Quotes About Adventure

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

You will know your path by the fun of it.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

Life begins where fear ends.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

Living on purpose is a lifestyle, a way of being and a lifelong spiritual practice that will refine your Soul. This isn't a 10-day or 30-day plan. This is a lifelong adventure!

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.

Don't wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.