Quotes About Adventure

Then you'll die in the midst of trying to realize your Personal Legend. That's a lot better than dying like millions of other people, who never even knew what their Personal Legends were.

The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Now all the mountains had been conquered and astronauts had walked in space. There were no more islands on earth—no matter how small—left to be discovered.

When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.

How the path was forged

La posibilidad de realizar un sueño es lo que hace que la vida sea interesante.

He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.

I'm off in search of adventure,even though i am sixty fve and fully aware of all the limitations that age can bring....

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

You know that there is a city on the far side of the ocean. But you haven't yet found the ship, nor have you loaded your bags, nor crossed the sea. Why spend time commenting on what it is like, or how one should walk through its streets?

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

Don't think about what you've left behind, the alchemist said to the boy as they began to ride across the sands of the desert. Everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always tales us somewhere.

She traveled a lot, got married a lot, divorced a lot, and always carried the scent of patchouli in the multiethnic clothing she invariably wore.

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

Perhaps, Yuan, such laws as this are only keys to unlock a door to a closed garden, and we must throw the key recklessly away and go forth into that garden boldly by imagination—or call it faith

island of Komudo

Rennie was off again to go with his friends to a motion picture.

To step off the island was to be drowned in the sea.

I need this wild life, this freedom. To be alive, to look into nature, and so into my soul.

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.

When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.