Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place. — Louis L'Amour
Adventure must start with running away from home. — William Bolitho
Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair. — Wally Byam
Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon. — Warren Miller
Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners. — Roy Chapman Andrews
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. — David Grayson
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. — John Hope Franklin
I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. — Jacqueline Cochran
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. — Bertrand Russell
Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find. — William Least Heat-Moon
When a great adventure is offered, you don't refuse it. — Amelia Earhart
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are! — Lewis Carroll
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. — Lewis Carroll
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Adventure With You Quotes
If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a craftsman. If you begin with a question and use it to guide an adventure of discovery, that’s the work of the artist. — Rick Rubin
You’re so brave that you’ll jump into the water with your clothes on. — Romanian Proverbs
Space can be fun, depending on who you are with. — Sergei Krikalev
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. — Ella Maillart
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
You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures through the galaxy with people you know better than you know your own family. To live and die with them. These are my friends, my best friends in the world. — Atticus Shaffer
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing. — Yvon Chouinard
This is the only chance you will ever have on earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible? — Dale Carnegie
There is nothing more wonderful in life than seeing life as an adventure. We should all try things that we're afraid of. We should all look very clearly into the unknown and enjoy it. Because when you come in contact with things that you really don't know, that's when you're truly living. — Brian Molko
For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it. — Lee Kuan Yew
Need Adventure Quotes
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. — Alan Hirsch
As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure. — Hans Zimmer
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye
Maybe it won't work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.
Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had. — Garrison Keillor
The next big thing is always around the corner. You just need to find it before it finds you. — Raoul Pal
Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important. — Nev Schulman
I'd rather have a life of "oh wells" than a life of "what ifs".
At the start of an endeavor, we need encouragement and freedom to figure out what we enjoy. — Angela Duckworth
You need to maintain your level of mystery, not just in the beginning, but throughout the relationship. — Corey Wayne
I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." — Joan Miro
Adventure Day Quotes
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
I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. — John Muir
I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news — John Muir
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
Rule No. 1 is you can't be fake. If you're fake, you become a gimmick and you're selling a gimmick; a little gimmick is cool, this is entertainment. But when you base your stuff on mostly real stuff, you never run out of it because every day is a different adventure. — Nas
On the eve of this great adventure I send my best wishes to every soldier in the Allied team.
To us is given the honour of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history; and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings. — Bernard Law Montgomery
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark. — John Muir
Life is a book, and every day that we live is a new page, so paint every page of your life with amazing colors of good deeds and amazing adventures. — Prince Ali Salman Aga Khan Aly Khan
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. — Paul D. Boyer
One day I wake up in the desert and we spend 24 hours in the desert. — MrBeast
Adventure Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees. — Emiliano Zapata
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure. — Beatrix Potter
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement. — Saint Augustine
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. — Jawaharlal Nehru
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. — Oliver Sacks
If you are of sound mind and body, many exciting and challenging adventures are within your reach irrespective of your age. — Gad Saad
Go on a few wild and crazy adventures that you'll be excited to tell your kids about someday. — Sahil Bloom
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. — Norman Rockwell
Being a working mom and traveling as well with a baby, my goodness it’s a lot, but it’s all so exciting. — Meghan Markle
We are absolutely ready to go to Mars. It’s going to be a fantastic journey getting there and very exciting times. — Peggy Whitson
Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.
People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. — James Framo
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting. — Harry Callahan
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. — Joseph Campbell
Great Adventure Quotes
It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it — Mother Teresa
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility. — Gary Snyder
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. — Mircea Eliade
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry. — Jack Kerouac
The explorers of the past were great men and we should honour them. But let us not forget that their spirit lives on. It is still not hard to find a man who will adventure for the sake of a dream or one who will search, for the pleasure of searching, not for what he may find. — Edmund Hillary
Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul.
