Quotes About Adventure

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself.

The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.

You don't have to be an academic. You don't have to be anything. Don't force it. Feel your way, and don't stop feeling your way until something fits. Maybe nothing will. Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.

Start fires. But only metaphorically. Unless you are cold and it's a safe setting. In which case: start fires.

I've never had a coconut chilli Martini before,' I tell him. 'That's the thing with getting older. You run out of new things to try.' 'Oh, I don't know,' he says, still the optimist. 'I have lived beside one ocean or another most of my life and I have yet to see the same wave twice. It's the mana, you see. It's everywhere. It's never still. It keeps the world new. The whole planet is a coconut chilli Martini.

When you stay too long in one place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

No tienes que entender la vida. Tienes que vivirla. Nada más.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I'm never going to live in fear.

On Earth you have to spend a lot of time traveling in between places, be it on roads or on rail tracks or in careers or relationships.

It is so nice to be somewhere I don't know. To be somewhere new, when the world has felt so stale and familiar.

As Nora escaped the shop, she wished there were nothing but doors ahead of her, which she could walk through one by one, leaving everything behind.

You will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life.

The fun is in the jumping, mon amie.' 'But what if it's in the landing?

Each of us has the power to enter a new world. All we have to do is change our mind.

When I first traveled around the globe, it took over a year, on a boat full of men, who were lucky if they made it. Now, the world is just there. All of it. In an hour I will be on a flight to Sydney, and by lunchtime I will have arrived. It makes me feel claustrophobic, as if the world is literally shrinking, like a balloon losing air.

You didn't have to enjoy every aspect of each life to keep having the option of experiencing them. You just had to never give up on the idea that there would be a life somewhere that could be enjoyed.

People didn't feel the enormity of the world or their own smallness within it. When I first travelled around the globe, it took over a year, on a boat full of men, who were lucky if they made it. Now, the world is just there. All of it. In an hour I will be on a flight to Sydney, and by lunchtime I will have arrived. It makes me feel claustrophobic, as if the world is literally shrinking, like a balloon losing air.

Existe la idea de que uno lee para escapar o para encontrarse a sí mismo. En realidad, yo no veo la diferencia. Nos encontramos a nosotros mismos a través del proceso de escapar. No se trata de dónde estamos, sino de adónde queremos ir.

in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

Maybe you are a road, not a destination. That is fine. Be a road. But make sure it's one with something to look at out of the window.

A lot of depressed people turn to travel as an antidote to their symptoms.

She was 'well travelled', the most ridiculous expression if you belonged to a species that had only left its own planet to visit its moon.

So long as there are still books on the shelves, you are never trapped. Every book is a potential escape.' 'I just don't understand life,' sulked Nora. 'You don't have to understand life. You just have to live it.