Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
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William Blake
Poet, Painter
"In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
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"Life is an adventure, dare it."
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"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
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"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water."
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"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure."
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"I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience."
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"It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons."
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"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world."
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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
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"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in."
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"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news"
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"Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence."
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"Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon."
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"Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure."
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"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started."
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"If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities"
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"The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark."
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"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them."
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"The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today."
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"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
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"Drop it like it's hot."
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