A Quotes
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“Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.”
Source: The Voyage of the Bounty
“Adventure begins with a question. Some doors open only when you’re ready to step through the Passage. Every riddle reveals more than just an answer. Stories don’t end. They open different worlds.”
“Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose.”
“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.”
“Adventure, creativity, and novelty...
is human nature,
And I am a Human!
Journey is its fate,
And I am traveling it”
“Adventure does not exist. It exists only in the mind of the man who pursues it, and as soon as his fingers graze it, it vanishes to appear much further off, in another form, at the limits of the imagination.”
“Adventure doesn't begin until you get into the forest.”
“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”
“Adventure is a need.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure - self-determined, self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind - and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.”
“Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.”
“Adventure is a sign of incompetence.”
Source: My Life with the Eskimos
“Adventure is about what we do; not what we plan, strategize or dream about. Adventure begins with “what ifs” and “why nots.” “What if I were to step out to chase that dream? Why not take the first steps and see what happens? When we step through the doorway of adventure our life is suddenly worth the living. And we experience life as it was meant to be.”
Source: What If...Why Not? Through the Doors of Adventure
“Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?”
Source: Death of a Hero
“Adventure is an attitude, not a behavior.”
Source: Simple Secrets to a Happy Life
“Adventure is calling, and it's time to answer with courage and enthusiasm.”
“Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.”
“Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.”
“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.”
“Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion.”
“Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is.”
Source: What are Masterpieces
“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
“Adventure is not outside; it is within.”
“Adventure is not something you travel to find. It's something you take with you, or you're not going to find it when you arrive.”
“Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man
“Adventure is our birthright.”
Source: Forgotten pleasures: a guide for the seasonal adventurer
“Adventure is out there, it’s heading our way So grab your scarf and goggles, let’s fly! I’ve mapped out our journey, we’re up here to stay. A sunset is our home. A moonbeam we will own. My Spirit of Adventure is you!”
“Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.”
“Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.”
“Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.”
“Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!”
“Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.”
“Adventure is the champagne of life.”
“Adventure is the essence of life.”
“Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.”
“Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.”
“Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.”
“Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.”
“Adventure is where you find it, any place, every place, except at home in the rocking chair.”
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
“Adventure is worthwhile.”
“Adventure must start with running away from home.”
“Adventure runs on all sorts of whiskey.”
Source: Love Her Wild
“Adventure seeker,
Risk taker,
Her art is her heart.”
Source: From My Lips to Hers: Into my Queerness
“Adventure seeker,
Risk taker,
Her art is her heart.
Her sultry gaze,
Her casually defiant cross-dressing,
Her good looks,
Rich, husky contralto.”
Source: From My Lips to Hers: Into my Queerness
“Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.”
“Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago.”
“Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.”
“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)