“Although I don't know much about anything, I know that I have a story. I know that it is not over. There… — Emily Barr Copy Share Image
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Ghostly legends dot the Prairie State from its big cities to its small towns. These stories make each community unique in a… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Abstractions do us much harm by impelling us to the quest of the absolute in all things. Joy does not exist, but… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Elijah: You are a dangerous woman. Valeria: You do not know the half of it, but I suppose you are not one… — Cristina M. Sburlea Copy Share Image
“The truth is that he (Casanova) had ceased subtly to be an adventurer to become a noisy scoundrel, or if that is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
R.G. Belsky's thought-provoking thriller, The Kennedy Connection, introduces us to a smart, witty, and human hero whose quest to find answers about… — Jan Burke Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you about… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s, and you had these original, big-budget sci-fi adventure things all the time, not based on any… — Travis Beacham Copy Share Image
“we cannot calculate our important contests, adventures, and great loves to the end. The only thing we can really count on is… — Josh Waitzkin Copy Share Image
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The best advice I've got was - "All you have is the process. All you have is the journey of making something.… — A Fine Frenzy Copy Share Image
In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Today, the pain, the stoking, the thrill of someone new, the promise of so much bliss hovering a fingertip away, the fumbling… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I want not to love him, not even I forget. Love is worship real, but only if we met?? They say body… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber… — John Muir Copy Share Image
If you have come to these pages for laughter, may you find it. If you are here to be offended, may your… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“In short, the interaction between science and religion in the Middle Ages was not an abstract encounter between bodies of fixed ideas… — Gary B. Ferngren Copy Share Image
“Freuchen tells how one day, after coming home hungry from an unsuccessful walrus-hunting expedition, he found one of the successful hunters dropping… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
The greatest thrill is that moment when a thousand people are sitting in the dark, looking at the same scene, and they… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Our lives can be considered a sacred quest. It is a quest which may have begun in this lifetime or many lifetimes… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly… — Adam A. Watt Copy Share Image
“Gluttony - that's my vice & curse. I want too much of everything. Books... Love... Music... Color & Form... Philosophy... Travel &… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Bastian looked at the book. 'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
“What unified the Balochis in their quest to regain self-determination, which resulted in the ‘existing state’? On the one hand, authoritarianism, militarization,… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“When you truly believe in the desires of your heart, they show themselves to you, creating a world you wish to see.… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“The Anadens have a somewhat different perspective on death.” “On account of not having to deal with it, sure. Personally, I think… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and deciding he’s going to… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
“To Tarzan of the Apes the expedition was in the nature of a holiday outing. His civilization was at best but an… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
“I edited that [men's adventure] stuff, I read it all. I went from that to The Saturday Evening Post. The very first… — Mel Shestack Copy Share Image
As Razam so aptly demonstrates, a new kind of traveler is emerging-one that embarks into the mysterious and uncharted domain within, where… — Yossi Ghinsberg Copy Share Image
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I'm not a parenting expert. In fact, I'm not sure that I even believe in the idea of 'parenting experts.' I'm an… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“to the winds, flushed with the thrill of a new case, and Santosh’s phone was ringing—Jack was on his way over. Chapter… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image