Quotes About Adventure

He penned a letter to the Company in London, a letter whose unfailing spirit would become legendary among the sailors of the East India Company. 'I cannot tell where you should looke for me.' he wrote, 'because I live at the devotion of the winds and seas.' (Written by/about Captain James Lancaster, on the ship Red Dragon, during a terrible storm, 1603)

Compreende-se por que, numa sociedade de indivíduos destinados à autonomia privada o atrativo do Novo é tão vivo: ele é sentido como instrumento de "liberação" pessoal, como experiência a ser tentada e vivida, pequena aventura do Eu.

Consumimos em espetáculo aquilo que a vida real nos recusa: sexo porque estamos frustrados, aventura porque nada de palpitante agita nossas existências no dia a dia; ...

Take the great adventure of living the difficult day. - Home for Christmas

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.

During the next eight years Bell lived in an Aboriginal community of about six hundred people near Alice Springs.I "I dropped out of school, stopped wearing shoes, and went hunting with people every chance I got," she said. She learned to extract water from desert frogs and snacked on "witchetty grubs," a type of Australian caterpillar that lives among tree roots. "I was very fortunate. I had the most blessed childhood."2

We don't want to settle down anymore; we've been settled, like some western township, and now we want to kick up the dust and tear down the fences. Not only won't we settle down; we also won't settle for less than what we've always wanted: a good time and a fair fight.

To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something you've never done before? There's only one way to find out.

What we seek when we wander usually leads us back home.

Embrace those parts of yourself that you've skillfully avoided until now. That's your true adventure.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won't feel like your first.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Is there a place you can go to break away for a little while? If you haven't yet built your tree house, it's never too late to start.

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead, and have fun with what happens.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing the surprises of each moment.

Much of what we acquire in life isn't worth dragging to the next leg of our journey. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.

During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.