Quotes About Adventure

The problem was, it was as easy to be killed on a foolish quest in the company of fools as on an adventure of merit beside men one respected and trusted.

I travel all the time.

Originally the dream was about traveling and developing a job that would permit me to travel. And I decided to go into street performing because it was a traveling job it would let me go around the world.

He lived for the sea and his one wish was that he would not die on dry land.

That was something else I'd learned from Homer—sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.

The beauty of having nothing to lose is that you have everything to gain

To fall in love in New York is to walk,

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.

I love the old, but I'm intrigued by the new. And sometimes excited by it, too.

That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now

Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you are, whom you will be, leave yourself, shrug off the old lies, dare what you don't dare, it is there that you will take pleasure . . . and rejoice, in the terror, follow it where you're afraid to go, go ahead, take the plunge, you're on the right trail.

If the truth about loving or hateful choices were revealed it would break open the earth's crust. Which is why we live in legalized and general delusion. Fiction takes the place of reality. This is why simply naming one of these turns of the unconscious that are part of our strange human adventure engenders such upsets (which are at once intimate, individual, and political); why consciously or unconsciously we constantly try to save ourselves from this naming.

When I was five years old I fell head downward into an empty cistern and was not found until six hours later, at which time I was quietly eating dirt. The year after that I fell out of a neighbor's barn loft. These experiences constitute an adequate preparation for a career in journalism — the equivalent of four years in college

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.

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Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

I've learned to keep looking ahead. There are still so many good books to read, sunsets to see, friends to visit, and old dogs to take walks with.

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 869

Become a tourist for a day in your own hometown. Take a tour. See the sights.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon