"Living each day as a preparation for the……" — Hortense Odlum
"Living each day as a preparation for the next is an exciting way to live. Looking forward to something is much more fun than looking back at somethingand much more constructive. If we can prepare ourselves so that we never have to think, 'Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready,' our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be."
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12 Quotes by Hortense Odlum
Hortense Odlum has 12 quotes on this site.
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Adventure, without it, why live?
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Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure…
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No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.
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If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he…
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How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in…
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It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day…
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One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing…
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With only one life to live we can't afford to live it only for itself. Somehow we must each for…
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Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay…
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It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.
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No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
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