Quotes About Adventure

In fact the best plan would have you wintering in the Bahamas, spend hurricane season in DR and PR, the next winter in the Virgins, Leewards and Windwards, the next summer in Venezuela and the third winter in Trinidad. Now you've got lots of time.

Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.

He disappears, and her endless wanderings in search of him take her to the moon, the sun, and the wind.

Therefore, even more than at the times fairy tales were invented, it is important to provide the modern child with images of heroes who have to go out into the world all by themselves and who, although originally ignorant of the ultimate things, find secure places in the world by following their right way with deep inner confidence.

It was this line of thinking that led Murchison to become an outlaw, a defiant hot oiler. From 1932 until 1934, in fact, he may have been the biggest hot oiler in all of East Texas, and he didn't especially care who knew.

Danger is cool.

Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

Every adventure undertaken, every prophecy spoken or sung, every dangerous road pointed to this simple truth - a battle between good and evil rages every day.

Like Doctor Who's TARDIS, or like the house in that book Anna had loaned him once, the one where a bunch of young assholes got lost while driving through a mountain range and wound up at the creepy manor home of a monster disguised as a human.

Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.

All life is a gamble, and every man must choose his own risks.

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.

When Dr. Jung said we must be able to look forward in old age to the next day and to look forward to the great adventure that is ahead, he was making life's "imperative to grow" personal. As long as we are alive, we must be able to dream of the future, of a better world or better ways of life. We are also invited by our greater Self to dream new dreams of creativity and fresh ways of expressing ourselves, as many great artists have into their nineties.

It is better to travel well than to arrive.

fortune always favors the bold.

Throughout his 720-page book Three Years of Arctic Service, Greely's

Orellana's achievement would later be called one of the world's greatest explorations, "something more than a journey, and more like a miraculous event.

Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, would

In places the Amazon sprawls a remarkable fifty miles wide; it can vary in depth with floodwaters or tides by as much as fifty feet; and, near its terminus at the Atlantic, it contains an island the size of Switzerland.

My restless, roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Now then, thought I, unconsciously rolling up the sleeves of my frock, here goes for a cool, collected dive at death and destruction, and the devil fetch the hindmost.

And the only mode in which you can derive even a tolerable idea of his living contour, is by going a whaling yourself; but by so doing, you run no small risk of being eternally stove and sunk by him. Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.

So with stun-sail piled on stun-sail, we sailed along