Quotes About Adventure

In these pages, traveling "solo" does not necessarily mean "alone." The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo" by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into the world, magnetizing us to new people and experiences we may not have encountered under any other circumstance.

The adventures of a lifetime begin with "Yes.

Want more fizz in your life? Shake things up.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

Diving in IS testing the water.

If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.

Boredom has a bad rap. Its true character reveals you are deep inside your comfort zone. Boredom is a docent beckoning toward the edges of a labyrinth.

Ten years ago I wondered, "How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?" I've answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Some people never get farther than where they start from, never find out what else there is, or ask questions, or get answers.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.

Por lo menos una vez en la vida cada mujer merecía enloquecer de esa manera

I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others And penetrate ever further through the eternal field, That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

Poi gli parve finalmente di essere giunto a una possibile meta: dietro l'ennesimo gomito di un vicolo era apparsa una casa bassa e lunga, percorsa su tutta la parete che dava sulla strada da un portico su cui campeggiava un'insegna dipinta a lettere scarlatte che volevano rozzamente imitare tante lingue di fiamma: LA MALA BOLGIA.

Sino alla morte in balia del viaggio

I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.

In the middle of the night, with his father and brother asleep, and his mother having an adventure, he felt fits of longing for places he'd never been, places he couldn't describe, and he wondered if there were anyone else like him in the world, awake and catching glimpses of the unknown. He wondered if he were truly related to his family, or if instead he had dropped among them, a changeling.

Everyone wants a long journey, kid. That's all. Next!

but it was humanly good to be touched too, to be alone with someone at the secret feast that went all the way back to Adam and Eve. You looked at each other and felt just how old the contract was, the warm-faced commitment to the adventure, the stepping together out of the light into the rewarding darkness.

There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them.

I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.....