"Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person."

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Source : Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.174, Penguin

Yvon Chouinard

#Real Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Journey Quotes

“All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.”

Source : "Shakespeare had no BlackBerry and Aristotle mananged without an iPhone" by writes Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2009.
“My thinking about plastic surgery is this. I haven't had it, but never say never. Because when you do, you are definitely going to go there.”
“I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.”
“All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.”
“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

Source : "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.
“Jazz is the music of the body.”
“As a boy, I used to look upon the hieroglyphics as so many wonderful pictures.”
“I've always hated quotation marks: they're ugly on the page and they classify the text for you, putting dialogue in one box and narration in another.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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