Quotes About Adventure

People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.

The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported life which is nuclear society itself.

Here, in Egypt, the morning of Alexander's adventure ends. Henceforth he is divided; Alexandria is his first possession and he is no longer free.

Restated constructively, the end of the adventure already drags the course of the man; he (Cagliostro) is in love with satiety. But she (Seraphina) is in love with adventure. Her pitch is higher.

Encourage learning in the areas of discovery and innovation. This is the time for even more creative thinking and greater focus on innovation.

Encourage experimentation. People always have ideas that they have been wishing they had the chance to try, and they naturally generate solutions to problems they've been living with. What they seldom do, without encouragement and support, is try their ideas. Too often experimentation seems to people a risky undertaking that requires someone else's blessing. Give it yours.

Every day the sun will rise and you never know what the tide will bring in. -Tom Hanks, in the movie 'Castaway'.

many of the great spiritual explorers were often viewed as rebels in their time. They did not blindly follow the prevailing religious beliefs and traditions of their day. Instead, they pursued personal spiritual experience.

Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old.

I had wild Jack for a lover.

He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet.

Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation.

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them.

but for the Girl Writing A Letter these things don't matter, she's got a beer in her free hand, she's on the road, she's real and she's in love.

Everything I've never done, I want to do with you.

Grab your coat, leave a note, and run away with me.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roamExcels a dunce that has been kept at home!

Variety's the very spice of life.

Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all it's flavour.

A friend Alan and I ended up in an Outback pub in a place called Daly Waters and apparently, he says, in the course of this very lively evening we spent there I offered to do a house swap with a family from Korea. We weren't sure whether they were from North Korea or South Korea.

Three things alone are certain when you venture into a loft: that you will crack your head on a beam at least twice, that you will get cobwebs draped over your face, and that you will not find what you went looking for.