Descent Quotes

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas.

Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.

How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be thin is upon them, can lose completely their sense of balance and proportion and spend years dealing with this madness.

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more

In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.