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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller The Open Door · 1957

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“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

Eleanor Roosevelt · Tomorrow is Now, 1963 · Primary source

“Many remedies are suggested for the avoidance of worry and mental overstrain by persons who, over prolonged periods, have to bear exceptional responsibilities and discharge duties upon a very large scale. Some advise exercise, and others, repose. Some counsel travel, and others, retreat. Some praise solitude, and others, gaiety. No doubt all these may play their part according to the individual temperament. But the element which is constant and common in all of them is Change.”

Winston Churchill · Painting as a Pastime, 1948 · Primary source

“He touched her for the last time and then they turned away from each other and walked off into their different lives.”

Ian Fleming · Moonraker, 1955 · Primary source

“A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.”

Helen Keller · No reliable source

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841
Circles

An exploration of change, intellectual growth and recurring expansion, arguing that each established idea can be surpassed by a wider perspective.

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