Quotes About Adventure

Dad, I would very much like to plunge off the edge of commonsense existence, at your expense, and become certifiably unemployable.

A thing can travel everywhere, just by holding still.

Where the deer bound, where the trout rise, where your horse stops to slather a drink from icy water while the sun is warm on the back of your neck, where every breath you draw is exhilaration — that is where the Aspens grow. . . .

And soon enough, she was sold on the fine art of hang gliding above the busy earth.

imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.

I was thinking it's going to be cold again tonight. We may need to zip the bags together. I'm down with that. Every star in the galaxy rolls out above them, through the blue-black needles, in a river of spilled milk. The night sky- the best drug there was, before people came together into something stronger. They zip the bags together. You know, she says, if one of us falls, the other is going with. I'll follow you anywhere.

It's a daring step, but in the world game, no daring is fatal. The only thing that will kill you is failing to leap.

La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural

palindrome: La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural.

He loved the benevolence that the stacks held out, their map of the known world. He loved the all-you-can-eat buffet of borrowing. He loved the lending histories stamped into the front of each book, the record of strangers who checked them out before him. The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.

People would rather die in invented safety than live in invigorating fear.

You can travel everywhere, just by standing still.

He stands lost in the universe's weeds, hunched a little from the stronger gravity of the world he visits.

She's always in for any game involving pointless risk and temporary oblivion.

The library was the best dungeon crawl imaginable: free loot for the finding, combined with the joy of leveling up.

Las cosas pueden viajar a cualquier sitio; para ello, no hay más que permanecer inmóvil.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

what mankind must do to save itself is to launch an enterprise aimed at leaving the earth. On this task he thought the energies of mankind could be concentrated and the need for heroism could be satisfied.

Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger.

Mountain climbing had long been a Hans Bethe hobby. He and Fermi, among others, sometimes scaled Lake Peak across the Rio Grande in the Sangre de Cristos, one of Bethe's admiring group leaders remembers, to "sit there in the sunshine" at 12,500 feet "discussing physics problems. This is how many discoveries were made.

THE MALE JOURNEY t some point in time, a man needs to embark on a risky -journey. It's a necessary adventure that takes him into uncertainty, and it almost always involves some form of difficulty or failure. On this journey the man learns to trust God more than he trusts a sense of right and wrong or his own sense of self-worth.

So get ready for a great adventure, the one you were really born for. If we never get to our little bit of heaven, our life does not make much sense, and we have created our own "hell." So get ready for some new freedom, some dangerous permission, some hope from nowhere, some unexpected happiness, some stumbling stones, some radical grace, and some new and pressing responsibility for yourself and for our suffering world.

Setting out is always a leap of faith, a risk in the deepest sense of the term, and yet an adventure too. The familiar and the habitual are so falsely reassuring, and most of us make our homes there permanently. The new is always by definition unfamiliar and untested, so God, life, destiny, suffering have to give us a push--usually a big one--or we will not go.

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.