It is not down in any map, true places never are.

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""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""

- Herman Melville

Courage

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

- Herman Melville

Adversity

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

Creativity

"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"

- Herman Melville

Aspirations

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"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

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"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

- William James

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"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

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