Charles de Lint Life Quotations

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.

We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.