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Quotes About Adventure

Those girls are on the road to trouble," I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk—and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn't understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted. Oh, our youthful needs! Oh, the deliciously blinding yearnings of the young—which inevitably take us right to the edges of cliffs, or trap us in cul-de-sacs of our design.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Not making a living,' he wrote, on his first trip to Alaska, 'just living.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump. I say: 'Attraversiamo.' Let's cross over.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We had more fun waiting in line together at the Department of Motor Vehicles than most couples have on their honeymoons. We gave each other same nickname, so there would be no separation between us. We made goals, vows, promises and dinner together. He read books to me...
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
A creative life is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. a
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The world was his divan. There was such a freedom in it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an urban Thoreau) set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in America without slogging through what Kerouac called the endless system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Sinh lá»±c du-l?ch-??n-má»™t-nÆ¡i và sinh lá»±c s?ng-?-má»™t-nÆ¡i là hai sinh lá»±c khác nhau cÆ¡ b?n
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Creative living is a path for the brave. a
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It's all just a game.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
El gran amor de mi vida es viajar
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't know exactly what I am, but I am curious enough to go find out!
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Because either way, it's all kind of amazing—what we get to do, what we get to attempt, what we sometimes get to commune with.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Without bravery, their lives would remain small - far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels—that's creative living. The courage to go on that hunt in the first place—that's what separates a mundane existence from a more enchanted one.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I arrived in New York City safely— a girl so freshly hatched that there was practically yolk in my hair.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Traveling is the great true love of my life...I have always felt that to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. I am loyal and constant in my love of travel.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Most of all, though, he asked his students to be brave. Without bravery, he instructed, they would never be able to realize the vaulting scope of their own capacities. Without bravery, they would never know the world as richly as it longs to be known. Without bravery, their lives would remain small—far smaller than they probably wanted their lives to be.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Until I can feel as ecstatic about having a baby as I felt about going to New Zealand to search for a giant squid, I cannot have a baby.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert