Quotes About Adventure

Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces? I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can't do.

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

she would follow her father over the horizon and down the other side, where the world lay hidden.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly, you will be okay.

It's actually quite a good ethos for life: go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay. I

go into the unknown with truth, commitment, and openness and mostly you'll be okay.

Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Flying involves endless hours of sheer boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.

I was as you are now. A peasant. I sought the world. Because the alternative was to spend the rest of my life looking up a plowhorse's backside.

You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a little.

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. — AndrÉ Gide

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Alan MacDonald

Bertie looked up from the comic he was reading. "It's OK," he said. "I can look after myself." It would be great not having a babysitter. Suzy was sleeping over at Bella's so he would have the house all to himself.

Dearest dumpling, one day your imagination is going to get you into trouble," whispered his mother. He would never do that," Pecorino replied. "We're best friends.

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

I've been to Australia. I've met the devil drank beer and snogged kangaroos.