ADVENTURE QUOTES II
quotations about adventure
Take advantage of the treasures that lie in your own backyard. An adventure is an adventure, and you don't always need to take an airplane to get there.
HANNAH MAE
"Explore The World: 10 Realistic Ways To Add More Travel To Your Life", Elite Daily, September 30, 2015
Adventure is becoming a lost art in that you can now comfort your way out of it. Don't just travel, have an adventure!... it can reset all your clocks. Through the challenge, the discomfort, the euphoria, the glory and the sense of accomplishment, there is a new sense of self that is refreshing and ready to take on the world in a whole new way.
CHAUNCEY LOCKLEAR
"Live your life with adventure", Port Townsend Leader, August 31, 2016
A new, big project can seem insurmountable. You don't know where to start, and you don't know if you'll be able to see it through. To make things a little easier, think of a big project the same way you might think of an adventure.... It might seem like trying to force something to be fun, but we know that gamifying things can make them easier to swallow.
KRISTIN WONG
"Approach a Big Project Like You Would an Adventure", lifehacker, March 10, 2015
An adventure needs to have moments of difficulty and uncertainty. Strangely, a dollop of misery, worry and wishing I was back home usually goes a long way to cementing the good memories in my mind, long after the bad ones have faded.
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS
"How to have a holiday adventure in the UK", The Guardian, January 14, 2016
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
E. M. FORSTER
A Passage to India
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
"Social Cohesion and Human Nature", Authority and the Individual
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
J.M. BARRIE
Peter Pan
Railway termini ... are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. FORSTER
Howard's End
Very simply, we are most alive, and at our best, when we push the boundaries of what is possible in the pursuit of something we love. This is the power of adventure.
FRANK NILES
"The Secret to a Joyful Life", Huffington Post, June 22, 2015
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.
DAVID GRAYSON
Adventures in Solitude
Outdoor adventure is a state of mind. No matter your age, you can get outside.
HANNAH ROTHLIN
"Hannah Rothlin on August is American Adventures Month", The Spectrum, August 29, 2016
Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.
HOLLY LISLE
The Silver Door
Thanks to Instagram and Tumblr, it's clear that the true meaning of adventure is to lay in a cold tent at the top of a sacred mountain, sip single origin coffee from your vintage-replica camping cup and take 35mm photos of your every move.
RIP CURL
"New Zealand: Everybody Knows this is Nowhere", Surfline, September 1, 2016
One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
JIMMY BUFFETT
A Pirate Looks at Fifty
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.
BARRY B. LONGYEAR
"Enemy Mine"
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
A Princess of Mars
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
HELEN KELLER
Let Us Have Faith
I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
ANAÏS NIN
Fire: From "A Journal of Love" The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1934-1938
Immediately after an adventure is really lovely. To get food and see your friends and family and sleep in a bed is lovely. After that, you usually start to get a bit depressed. You think: "Is that it?" There's that big slump -- doing that adventure hasn't solved your problems, as it's the same when you're back. It's not long before you get itchy feet and start planning.
ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS
interview, "Alastair Humphreys, the man who cycled the world and thought 'What else can I do?'", Herts & Essex Observer, January 25, 2016
If an adventure is what the doctor ordered, don't be afraid to take that first step.
JEREMY PITTARI
"Choosing your life's career path", Picayune Item, February 6, 2016