Louis L'Amour Quotes

The trees are aware, and the bushes. The birds and small animals are aware, and they listen, hesitant, suspecting. Awareness of danger is an element of their being. It is like their breathing, like the blood in their veins, and one who lives much with the wilderness become so aware, too... Half of woodcraft is attention, and all of survival.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

The mind gathers its grain in all fields, storing it against a time of need, then suddenly it bursts into awareness, which men call inspiration or second sight or a gift.

"It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This — " I held out my hands " — this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it."

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?
Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.

In Bowdrie’s limited vocabulary, to be responsible was the most important word.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

No one can “get” an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process. If it does nothing else, it should provide students with the tools for learning, acquaint them with methods of study and research, methods of pursuing an idea. We can only hope they come upon an idea they wish to pursue.