so much of your life in emotional survival mode. Of course you have a hole. Anyone would. We all live with holes of some kind or another, and we spend our lives trying to fill them—so quit fighting it.

He has dark skin," she said to Rux, jumping right to her point, "because God is an astounding artist, and like you, he loves to paint with many different colors.