Quotes About Adventure

Her eyes were our keys to the palace of wildness.

have an affinity for choosing the tightrope walk across the abyss and have developed a genius for the wrong turn.

Here, open wide and let it slide," he said, tilting a half-shell into Ben's mouth. The oyster hit Ben's mouth. It felt warm, salty, and had the consistency of loose phlegm. For a moment, Ben thought he was going to vomit. Somehow, he got the animal down his throat.

I'm a hero hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet. - Marshal Law

The moon grew full, then slowly pared itself down until it shriveled into a ghostly boat riding above the roiling dark. Then it fell out of the sky. They climbed into it, left land behind, and floated out to sea.

He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.

Now you must go But it's raining, Caerles said. Ferly danced to the door and opend it to the starless night.Her voice hushed. Adventures comes on a night like this, when the whole world is whispering magic. Page 76

The journey was more important than the place; most important was to return home, with crumpled maps, salt and pepper shakers shaped like clam shells, a sweatshirt with whales on it, and be able to say: I have been there, I have gone on a journey, I have come safely home.

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I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think?

Why should Dickie want to come back to subways and taxis and starched collars and a nine-to- five job? Or even a chauffeured car and vacations in Florida and Maine? It wasn't as much fun as sailing a boat in old clothes and being answerable to nobody for the way

Death was only one more adventure untried.

She wanted two weeks of working among people she didn't know, doing the kind of work a million other people did. She wanted to step into someone else's shoes. She

I am the forever-seeking.

He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

A train is a poem that will take you anywhere you want to go.

The experience of missing a loved one is a small clue that we were made for eternity. Dallas would be the first to insist that the overarching point of his life was not his presence, but rather, like the intentionality of thoughts itself, the grand and beautiful realities he was pointing to. It's all there, if we have eyes to see, ears to hear, minds to think and hearts to feel. The rest is the adventure of our lives.

Sane, reasonable, play-it-safe people are not sufficiently engaged in life to generate great stories. Instead, they sit back and wait for a leader-storyteller to come along and get them caught up in a life worth living.

You're the hero of your own story.

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit