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Quotes About Exploration

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
~ Marilyn French
imagine that it were given back to me to be the child who knew departure would be sweet, the boy who drew square-rigged ships, the girl who knew truck routes from ottawa to mexico, the me who found a door in latin verse and made a map out of hexameters.
~ Marilyn Hacker
Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.
~ Marilyn Johnson
Someday, I will stop being surprised at all the things librarians read; they'll read anything.)
~ Marilyn Johnson
The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.
~ Blake Crouch, Dark Matter
To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we've hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
To live a creative life we must first lose the fear of being wrong.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.
~ Martha Wells, The Gate of Gods
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
The nicest thing about being lost is that you get rid of the fear of losing your path!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The things that scare you also always provoke you to challenge your fears!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.
~ Unknown
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
~ George A. Sheehan
You don't know all that you can be unless you've tried all there is to try. None of us get to do that in this life, so hence the saying, there's always room for improvement.
~ Toni Sorenson
Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.
~ Andrew Zimmern
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
~ Jonathan Swift
I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.
~ Molly Sims
After I was diagnosed with celiac disease, I said yes to food, with great enthusiasm. . . . I vowed to taste everything I could eat, rather than focusing on what I could not.
~ Unknown
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
~ Margaret Mead
This is my invariable advice to people: Learn how to cook- try new recipes, learn from your mistakes, be fearless, and above all have fun!
~ Julia Child
Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!
~ David Beckham
To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.
~ Horace Kephart