Quotes About Adventure

Good luck. Be safe. And if you can't be safe... be yourself.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.

Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone? In the open sea, he said. Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

I told you, everyone understands a quest.

nothing is guaranteed.... So don't be afraid. Be alive.

Let's just start and see what happens.

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out. So what happened? I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all

You don't want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

That was just it. You never knew what lay ahead; the future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything. One minute you're walking through a dark woods, alone, and then the landscape shifts, and you see it. Something wondrous and unexpected, almost magical, that you never would have found had you not kept going. Like a new friend who feels like an old one, or a memory you'll never forget. Maybe even a carousel.

D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Austin... and you. I'll be there soon.

But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So... ... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool, I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means? The apocalypse?

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

Life is big and huge and scary. But you have to go and take your part of it. There's a reason the saying is 'Seize the day,' not 'Wait for it to come along at some point.

I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.

It's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

A life isn't just the pages you know, it's everything.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

Meanwhile, Morris settled into his seat with his signature slouch, neither knowing nor caring where I was taking him. Like destinations, in general, were vastly overrated. And maybe they were. As long as you were moving, you were always going somewhere.

Don't be afraid, be alive.

In midair, dangling lost above the world.