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Quotes About Adventure

I told you you might have a very different life from mine, and from the life you've had with me, and that would be a wonderful thing, there are many ways to live a good life.
~ Marilynne Robinson
To me, going to the unknown is absolutely rule number one.
~ Marina Abramovi?
Kelion?se išlieki jaunas, nes neturi kada senti.
~ Marina Abramovi?
The forest is where you are when your surroundings are not mastered.
~ Marina Warner
con su amante, hacia lejanas comarcas llenas de color, donde a espléndidas ciudades de catedrales de mármol blanco y aguzados campanarios suceden bosques de limoneros, deliciosas aldeas de pescadores y una cabaña tropical rodeada de palmeras: el paisaje y el clima son allí tan torrenciales como la pasión.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
his eyes, he thought that in a few hours he, Lucrecia, and Fonchito would be crossing the skies, leaving behind the thick clouds
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Ik herinnerde me haar woorden: 'Door dit te doen leef ik intenser.' Goed, wie met vuur speelt, zal zich vroeg of laat branden.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Desde que el barco empezó a surcar las aguas azul plata del mar Caribe, Roger sintió en la sangre que su sexo, dormido en estos últimos meses de enfermedades, preocupaciones y gran trabajo físico y mental, volvía a despertar y a llenarle la cabeza de fantasías y deseos. En su diario resumió su estado de ánimo con tres palabras: "ardo de nuevo
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Nuestro hermoso deber es imaginar que hay un laberinto y un hilo.»
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Y partió al alba, solo, como parten los héroes».
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Mi salvación fue leer, leer los buenos libros, refugiarme en esos mundos donde vivir era intenso, una aventura tras otra, donde podía sentirme libre y volvía a ser feliz.
~ Mario Vargas-Llosa
Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. - Hannah Schneider
~ Marisha Pessl
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.
~ Marisha Pessl
We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.
~ Marisha Pessl
They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang.
~ Marisha Pessl
We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all around you.
~ Marisha Pessl
As I scaled some rocks, I didn't move out of the way in time as a wave crashed to shore and I got soaked up to my shins in icy water. I could forget about a Russian vor; I was going to look like Tom Hanks in goddamn Cast Away by the time I arrived.
~ Marisha Pessl
People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.
~ Marisha Pessl
There were no street signs along Benton Hollow Road, no house numbers, no streetlights, not even any lines—just my car's faded headlights, which didn't so much push back the advancing dark as nervously rummage through it.
~ Marisha Pessl
An interesting journey never follows a straight path
~ Marjan van den Belt
Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous. Faithfulness is not holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell. The will of God is not an insurance plan. It's a daring plan. The complete surrender of your life to the cause of Christ isn't radical. It's normal. It's time to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. It's time to go all in and all out for the All in All. Pack your coffin!
~ Mark Batterson
Just take your flak jackets and some gear because we'll be back for dinner.
~ Mark Bowden
Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
~ Mark Buchanan
Any time, any place, any where. He's not called Doctor Martini, is he?
~ Mark Gatiss