"Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life."

-- Mary Anne Radmacher

#Life Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Adventure Quotes

“Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.”

Source : Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”
“I was ten,â€ I said. â€œGive me a little credit.â€ â€œTo a boy with aspirations like that, I would extend my respectâ€”but not credit. Or life insurance.â€ Abraham sounded amused. â€œYou are an interesting man, David Charleston, but you sound like you were an even more interesting child.”
“If we conceive that anyone loves, desires, or hates anything which we ourselves love, desire, or hate, we shall thereupon regard the thing in question with more steadfast love, etc. On the contrary, if we think that anyone shrinks from something that we love, we shall undergo vacillation of the soul.”
“There's no such thing as altruism.”
“When thou art offended at any man's fault, forthwith turn to thyself and reflect in what manner thou doest error thyself... For by attending to this thou wilt quickly forget thy anger, if this consideration is also added, that the man is compelled; for what else could he do? or, if thou art able, take away from him the compulsion.”
“Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.”
“Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.”
“It's hard to separate your remembered childhood and its emotional legacy from the childhoods that are being lived out in your house, by your children. If you're lucky, your kids will help you make that distinction.”

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