"Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death."
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"Don't ask for security, ask for adventure"
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"Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the youngest or despised child who becomes the master of extraordinary powers-prevails over his personal oppressors, the latter brings back from his adventure the means for the regeneration of his society as a whole."
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"The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms."
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"You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?"
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"The call to adventure is the point in a person’s life when they are first given notice that everything is going to change, whether they know it or not."
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"There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties"
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"The possessor of a sound heart puts to test his power by entering into big adventures."
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"You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me."
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"Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour."
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"Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life."
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"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort"
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"Try to live with the same intensity as a child. He doesn't ask for explanations; he dives into each day as if it were a new adventure and, at night, sleeps tired and happy."
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"No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight."
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"Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure."
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"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: “Adventures are to the adventurous.”"
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"Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal."
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"When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure."
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"New York, forever the port of em- and de-barkation en route to Adventure."
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"A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration."
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