Quotes About Adventure

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase," he said as he double-locked their door, "is a tourist, not a traveler.

Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.

find Nardik, and we'll find Hu Chang." "It will be okay, Catherine," he said quietly. "I know you're

If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.

Every day should be an adventure, not a treadmill

Certainly more dangerous

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Hitch-hiking is a situational stage for karmic expression and discovery. "Getting there" is simply an excuse for the opportunity to go below our cultural facades and come face-to-face with the realities of living.

Adventure cannot be had where some degree of danger or risk is not present. Any life lived to a fully satisfying extend carries risk in its very nature.

We did not evolve by precautionary living, nor by hanging back for lack or certainty.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

By developing individual strengths, guarding against weaknesses, and appreciating the strengths of other types, life will be more amusing, more interesting, and more of a daily adventure than it could possibly be if everyone were alike.

Ein Leben voller Reisen, Abenteuer und Gefahr, Sehen und Lernen, verherrlicht durch die Liebe - das wünsche ich mir

Penelope was useful to him in this respect because she was - so she assured him - very much in the swim. Later he discovered seas more secret, cool and rarefied than those in which Penelope demonstrated her brave little breast stroke, but for the time being he submitted himself to her authority.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

People are too obsessed with seeking experience and feel that if they are not living on the razor's edge, they are not alive," Edward had once told me. "It's because they can't deal with normal life. They need to climb Mount Everest instead.

I just don't want to bother looking at recipes. To me, that's not cooking—being tied to a piece of paper." He

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.