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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #2
    Oprah Winfrey
    “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #3
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”
    Roy T. Bennett

  • #4
    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    G.K. Chesterton

  • #5
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #6
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #7
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #8
    Jason Mraz
    “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
    Jason Mraz

  • #9
    Mary Downing Hahn
    “You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”
    Mary Downing Hahn, The Dead Man in Indian Creek

  • #10
    Beryl Markham
    “There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”
    Beryl Markham, West with the Night

  • #11
    Colleen Houck
    “What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know.”
    Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

  • #12
    André Gide
    “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
    André Gide

  • #13
    Norman Rockwell
    “The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.”
    Norman Rockwell

  • #14
    Ellen Potter
    “All great adventures have moments that are really crap.”
    Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy

  • #15
    Ellen Potter
    “Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.”
    Ellen Potter, The Kneebone Boy

  • #16
    Billie-Jo Williams
    “Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.”
    Billie-Jo Williams

  • #17
    Virginia Woolf
    “What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #18
    Virginia Woolf
    “He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.”
    Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

  • #19
    John Green
    “I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #20
    Federico García Lorca
    “To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
    Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

  • #21
    “Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
    Sarah Cross, Kill Me Softly

  • #22
    J.M. Barrie
    “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

  • #23
    Julia Quinn
    “She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”
    Julia Quinn, The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

  • #24
    Shannon L. Alder
    “The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #25
    Shannon L. Alder
    “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #26
    Christine Seifert
    “We're cool," I say calmly, although I feel something else. I feel... sad. Like I've lost something I never quite had.”
    Christine Seifert, The Predicteds

  • #27
    Carol Rifka Brunt
    “Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
    Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

  • #28
    Francesca Lia Block
    “I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.”
    Francesca Lia Block, Dangerous Angels

  • #29
    Sanober  Khan
    “the saddest thing is to be
    a minute to someone,
    when you've made them your eternity.”
    Sanober Khan

  • #30
    Thornton Wilder
    “The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
    Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey



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