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• Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Blessed, Hero

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• They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Epic, Doors

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• She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.

  Rick Riordan

  Fate, Goes On, World

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• Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the ship with Coach Hedge, which was maybe not a situation a caring girlfriend should put him in. Nor was she eager to let Percy out of her sight again—not after they’d been apart for so many months.

  Rick Riordan

  Girlfriend, Caring, Sight

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• Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

  Bill Bryson

  Order, Tiny, Moments

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013

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• I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.

  Rick Riordan

  Journey, Pups, New Start

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• There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Knowledge, Curiosity

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by the slightest breeze. It is spirit, such as it is, which led me to poetry, at first little more than a pastime, then the full business of my life. There have been times when my spirit, so dejected, almost gave up the quest, other times when it was proud, triumphant. So it has been from the very start, never finding peace with itself, always doubting the worth of what it makes.

  Matsuo Basho

  Writing, Poetry, Doubt

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• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Fall, Science, Simple

  Alfred North Whitehead (1964). “The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

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• If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Giving Up, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.77, A&C Black

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• To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

  Sam Keen

  Travel, Journey, Inspiring Travel

  Sam Keen (1991). “Fire in the belly: on being a man”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every advance achieved in the quest of pure knowledge will sooner or later play its part in the service of man.

  Ernest Starling

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  Ernest Henry Starling (1965). “Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart”

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• If you throw away all thoughts of attainment, you will then come to see the real purpose of your quest.

  Seungsahn

  Beautiful, Real, Purpose

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• After losing everything, I went on a quest to find out how money really works, how I could get control of it, and how I could have confidence in handling it.

  Dave Ramsey

  Money, Mistake, Losing Everything

  Dave Ramsey (2013). “The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.3, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences.

  Laurens van der Post

  Hero, Men, Degrees

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• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

  Hal Borland

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic.

  John Donne

  Success, Media, Achievement

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• Life is a quest and love a quarrel

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Inspirational Love, And Love

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.159, eBookIt.com

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• Spiritual seekers particularly are on a quest to understand life; we want to examine our own lives and find meaning in what we do and who we are. ... We find meaning in the seeking itself. Every step along the way is the Way.

  Surya Das

  Spiritual, Want, Who We Are

  Lama Surya Das (2010). “Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be”, p.22, Random House

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• When the quest of a dream has a detour or dip, look beyond your dismay and go finish the trip.

  Wes Fesler

  Dream, Determination, Looks

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• Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed.

  Hizkias Assefa

  Ignorance, Profound, Justice

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• I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.63, A&C Black

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• The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Simple, Taste

  Carlo Petrini (2007). “Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Unity, Way

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