Quotes About Adventure

Drive down any road, take a train or an airplane across the world, leave your old life behind, die and be born again~ wherever you arrive they'll be there first, glossy and rowdy and indistinguishable. The deep muscle of the world.

What will you do with your one precious, wild life?

You're like a little wild thing that was never sent to school.

As long as you're dancing, you can Break the rules. Sometimes breaking the rules is just Extending the rules. Sometimes there are no rules.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

There is nothing more pathetic than caution when headlong might save a life, even, possibly, your own.

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.

Starlings in Winter I feel my boots trying to leave the ground, I feel my heart pumping hard. I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.

Truly I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be. It's impossible not to remember wild and want it back. So if someday you can't find me you might look into that tree or—of course it's possible—under it.

All my life I have been restless- I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss- than wholeness- than staying at home.

I don't want to end up simply having visited the world.

Or maybe it's about the wonderful things that may happen if you break the ropes that are holding you.

I don't want to live a small life. Open your eyes ... open your life, open your hands.

Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?

I know several lives worth living.

I know I can walk through the world

We grew into that perilous place: we grew fond.

No, I'd never been to this country before. No, I didn't know where the roads would lead me. No, I didn't intend to turn back.

If this was lost, let us all be lost always.

Sometimes there are no rules.

I went to China, I went to Prague; I died, and was born in the spring; I found you, and loved you, again.

I have refused to live locked in the orderly house of reasons and proofs.

What kind of life is it always to plan and do, to promise and finish, to wish for the near and the safe? Yes, by the heavens, if I wanted a boat I would want a boat I couldn't steer.