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. — Virginia Woolf
Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine. — James J. Hill
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure. — Alexis Carrel
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Adventure And Travel Quotes
Traveling - it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battuta
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started. — T. S. Eliot
Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Chief Seattle
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list. — Susan Sontag
The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. — Randy Komisar
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body. — Hunter S. Thompson
Travel Books Quotes
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. — Fernando Pessoa
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch. — Jhumpa Lahiri
You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know. — Mary Wells Lawrence
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone. — Donna Tartt
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things. — Jonathan Raban
Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way - through the power of words - to change the world. — Sonia Sotomayor
A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair. — Katrina Mayer
Exploration And Adventure Quotes
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano
Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. — Isabelle Eberhardt
Equipped with our five senses - along with telescopes and microscopes and mass spectrometers and seismographs and magnetometers and particle accelerators and detectors sensitive to the entire electromagnetic spectrum - we explore the universe around us and call the adventure science. — Edwin Powell Hubble
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. — Emilio Estevez
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim. — Robert Fulghum
We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us. — Guy Laliberte
Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit. — Michael Steger
My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood. — Bertrand Piccard
Family Adventure Quotes
Government schooling is the most radical adventure in history. It kills the family by monopolizing the best times of childhood and by teaching disrespect for home and parents. — John Taylor Gatto
We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels. — Mark Consuelos
Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. — Pam Brown
Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends. — Walt Disney
I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue. — Patrick Duffy
When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure. — E. B. White
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family. — Mink Stole
The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life. — Thomas Keating
When I fly to Chile to surf or go snowboarding in Russia or some other adventure, I try to include the family when I can and go see friends along the way. — Laird Hamilton
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. — Erich Maria Remarque
Yes, that's it! Said the Hatter with a sigh, it's always tea time. — Lewis Carroll
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. — Jon Scieszka
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then — Lewis Carroll
Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on. "I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know." "Not the same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"! — Lewis Carroll
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public. — Winston Churchill
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds. — Edmund Hillary
If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see? — Lewis Carroll
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more." — Lewis Carroll
Why is a raven like a writing desk? — Lewis Carroll
Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. — Fritz Zwicky
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. — Isabel Allende
People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. — Nicholas Sparks
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can. — Anthony Doerr
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does. — Lewis Carroll
The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth — Ranulph Fiennes
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books. — Kurt Vonnegut
I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir,' said Alice, 'Because I'm not myself you see. — Lewis Carroll
to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter. — Lewis Carroll
My goal with The Adventures of Captain Underpants was to invent a style which was almost identical to that of a picture book - in a novel format. So I wrote incredibly short chapters and tried to fill each page with more pictures than words. I wanted to create a book that kids who don't like to read would want to read. — Dav Pilkey
I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I am. I love the feeling of holding a finished book in my hands, and then I can't wait to start the great adventure of writing the next one. — Barbara Taylor Bradford
Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999) — Max Allan Collins
I love being a part of storytelling, so whether I'm getting to do that on Survivor, or do it through kids' adventure books, or directing a movie, it's all sort of the same: Once Upon a Time... — Jeff Probst
William Waltz will take me through 'the buzz and clamor in a forest of hearts.' Adventures in the Lost Interiors of America is an adventure, I will go on this adventure with Waltz as a skillful, faithful, compass-true guide. I love this book. — James Tate
Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North. — James Oliver Curwood
I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books. — Alberto Manguel
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth. — Peter Straub
Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something. — Tom Robbins
You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. — Mark Twain
When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage. — Candice Millard
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. — Dean Karnazes
Writing a book is an adventure. — Winston Churchill
There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought! — Lewis Carroll
In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by — Lewis Carroll
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure. — Anne Carson
But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main character. At least, that's the way I do it. It's actually not that bad. Even if it is mad nerdy. — Matt de la Pena
One day's exposure to mountains is better than a cartload of books. — John Muir
I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am. — Wilbur Smith
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere. — David Sedaris
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