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There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by praying. Any great military operation takes careful planning, or… — George S. Patton
Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you… — David Whyte
My story starts at sea, a perilous voyage to an unknown land. A shipwreck. The wild waters roar and heave. The brave vessel is dashed… — William Shakespeare
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it… — Madeleine L'Engle
One of the most exiting things about being pregnant is that I just am accepting the complete unknown; it's a complete mystery and miracle. — Natalie Portman
I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much… — Lauren Graham
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every country is renewed out of the unknown ranks and not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control. — Woodrow Wilson
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write. — Finley Peter Dunne
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness… — Ella Maillart
Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. — George Shinn
Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing… — Tony Robbins
The spiritual journey involves going beyond hope and fear, stepping into unknown territory, continually moving forward. The most important aspect of being on the spiritual… — Pema Chodron
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any… — Henry David Thoreau
For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which… — Carl Sagan
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo

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