Quotes About Adventure

our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive

Ser, arriesgarnos a vivir y disfrutar de nuestra vida, es lo único que importa.

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said, if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

pitching deck of an icebreaker.

Everything is strange the first time you do it, Moth. Second time makes it normal. Third time it's boring.

If you know where you are going, you are not learning. (p. 16)

And that is the story of the boy who cried Dragon! Of course, when dragons sit around the campire at night or tuck their children into bed, they tell the story of the dragon who cried Boy!

I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.

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avanço sempre mais decidido quando não sei o que me espera

Is a novel anything but a trap set for a hero?

In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted backdrop for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, though soon forgotten, sparkles the morning after with the dew of novelty. No longer a backdrop, it is now the adventure itself, an adventure enacted before the backdrop of the commonly accepted banality of private life.

If you don't care about the destination, you don't ask where you're going.

He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.

Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.

Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge.

She now knew there were conditions under which she could feel strong and fulfilled, and she longed to go off into the world and seek those conditions somewhere else.

The man of fantasy must become the man of action, the adventure of dreams the adventure of life.

He reflected that he had only one life and that he wanted to live it somewhere else.

Now what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained. Saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through Zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. New adventures hid around each corner. The future was again a secret.

What is a novel if not a trap for catching a hero?

Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.

But once he got over the astounding strangeness of his new life (it took him about a week), he suddenly realized he was simply on a long holiday.