Quotes About Adventure

we need randomness, mess, adventures, uncertainty, self-discovery, near-traumatic episodes, all these things that make life worth living

yet people do it out of the foolish risk-taking trait that pushes us to jump into such adventures blinded by the outcome.

We inherited the taste for uncalculated risk taking. Should we encourage such behavior?

But you are already there; why take more risks?

You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.

The sea gets deeper as you go further into it

We need people to take (bounded) risks.

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

exposure is more important than knowledge;

He can work any hours he likes, travel at a whim, and engage in all manner of personal pursuits.

Existen personas para las que cualquier pequeño viaje o perspectiva de viaje supone aprensión y cansancio; una empresa agotadora. Para otras es un acto simple como sonarse la nariz.

Readers are lucky -– they will never be bored or lonely.

And Winnie, laughing at him, lost the last of her alarm. They were friends, her friends. She was running away after all, but she was not alone. Closing

And soon they were rolling on again, leaving Treegap behind, and as they went, the tinkling little melody of a music box drifted out behind them and was lost at last far down the road.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life.

The first house only is important; the first house, the road, and the wood.

You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. Theories of Time and Space

She slammed down on the accelerator and headed north at eighty-five, dodging wreckage like a skier running a slalom.

This earth is the distant star we must find a way to reach.

Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.

El desastre del Essex no es un relato de aventuras. Es una tragedia que además resulta ser una de las historias verdaderas más grandes que jamás se hayan contado.

I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide

On October 21, Tronstad arrived at King's Cross station in London.

Knut Haugland spent 101 days in 1947 as the radio operator on the Kon-Tiki, a simple raft that crossed the Pacific Ocean with only a six-man crew. Beyond offering great adventure, the journey exorcised his own demons.