Adventure Quotes

"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

J.M. Barrie

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

Terry Pratchett

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

Hunter S. Thompson

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing."

Herman Melville

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

Oprah Winfrey

"If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul."

Drew Barrymore

"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."

Augustine of Hippo

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can."

Danny Kaye

"Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start."

Jason Mraz

"In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything."

Veronica Rossi

"Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it."

E.A. Bucchianeri

"What is real and what is not is for your heart to decide and for your heart to know."

Colleen Houck

"You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions."

Karen Blixen

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

George Eliot

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

Christopher McCandless

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."

Ansel Adams

"Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion."

Robert Macfarlane

"Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend."

Priya Ardis

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing."

Barry Finlay

"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.”Chat. British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you."

Priya Ardis

"I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen."

CrimethInc.

"His hand snapped shut over the device and then he crossed his arms. Aria stared in horror. Her Smarteye was buried in a Neanderthal’s armpit."

Veronica Rossi

"Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

Robert Louis Stevenson

"One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it."

Jimmy Buffett

"Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?”“You whacked me on the head with a ball!”“You deserved it."

Priya Ardis

"I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure"

Paulo Coelho

"God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside."

Paulo Coelho

"I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?”Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die."

Priya Ardis

"Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together."

Bob Goff

"He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face."

Priya Ardis

"Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn't always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here's the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful and immensely satisfying."

Steve Goodier

"By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions."

D.K. LeVick

"i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth"

Ernest Shackleton

"One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. ‘What’s the point?’ he said. ‘Kids aren’t getting jobs.’ You never hear faculty talk that way. He did."

Daniel Amory

"The quest for a lost city erodes your body, damaging you beyond all reason. But it is your mind that bears the heaviest toll. Listen to the doubters, the worriers and the weak, and the vaguest hope of success evaporates."

Tahir Shah

"Every day is not a day to master but an adventure to experience."

A.D. Posey

"The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar"

Viola Shipman

"You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty."

Debasish Mridha

"Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you."

Priya Ardis, My Merlin Awakening

"Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of."

Roy T. Bennett

"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"

Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

"Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery."

David Almond

"Look, girls know when they’re cute,” he said. “You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to take the bar. She doesn’t have a job. I was like, ‘How are you going to get a job there in this market?’ And she’s like, ‘I’ll wink and I’ll smile.’ She’s a pretty girl. Whether that works despite her poor grades is yet to be seen."

Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs

"Most people live their lives laying prostrate before a false god, waiting for a cue to rise. There are no cues, only decisions. Shall I have dessert? Shall I have the best of the wine? Shall I love the person next to me? They can all be brought to your table. Rise, I say, rise and look within to the truth, to the light, and tell it your decision."

Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

"There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.I wonder how God deals with the situation, considering the boredom."

Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

"SEEK THE ADVENTURES OF THE HEART. THEY LEAD YOU TO ETERNAL BLISS!"

Helen Heinmiller, The Rustling of Angels: Discovering the Power of Unconditional Love

"Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside."

Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.

"Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the only permission you need for that is your own."

Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.

"I am a Freedom Seeker and I choose to feel free."

Beth Kempton, Freedom Seeker: Live More. Worry Less. Do What You Love.

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