To live only for some future ...

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It\'s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
 Robert M. Pirsig

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
 Robert M. Pirsig
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
 Robert M. Pirsig
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
 Robert M. Pirsig
99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.
 Robert M. Pirsig
I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.
 Robert M. Pirsig