Quotes About Adventure

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea

an anchor fixes you in one place. And I am still not fixed. Could I just keep sailing through life for ever feeling like this? A boat has to stop eventually. It has to reach a port, a harbour, a destination, known or unknown. It has to get somewhere, and stop there, or what is the point of the boat?

But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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.

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 'Between life and death there is a library,' she said.

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

You are the library card.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it.

Read anything you want. Just read. Books are possibilities. They are escape routes. They give you options when you have none. Each one can be a home for an uprooted mind.

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 longitude and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.

We weren't there to take over, we were there, in our own minds, to discover . And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

But it is sometimes more fun to explore than to know. And you might find that you love the voyage in all its stumbling uncertainty.

But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

Remove this quote from your collection "But you can be anything you want to be, Nora. Think of all that possibility. It's exiting" "Yes I suppose it is" "A whole life in front of you" "A whole life" "You could do anything, live anywhere

But you could be anything you want to be, Nora. 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.

These books are portals to all the lives you could be living.

There is this idea that you either read to escape or you read to find yourself. I don't really see the difference. We find ourselves through the process of escaping. It is not where we are, but where we want to go, and all that.

Entering the Hedge is dangerous for anyone, but especially for changelings, who risk enslavement once again whenever they brave the Thorns.

If you land on the moon, you still have to get home.

Jason could tell a yarn. He could hardly talk without telling a yarn; according to his zealous world view, every day was an adventure. He would relate his experiences like a combination of a bard, radio talk-show host, and bawdy

For those wishing to vacation abroad, the agency could recommend destinations that were relatively free of local race prejudice and, just as important, not overrun by white American tourists—for nothing was more frustrating than traveling thousands of miles only to encounter the same bigots you dealt with every day at home.

Many tales are told of what he witnessed on his journey, of the Desert of Dried-Up Tears, of the Vale of the Lost Shape, and other places besides.

Come, dear children, let us away;Down and away below!Now my brothers call from the bay,Now the great winds shoreward blow,Now the salt tides seaward flow;Now the wild white horses play,Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.