Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

I like change. I've never really had much consistency in my life, you know, from everyday work to my living situation to whether or not I'm going to be in L.A. The one constant thing in my life is my friends and family, which is all I need.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

Nothing is guaranteed.

You have to decide if you want something stable and safe or if you want to take a risk and go outside the formula and try something new. That's everything that dance embodies.

I feel like I've always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.

Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.