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The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is so much that must be done
in a civilized barbarism like war.
- Amelia Earhart
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead
A nation or civilization that
continues to produce soft-minded men
purchases its own spiritual death
on the installment plan.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What do I think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,
in a state of civilization,
it expects what never was and never will be.
- Thomas Jefferson
Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
While civilization has been improving our houses,
it has not equally improved
the men who are to inhabit them.
It has created palaces, but it was
not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization
is the influence of good women.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not possible for civilization to
flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong,
but it will advance its allotted length.
- Helen Keller
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga
and the civilization that wore it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Do or do not, there is no try.
- Jedi Master Yoda in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar.
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no wrong, only discovery...
- Byron Katie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
It is only in adventure that some people
succeed in knowing themselves -
in finding themselves.
- Andre Gide
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An idea that is not dangerous is
unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- Oscar Wilde
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy.
What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
- Carl Jung
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent
of what nature has revealed to us.
- Albert Einstein
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
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