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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

  Jim Elliot

  Knowing, Earth, Pleasure

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• I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Sacrifice, Movement, Chance

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.50, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Traditionally, I have responded to the transcendent mystics of all religions. I have always responded with breathless excitement to anyone who has ever said that God does not live in a dogmatic scripture or in a distant throne in the sky, but instead abides very close to us indeed- much closer than we can imagine, breathing right through our own hearts.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Heart, Sky, Breathing

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Care, Grain

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.220, Harper Collins

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• I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Essence, Romance

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.250, Penguin

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• Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.

  Wendell Berry

  Challenges, Feelings, Risk

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• It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry. Imagine then the interest that surrounded Miss Wintertowne! No young lady ever had such advantages before: for she died upon the Tuesday, was raised to life in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and was married upon the Thursday; which some people thought too much excitement for one week.

  Susanna Clarke

  Morning, People, Tuesday

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.116, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Strive, Should

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• Being raised in an unstable household makes you understand that the world doesn't exist to accommodate you, which... is something a lot of people struggle to understand well into their adulthood. It makes you realize how quickly a situation can shift, how danger really is everywhere. But crises when the occur, do not catch you off guard; you have never believed you lived under a shelter of some essential benevolence. And an unstable childhood makes you appreciate calmness and not crave excitement.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Struggle, People, Appreciate

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• Before you know it you'll be my age telling your own granddaughter the story of your life and you wanna make it an interesting one, don't you? You wanna be able to tell her some adventures, some excitements, some something. How you live your life, little one, is a gift for those who come after you, a kind of inheritance.

  Cristina Garcia

  Adventure, Interesting, Live Your Life

  Cristina Garcia (2009). “I Wanna Be Your Shoebox”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Joy, Mirth

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Travel, Somewhere Else, Horizon

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.

  Dallas Willard

  Confused, Reality, Ideas

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• That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

  Don DeLillo

  Vacation, People, Relax

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Mysterious, Language

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.130, Parkstone International

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• The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Horse, Stars, Eye

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• What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.

  Atul Gawande

  Nice, Skills, Discipline

  Atul Gawande (2010). “The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right”, p.183, Profile Books

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• I think the tingles are important. They are real, and I am in favor of their survival. But they are not the basis for a satisfactory marriage. I am not suggesting that on should marry without the tingles. Those warm, excited feelings, the chill bumps, that sense of acceptance, the excitement of the touch that make up the tingles serve as the cherry on top of the sundae. But you cannot have a sundae with only the cherry.

  Gary Chapman

  Real, Acceptance, Thinking

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• If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy.
  But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Pain, Overcoming

  "Jimmy Carter on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• In this simple but profound psychological way Scripture tells the history of the fall and of the origin of sin. In this way sin continues still to come into being. It begins with the darkening of the understanding, continues with the excitement of the imagination, stimulates desire in the heart, and culminates in an act of the will

  Herman Bavinck

  Fall, Heart, Simple

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• The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

  John Garrett

  Teacher, Jobs, Children

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• Kids go where there is excitement. They stay where there is love.

  Zig Ziglar

  Family, Friends, Children

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• Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Uplifting, Creativity, Recovery

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• Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

  Oswald Chambers

  Health, Doe, Saint

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• Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Sep 07, 2013

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