Quotes About Adventure - Where to Next?
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When a man is a traveler, the world is his home and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home and all the people are his family.
Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don't know you're having one until you're right in the middle of it.
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them." "Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it." "Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization." "The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t.
Adventure isn't hanging off a rope on the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life.
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated all possible factors and have determined that risk.
An adventurous life does not necessarily mean climbing mountains, swimming with sharks, or jumping off cliffs. It means risking yourself by leaving a little piece of you behind in all those you meet along the way.
I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.
The life that I could still live, I should live and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think.
Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Stop staring at mountains. Climb them instead, yes, it's a harder process but it will lead you to a better view.
Then I realized that to be more alive, I had to be less afraid. So I did it. I lost my fear and gained my whole life.
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
For an adventurous life, seek not security. Dance with uncertainty to create magnificence and beauty.
Life is not an equation to be solved; it is an adventure of consciousness to be thrilled and enjoyed.
I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it beckoned to him once more and a new adventure was about to be opened to him.
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
When the new becomes commonplace, people become accustomed to it. That's a tribute to our sense of adventure.
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more that what we could learn from books.
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
If adventurers were cowardly, no one would have crossed the nations; if sailors were fearful, no one would have crossed the oceans; if pilots were gutless, no one would have crossed the skies.
Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.
A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.
Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.
I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self…. And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.
Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
Life's the adventure. You don't have to drop your bundle and go bush. It's about being brave within the context that you're in.
I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.
The biggest adventure is to move into an area in which you are not an expert. Sometimes I joke that I am not interested in doing re-search, only search.
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.
Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.
It's more of an adventure when you set off into unknown territory, and there's nothing like that feeling you get when you discover a place on the Earth where no one has ever been.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'
Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.
For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.
Years go by. I go here, I go there, I have all sorts of adventures, and then I look back and say, 'Wow that's kind of an unusual way to live your life.'
My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
Adventurer: he that goes to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another.
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
And then there is the most dangerous risk of all -- the risk of spending your life not doing what you want, on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
I urge you; go find buildings and mountains and oceans to swallow you whole. They will save you, in a way nothing else can.
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.
Always there has been an adventure just around the corner -- and the world is still full of corners.
You have to have a spirit of courage and adventure, or else you're going to find it tough to get up in the morning sometimes.
We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures.
Prepare for joy -- speak your truth, care for yourself, expand your knowledge, nurture your friendships, let people love you, take on new adventures, go where your heart leads you.
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
Having a perilous adventure is always better than comatose safety. Always, always, always, always, always.
Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
You can choose between being a victim of destiny or an adventurer who is fighting for something important.
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible?
