Quotes About Adventure

And it was then that Nora noticed the gun, a large rifle with a hefty brown handle, leaning against the wall at the far end of the room, under the coat hooks. The sight made her feel happy, somehow. Made her feel like her eleven-year-old self would have been proud. She was, it seemed, having an adventure.

It was a quote from Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference . . .' 'What if there are more than two roads diverging in the wood? What if there are more roads than trees? What if there is no end to the choices you could make? What would Robert Frost do then?

If we keep going in a straight line we'll get out of here.

And then there were fish. And some of the fish thought long and hard and decided the sea was a bit limiting. It was okay, but there weren't any bananas in the sea, and they were beginning to fancy a banana.

So, tou see? 'Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live'.

Think of all that possibility. It's exciting.' 'Yes. I suppose it is.' 'A whole life in front of you.' 'A whole life.' 'You could do anything, live anywhere. Somewhere a bit less cold and wet.

I've ridden a bike now for a hundred years and I think they are one of the truly great human inventions.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big and expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes

quote from Henry David Thoreau. All good things are wild and free.

To the winter forest And nowhere to go This girl runs From all she knows

She remembered being enthralled by an article about Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. She'd never seen a place that looked so far away. She'd read about scientists doing research among glaciers and frozen fjords and puffins. Then, prompted by Mrs Elm, she'd decided she wanted to be a glaciologist.

Swimmer. Musician. Philosopher. Spouse. Traveller. Glaciologist. Happy. Loved. Nothing.

Er wordt wel gezegd dat je of leest om aan de wereld te ontsnappen of om jezelf te vinden. Ik zie het verschil niet echt.We vinden onszelf door te ontsnappen. Het gaat er niet om waar je bent, maar waar je heen wilt, en zo.

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.

Wild, she thought to herself. Free.

Robert Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – / I took the one less travelled by, / And that has made all the difference . . .

But where there were books, there was always the temptation to open them. And she realised it was the same with lives.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes.

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, Tom. 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.

Find a passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sylvia Plath

There was absolutely nothing wrong with this life, but she felt inside her a craving for other things, other lives, other possibilities. She felt like she was still in the air, not ready to land.

In a familiar place, your mind focuses solely on itself. There is nothing new it needs to notice about your bedroom. No potential external threats, just internal ones. By forcing yourself into a new physical space, preferably in a different country, you end up inevitably focusing a bit more on the world outside your head