Quotes About Adventure

Wild game (venison, caribou):

To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you're so engrossed in what you're doing you don't notice–it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos.

Every explorer is therefore, by necessity, a revolutionary, and every successful revolutionary is a peacemaker.

To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure.

To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you're so engrossed in what you're doing you don't notice—it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos. The

I know someone who was actually chased by a squirrel.)

That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warriors, and founders of cities and states. That is the father you could rescue; the ancestor you could become. And he is to be discovered in the deepest possible place, as that is where you must go if you wish to take full responsibility and become who you could be.

The conversation of mutual exploration, by contrast, requires people who have decided that the unknown makes a better friend than the known.

the individual brave enough to voluntarily beard the serpent in his lair is most likely to gain access to the untold riches that exist in potential, awaiting us in the adventure of our life, away from security and what is currently known. Who dares wins*—if he does not perish.

Where might you learn how to play? Everywhere . . . if you are fortunate and awake.

Almost all learning happens in spite of fear, because to learn something you have to explore something new and that is usually something that is frightening. If you are willing to face something that is frightening, you can garter something of value.

The Land You Know, the Land You Do Not Know, and the Land You Cannot Even Imagine

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know.

We are dormant adventurers, lovers, leaders, artists, and rebels, but need to discover that we are all those things by seeing the reflection of such patterns in dramatic and literary form.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

I'd always thought that rules were just for people who tended to get caught.

if gambling is exciting, you're doing it wrong.

if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.

People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.

Para eso se es joven, para probar cosas, para experimentar. Para eso y para desafiarlo todo.

É como se corresse sobre o mar para as estrelas, na mais maravilhosa viagem do mundo. Uma viagem como o Professor nunca leu nem inventou. Seu coração bate tanto, tanto, que ele o aperta com a mão.

Finalmente ia transpor o duro tempo, a negra noite, o deserto de luto e solidão: outra vez em cavalgada partiria a vadiar.

Apelidaram-no de Professor porque num livro furtado ele aprendera a fazer mágicas com lenços e níqueis e também porque, contando aquelas histórias que lia e muitas que inventava, fazia a grande e misteriosa mágica de os transportar para mundos diversos, fazia com que os olhos vivos dos Capitães da Areia brilhassem como só brilham as estrelas da noite da Bahia.