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We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
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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
The civilized man has built a coach,
but has lost the use of his feet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
- Alfred North Whitehead
Lack of culture means what it has always meant:
ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization
is the influence of good women.
- 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
A nation or civilization that
continues to produce soft-minded men
purchases its own spiritual death
on the installment plan.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
What do I think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga
and the civilization that wore it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The end of the human race will be that
it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
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
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
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
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One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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)
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- 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
Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
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Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
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
Know that the greatest fear is fear of the unknown.
Seek to meet the unknown with courage and a sense of adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
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You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Choose to soar. Choose to fly your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't die with your music still inside you.
Listen to your intuitive inner voice
and find what passion stirs your soul.
- Wayne Dyer
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain
A ship in harbor is safe -
but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
All our dreams can come true,
if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is lived in the living.
Set aside convention, caution,
and arbitrary "rules" about how
life is supposed to be lived.
Choose! Explore! Adventure!
Live life to the fullest.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As you awaken,
may your dreams greet you by name,
and may you answer, "Yes!"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be curious; be adventurous; live life full-out.
Accept the challenge, and reach for the brass ring.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The biggest adventure you can take is
to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
I'd rather see the world from another angle
- Jewel
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
Dance Lightly With Life:
Today is your day to
dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
soar your spirit,
unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember that life is an ADVENTURE, and cheer Whee...
all the way down the slippery razor-blade of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you
that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
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