What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.
~ Margery Williams, / "The Velveteen Rabbit"

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
~Charles Kingsley

Those who dance are thought to be quite insane by those who cannot hear the music.
~ Maggie Erotokritou

To dare is to lose one's footing temporarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
~ Soren Kierkegaard

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
~ Rumi

An adventure is going into the unknown. If you know exactly where you are going, exactly how you will get there, and exactly what you will see along the way, it is not an adventure...
Because they involve the unknown,
adventures are inherently dangerous to a greater or lesser degree. Yet it is also only from adventures and their newness that we learn. If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
~M. Scott Peck