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• We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Encounters, Flags

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• The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to walk upon ice or sand, or climb the mountains or take craft upon the sea. But surely he was never meant to fly? But he does, and finding out how to do it was his last great adventure.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Lonely, Adventure, Men

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• To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

  Boris Pasternak

  Adventure, Men, Mad

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• It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

  John Phillips

  Travel, Home, Adventure

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• I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

  Anthony Perkins

  Travel, Adventure, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.

  Joseph Bayly

  Death, Adventure, Moon

  Joseph Bayly (1969). “The View from a Hearse: A Christian View of Death”

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• In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

  Roger Staubach

  Travel, Adventure, People

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• If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Trust, Travel, Adventure

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• When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Buddhist

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• If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

  Robert Kennedy

  Adventure, Two, Humanity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility.

  Gary Snyder

  Adventure, Humility, Walking Meditation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.19, Counterpoint Press

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• Then there are those who plant. they endure storms and all the many vicissitudes of the seasons, and they rarely rest. But, unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And while it requires the gardener's constant attention, it also allows life for the gardener to be a great adventure.

  Paulo Coelho

  Adventure, Garden, Storm

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• I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

  Clara Blandick

  Pain, Suicidal, Adventure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

  Frank Moore Colby

  Travel, Failure, Heart

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.

  Henry Miller

  Adventure, Self, Space

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

  Anne Carson

  Book, Adventure, Confusing

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• The Great Commission is the Great Adventure of Christianity.

  Ron Luce

  Adventure, Missionary, Christianity

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• All great adventures have moments that are really crap.

  Ellen Potter

  Travel, Adventure, Moments

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.248, Macmillan

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• Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Heart, Adventure

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.69, Bantam

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• I think it is better for all people to live on, to look forward to the next stage (after death), as if he had to spend centuries, then he lives properly... looking forward to the great adventure ahead, then he lives!

  Carl Jung

  Adventure, Thinking, People

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• ...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away... from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Lying, Twilight, Heart

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Lost World: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.8, 谷月社

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• That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of God, who also longs for this. He does not want to be an option in our lives. He does not want to be an appendage, a tagalong. Neither does any woman. God is essential. He wants us to need him-desperately. Eve is essential. She has an irreplaceable role to play. And so you'll see that women are endowed with fierce devotion, an ability to suffer great hardships, a vision to make the world a better place

  Stasi Eldredge

  Heart, Adventure, Play

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say ‘It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.’

  Joanna Macy

  Hero, Heart, Adventure

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• You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Believe, Adventure

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• The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Leadership, Adventure, Race

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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