“Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.” WritingHumansLittlesAgeLastsYoungSpiritHuman BeingsPleasureMiddleYouthAdventurePureQuietAnxietyDialogueOld AgeDrunkEnjoyedDescriptionJoyfulMiddle AgesTurmoilPuritanAnnoyancePleasures Of LifeLimboYoung FriendsWriting Dialogue Author:George Santayana
“Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of living and becomes most truly and deeply himself, fulfilling his own nature in the context of a good life with other people.” PeopleWayHumansSeemsHuman BeingsAdventureExcellenceGood LifeFulfilling Book:The Conspiracy Against Childhood Source: The Conspiracy Against Childhood
“the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.” HumansDreamHuman BeingsTeacherAdventureCallingCraftsInwardPrivilegedOne LoveBest Teacher Author:George Steiner
“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?” PeopleWayShouldHumansFactsHandsFormDesireHuman BeingsPleasureQualityAcceptingWonderParticularAdventureMetsUniqueInstinctAcceptedClockBehaveCollectivesKeyboards Author:Paulo Coelho
“Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.” HumansAgeYoungSpiritHuman BeingsAdventureQuietAgingOld AgeTurmoil Book:Persons and Places: My host the world Source: Persons and Places: My host the world
“Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components: love, adventure, power and fame.” WantLoveHumansHuman BeingsPowerFourAdventureFameDividedComponentsLove Adventure Author:Matthew Heywood
“The greatest adventure that can happen to a human being is the movement from mind to no-mind, the movement from personality to individuality. The no-mind has an individuality: the mind is social.” MindHumansHappensSocialHuman BeingsMovementAdventurePersonalityIndividualityGreatest Adventure Author:Rajneesh
“Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.” WayLifeHumansTwoLastsRememberTurnsHuman BeingsStepsSunAdventureVictoryHigherThousandLateHotDefeatEdgesBoardsToo LateClimbingSwimmingPoolWetPlatformsRetreatTwo WaysDivingSwimming PoolDemolishHot Sun Author:Richard Bach
“Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.” PeopleHumansSoulRealityMightRunningSpiritFearHuman BeingsCasesRiskPossibilityAdventurePersonalityOvercomingAliensReachingRunning AwayPsychicsNucleusAnathema Author:Carl Jung