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“ So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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“ The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.
Laura Ingalls Wilder (via justbesplendid)
thegirlandherbooks:WISHBONE!
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“ I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Robert Lynd (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“ Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley (via monkeyknifefight)
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“ Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy.
Aristotle (via burnthazel)
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“ I wanted to give a snapshot. I think what a lot of people felt about the tone of the epilogue was, ‘So this is it, so it’s over, so he’s not a hero anymore, he’s a sort of middle-aged man… It felt like a let-down.’ But I have said this before: for me, absolute heroism is rebuilding after that kind of trauma. And I could think of nothing more noble than that he’s acting what Dumbledore preached but didn’t live. So you see, Dumbledore preached, ‘these are the values that see us through, that survive, love and those sort of human bonds,’ and Harry’s actually living it. So he was always the guy to me who had it thrust upon him […] and the fact that he had the chance to have his finger on the nuclear button, as it were, he had the chance to own this most powerful wand, and he said, ‘No, I want that one, I want my own and I want to break the chain.’
J.K. Rowling, A Conversation with J.K. Rowling & Daniel Radcliffe (48:38)
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“ Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the years that have passed, there has never been another child like you. Your legs, your arms, your clever fingers, the way you move. You may become a Shakespeare, a Michelangelo, a Beethoven. You have the capacity for anything. Yes, you are a marvel. And when you grow up, can you then harm another who is, like you, a marvel? You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Picasso (via equanimities)
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“ I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where we once were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip from slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory, and your memory faced by distant fog, and your fog memorized by a distant face, and your distance distanced by the memorized memory of a foggy fog. I will love you no matter where you go and who you see, no matter where you avoid and who you don’t see, and no matter who sees you avoiding where you go. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this, and no matter how I am discovered after what happens to me as I am discovering this.
Lemony Snicket (via cosive)
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