Quotes About Adventure

Experimentei algo que depois, ao longo de minha vida, se repetiu frequentemente: a alegria do novo

Yo me siento como el caballero de una novela antigua que, encerrado en su armadura resplandeciente, tras acometer mil empresas prodigiosas por el mundo, se topa con un pastor harapiento, desnutrido, que sin apartarse nunca del pastizal, con portentoso coraje doblega y domina a horribles bestias con sus propias manos.

dass es auf der Welt überhaupt nichts zu gewinnen gab, dass ihr Leben genauso wie meines voller außergewöhnlicher und unsinniger Abenteuer war und dass die Zeit ganz einfach ohne jeden Sinn verrann und es nur schön war, sich hin und wieder zu sehen, um den verrückten Klang des Gehirns der einen als Echo im verrückten Klang des Gehirns der anderen zu hören.

Il giorno seguente partii per Venezia insieme a Ida. In treno ci ripromettemmo di diventare adulte come a nessuna era mai successo.

she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

La finalidad de la vida no es prosperar sino transformarse. Cuando uno se lanza a lo desconocido se salva.

how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my eyes shut and opening them only when I am with you?

How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other's rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.

Why do you look like that? You should be happy. A lot of things can happen in an airplane, at night, thirty thousand feet above the ocean.

But I was in Russia because I had looked at the literatures of the world and made a choice.

This Life is More than Just a read through.

There's no two ways about it, Tolkien fans are a funny bunch. I should know, for I was one of them. Been there, done that, read the book, gone mad. I first took on The Lord of the Rings at the age of eleven or twelve; to be precise, I began it at the age of eleven and finished at the age of twelve. It was, and remains, not a book that you happen to read, like any other, but a book that happens to you: a chunk bitten out of your life.

Men and women who venture to someone else's war through choice do so in a variety of guises. UN general, BBC correspondent, aid worker, mercenary: in the final analysis they all want the same thing, a hit off the action, a walk on the dark side. It's just a question of how slick a cover you give yourself, and how far you want to go. If you find a cause later then hold on to it, but never blind yourself with your own disguise. I

If you knew there was a beach where you could pick up gold nuggets like pebble stones, would you not go there? Go there.

Those who jump out of airplanes do not love life—they deny it, which, of course, is not done without a certain naughty exhilaration. Like children they relish tugging on the apron of Mother Nature, as long as she doesn't turn and slap them.

Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way.

Parfois monter un escalier est la seule façon de savoir où il mène.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.