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Quotes About Exploration

She imagined herself both queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination she was making love with men of all skin colors--white, black, yellow--with homosexuals and beggars. She was anyone's, and anyone could do anything to her. She had one, two, three orgasms, one after another. She imagined everything she had never imagined before, and she gave herself to all that was most base and most pure.
~ Paulo Coelho
The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that's not the aim of boats.
~ Paulo Coelho
Fortunate are those who take the first steps.
~ Paulo Coelho
you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits
~ Paulo Coelho
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
~ Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?
~ Paulo Coelho
Give yourself freedom to try out new things Don't be so set in your ways that you can't grow.
~ Paulo Coelho
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
~ Paulo Coelho
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams.
~ Paulo Coelho
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
~ Paulo Coelho
Even If you're doing the same thing over & over, U need to discover something new, fantastic & unbelievable that went unnoticed the time before.
~ Paulo Coelho
Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.
~ Paulo Coelho
Follow your dreams and take your risks.
~ Paulo Coelho
When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
~ Paulo Coelho
By taking risks. By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for Love, as long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.
~ Paulo Coelho
You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.
~ Paulo Coelho
How's the water? asked her father. It's lovely, she replided. Right, from now on, whenever you want to find out about something, plunge straight in.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every moment of searching is a moment of encounter.
~ Paulo Coelho
The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.
~ Paulo Coelho
One day, I am going to write a travel guide containing only maps and addresses of hotels, and with the rest of the pages blank. That way, people will have to make their own initery, to discover themselves restaurants, monuments and all the magnificent things that every city has, but which are never mentioned because ' the history we have been taught' does not include them in the list of things you must see.
~ Paulo Coelho
ALWAYS chose the road less taken.
~ Paulo Coelho
A journey is an adventure. Henry Miller said that it is far more important to discover a church no one has heard of, than go to Rome and feel obliged to visit the Sistine Chapel, with two hundred thousand tourists shouting all around you. Go to the Sistine Chapel, but also get lost in the streets, wander down alleyways, feel free to look for something, without knowing what it is. I swear you will find it and that it will change your life.
~ Paulo Coelho
one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.
~ Paulo Coelho