Quotes About Adventure

A brand-new thought: Transatlantic airmail. She tests the phrase, scratching it out on the paper, over and over, transatlantic, trans atlas, trans antic. The distance finally broken.

That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget.

One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down.

Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?

it is not true that we have only one life to live. If we dwell in literature we can have as many lives as we want.

In the end, the only things worth doing are the things that might possibly break your heart.

There are two kinds of women in this world, my dear. Those who wave goodbye to others starting on grand adventures and those waving back from the window of a train or the deck of a ship. - Ophelia Higginbotham

The great thing about real life is that it belongs to you. You can make it up as you go along!

Gilly Gilleshpee

Just because you're grown up and then some doesn't mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.

chemistry experiments where you started pouring different things into a beaker knowing full well there would be an explosion, and ultimately a mess to clean up.

Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

Look with favour upon a bold beginning.

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.

Live, and prosper, for all your adventures are past. We are called onwards from destiny to destiny. For you, your rest is won.

Haec ubi dicta, petunt portus, et vela secundi intendunt Zephyri; fertur cita gurgite classis, et tandem laeti notae advertuntur harenae.

Sum patria ex Ithaca, comes infelicis Ulixi, nomine Achaemenides, Troiam genitore Adamasto paupere---mansissetque utinam fortuna!---profectus. Hic me, dum trepidi crudelia limina linquunt, inmemores socii vasto Cyclopis in antro deseruere.

Fortune favors those who dare.

Here is the toil of that house, and the inextricable wandering

ARMS, and the man I sing

The door opens and the tiger leaps.

I will not be famous, great. I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.