Catherine Brandt:
CLASS OF 2010
California State University Class of 2010
San marcos, CA
Catherine's Story
Catherine is from Julian, California. Catherine's schools include California State University . Catherine later attended California State University, San Marcos, CSUSM (Literature and Writing) .
Music Catherine likes includes Sigur Rós, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver. Books Catherine likes include Lord of the Flies, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Lord of the rings two towers. Movies Catherine likes include The Princess Bride, Serenity, Into the Wild. TV shows Catherine likes include Family Guy.
One of Catherine's favorite quotes is:""Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach. Now all I have is the sword and I give it to whoever wishes to continue his pilgrimage. I carry with me the marks and scars of battle- they are the witness of what I suffered and the rewards of what I conquered. These are the beloved marks and scars that will open the gates of Paradise to me. There was a time when I used to listen to tales of bravery. There was a time when I lived merely because I needed to live. But now I live because I am a Warrior and I wish to be in the company of him for whom I fought so hard." -John Bunyan
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." -Jack Kerouac
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it careful round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable...The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love is Hell."
- C.S. Lewis
âNo soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it.â - C.S. Lewis
"There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. ⦠To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me."
â Edward Abbey
"Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger."
â Edward Abbey (The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader)
"The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see."
â Edward Abbey
"There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have dared not dwell; and with these in mind I saw, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be in the end."
- Edward Whymper, Scrambles Amongst the Alps
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no
survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival."
- C.S. Lewis
"I am obliged to exercise unlimited forgiveness because, if I did not forgive, I should thus act as if I were not guilty in the same way as the other has been guilty with regard to me.
I must forgive the lovelessness, the hatred, the slander, the fraud, the arrogance which I encounter, since I myself have so often lacked love, hated, slandered, defrauded, and been arrogant.
I must forgive without noise or fuss."
-- Albert Schweitzer
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Gil Bailie
"I live not in myself, but become portion of that around me; and to me high mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture"
-Lord Byron
"Procrastinate now. Don't put it off." -Ellen DeGeneres
"Some people make good swimmers; others are good at math... and some people can walk down hills in high-heels." - Brian Hughes
"I like Jesus.... He's a good guy." -Paul Gibbons
"Real, live cadavers." -Jesse Phillips
"Gravity keeps us saggy." - Courtney Brandt
"Parting is such frickin' sweet sorrow." - Courtney Brandt
"Ignorance is the stone you stub your toe on when you enter into adulthood." - Catherine Brandt
"The hawk is aerial brother of the wave which he sails over and surveys, those his perfect air - inflated wings answering to the elemental unfledged pinions of the sea. Or sometimes I watched a pair of hen - hawks circling high in the sky, alternately soaring and descending, approaching, and leaving one another, as if they were the embodiment of my own thoughts..." -Henry David Thoreau, The Bean-Field
"...there is a sky; and it drifts hesitantly above. A self-conscious sky, fidgeting with questions: 'Why Has This Solitary Girl Not Gazed Upward to Admire?' Afraid, this sky of pale mauve-grey refuses to meet the horizon."
- Isabelle Gerrard
"Relationships need verbs!"
- Lorelai (Gilmore Girls)
"What is it that slides invisible among my thoughts? What transparent thread weaves my days together? Always at the corner of my eye, just beyond the focus of my vision, something moves, disappears when I turn toward it..."
"We are nearly all slaves. We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire -- a crackpot machine, that the specialist cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are... dependent employees."
"I am -really am- an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where the world falls off into the depths of another. That's the way I like it."
"How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas . . . how utterly rich and wild. . . . Yet some among us have the nerve, the insolence, the brass, the gall to whine about the limitations of our earthbound fate and yearn for some more perfect world beyond the sky. We are none of us good enough for the world we have."
- Edward Abbey
"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience."
"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid." --Thoreau
"I just open my mouth and ultrasonic awesome comes out."
-Joshua Lindhardt".
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