"Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive."

-- Royal Robbins

#Order Quotes #Risk Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.”
“This killing of Israel athletes is an act of war. And if there's one place that war doesn't belong, it's here. 1200 years. From 776 B.C. to 393 A.D., your fellow Olympians laid down their arms to take part in these games. They understood there was more honor in out running a man than in killing him. I hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war â€“Â competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.”
“Every sign of gratitude is a sign of hope”

Source : Jeffrey Burton Russell (2007). “Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It”, p.132, Oxford University Press
“There's bits of my heart in different countries around the world in which I travel.”
“There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.”

Source : William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1878). “Literary Essays”
“Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.”
“It takes a fierce devotion to defend your artistic space, and eternal vigilance over it, because the needs of others will grow like vines in your little plot and claim it back for the jungle.”

Source : Judith Ortiz Cofer (2000). “Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer”, p.88, University of Georgia Press
“And through it all she offers me protection, a lot of love and affection whether I'm right or wrong. And down the waterfall where ever it may take me I know that life won't break me When I come to call, she won't forsake me I'm loving angels instead.”

Source : "Song: "Angels"". 1997.

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