So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Jon KrakauerTag: inspirational change complacency
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted
George KellerTag: perception creativity complacency
The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness.
'Extra! Extra! Zeppelins over the North Sea at 3 o'clock.'
But under the umbrella, in the raspberry universe, they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?
Tag: war complacency lovers park
Complacency delivered us into the hands of evil greedy men like Cheney.
Sonia RumziTag: politics evil greed complacency complacent
And like blots upon the landscape rose the cupolas above the ways to the Underworld. I understood now what all the beauty of the Upperworld people covered. Very pleasant was their day, as pleasant as the day of the cattle in the eld. Like the cattle, they knew of no enemies and provided against no needs. And their end was the same.
H.G. WellsTag: spiritual-warfare complacency
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.
C.S. LewisTag: security complacency
You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.
Julien SmithTag: truth fight struggle growth fighting growing comfort complacency complacent complacence
A person is not like a thing that you put down in one place and leave, a person moves, thinks, asks, questions, doubts, investigates, probes, and while it is true that, out of a long habit of resignation, he sooner or later ends up looking as if he has submitted to the objects, don't go thinking that this apparent submission is necessarily permanent.
José SaramagoTag: growth complacency
We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
Mike PattonTag: happiness contentment attitude complacency disposition
The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often
subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.
Tag: security complacency
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