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“Life is there ahead of you and either one tests oneself in its challenges or huddles in the valleys of a dreamless day-to-day existence whose only purpose is the preservation of a illusory security and safety. The latter is what the vast majority of people choose to do, fearing the adventure into the known.”

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.”

Firsts Might Eye Existence Land Childhood Adventure Setting Settings Instant Perpetual Truest

Book:Maps and Legends

Source: Maps and Legends

“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”

Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power

“Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.”

Knows Soul Existence Adventure Sorrow Conscious Melancholy Quests Knights Countenance Sentimentality

Book:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

“I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.”

Ifs Courses Sex Existence Adventure Scene Everyday Everyday Life Discrete

Author:Alan Moore

“Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.”

Giving Doe House Grows Realizing Existence Adventure Empty Core Relate Vain Significance Routine Chamber Counting Manifold Humdrum

Author:Lewis Mumford

“If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.”

Ifs Feels Should Whole Existence Our Lives Adventure Mets Justified

Book:My works and days: a personal chronicle

Source: My works and days: a personal chronicle

“Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.”

Kind Imagination Existence Our Lives Mystery Adventure Defeat Mortals Never Ending Strangeness Dreary Unforeseen

Author:Walter de La Mare

“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.”

World Existence Alive Dangerous Danger Adventure Towns Regard Experiments Encounters Judged Flags Schemes Assault Shrinks Calamity Traitor Dangerous Things Great Adventure

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

Thinking Men Should Whole Happens Belief Grows Existence Accepting Knowledge Learning Awareness Adventure Discovery Absolutes Management Constant Code Willingness Formulas Stakes

Author:Martin Buber

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)”

Two Different Faces Existence Risk Adventure Circumstances Promise Seeking Justification Face To Face

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.”

People Inspirational Mind Existence Heard Adventure Travel Borders

Author:Thor Heyerdahl

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

“From depression to ceiling fans, I've been through it all. I've taken almost every step that life has to offer and invariably I've found several different endings to my Choose Your Own Adventure stories. I've lived, loved, sacrificed and scraped for this existence, this paltry little city state I call my time so far. And by God, I wouldn't change a single frame of this movie.”

Littles Different States Stories Found Cities Existence Steps Taken Fans Adventure Offers Memorable My Time Ceilings Every Step

Author:Corey Taylor

“A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the gut. I'm not saying you have to live your life like a fantasy adventure. The trick is the ability to synthesize your own everyday experiences into your fiction. Infuse your characters with believable emotions and motivations. Infuse your world with rich sensory detail. For that you have to be in touch with your own existence and your own soul, the dark and the light of it.”