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Quotes About Adventure

Pedro Bala também só tinha quinze anos, mas há muito tempo conhecia não só o areal e os seus segredos, como os segredos do amor das mulheres. Porque se os homens conhecem esses segredos muito antes que as mulheres, os Capitães da Areia os conheciam muito antes que qualquer homem.
~ Jorge Amado
In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
~ Jorge Bucay
Dice un refrán japonés que «es mejor viajar lleno de esperanzas que llegar». La frase tiene la virtud de ayudarnos a entender la importancia de ponerle ilusión al camino.
~ Jorge Valdano
I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy
~ Jose Marti
Elimden gelse seninle sekiz yüz elli iki bin kilometre hiç durmadan konuÅŸurdum. -Bu kadar yola nas?l benzin yetiÅŸtiririz? -Gider gibi yapar?z.
~ José Mauro de Vasconcelos
Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
es preferible lo malo conocido a lo bueno por conocer.
~ José Ingenieros
There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.
~ Joseph Addison
When you follow your bliss . . . doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
~ Joseph Campbell
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
~ Joseph Campbell
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
~ Joseph Campbell
If you are falling....dive.
~ Joseph Campbell
The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known ... we have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we shall be with all the world.
~ Joseph Campbell
Goodbye, brothers! You were a good crowd. As good a crowd as ever fisted with wild cries the beating canvas of a heavy foresail; or tossing aloft, invisible in the night, gave back yell for yell to a westerly gale.
~ Joseph Conrad
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
~ Joseph Conrad
Running… all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.
~ Joseph Conrad
We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness
~ Joseph Conrad
She was holding the Starblade. It was Alice.
~ Joseph Delaney
My life only began the day I was apprenticed to Tom Ward. - Jenny, in her diary
~ Joseph Delaney
How did you escape from Scotland?" I asked. "By terrifying a poor fisherman into bringing me here," she replied with a fierce smile. "I paid him by sparing his life.
~ Joseph Delaney
It will be dangerous but I do not mind dangerous. I am brave.
~ Joseph Elliot
I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
~ Joseph Force Crater