Quotes About Adventure

He] said he didn't think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it's that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die.

I thought about how there are so many lies in fear. So much deception. What else keeps us from living a better story than fear?

When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out.

the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear.

Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out.

Meaning is not an idea to be agreed with. It is a feeling you get when you live as a hero on a mission. And it cannot be experienced without taking action and living into a story.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.

I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story. You'll get a taste for one story and then want another, and then another, and the stories will build until you're living a kind of epic of risk and reward, and the whole thing will be molding you into the actual character whose roles you've been playing.

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fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. — Donald Miller, A Million Miles In a Thousand Years (? Thomas Nelson Inc; 33265th edition, January 1, 2009)

writer and story scholar James Scott Bell calls "doorways of no return."1

I longed for glory. I remember nothing of my childhood more than my fervor for tales of glory and my plans to travel the world in quest of fame.

You can't go on without a story any longer than you can read a book about nothing.

You become like the people you interact with. And if your friends are living boring stories, you probably will too.

The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good. Such is life.

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate 'Captain' Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead."—Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice.

A story doesn't really pick up until the hero needs to disarm a bomb, win someone's heart, defeat a villain, or fight for their emotional or physical survival.

The only two motivations a hero has in a story are to escape something bad or experience something good.

fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

Darius Goes West.