Quotes About Adventure

their owners were Mycenaeans heading for home when their ship foundered off the headland in southern Turkey known as Uluburun

you could beach your ship wherever you could find a sandy shore, put up your tent

the Greeks mounted a mighty expedition to bring her back.

they hardly ever ventured very far from the sea.

Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.

Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often.

LIBRARY, where they keep the truth serum, and the magic carpets" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165

READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167

do with aviation again

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

risks must be taken . . . the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing . . . he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. . . . / only a person who risks is free." Taking

He was the most widely travelled poet of the Renaissance; a man who lost an eye in Morocco, who was exiled to the East for a sword fight, who was destitute in Goa and shipwrecked in the Mekong Delta – he swam ashore clutching his manuscript above his head while his Chinese lover drowned.

Here are two good-humored men, always ready to take coffee and opium, about to take a pleasure trip around the islands together.

This fun visualisation can be used to help clients discover internal resources they already have to head for adventure, face fears and overcome obstacles. It is important to prepare clients for the tough world they face outside the therapy room. Life is unfair, and it is important that clients learn to see difficulties as opportunities to conquer and learn from.

In this visualisation the client experiences a motorbike journey. Is this true adventure or a scary nightmare? Each client will have his or her own interpretation of the story. During the visualisation clients are making decisions and owning their feelings.

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

The world of the bored and especially the world of the frightened—the world of decadence—needs an ersatz type of spiritual adventure for the titillation of its inner life; and even more than that, it needs 'spiritual revolutions' in order to avoid real ones and to sidetrack demands for social change.

When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.

That's why people require travel books on the 1960s, I thought. They want to go there. They want to feel that sun on their backs.

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.

It seems that now is the time to take risks and strike.

La route est plus large que longue.

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

This is Simba," Nicole said, pointing to the lion. "Is he dangerous?" Asked Chase. "Not really. He mauled a trainer, but nothing much.