“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?” WayDoeMadeSoulLightLeftSidesCompanyDarknessAirAdventureSolitudeSkillsAmbitionBraveSurroundDaringCockpit Author:Charles Lindbergh
“My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.” LightPainMovingJoyCareersDarknessPathMeditationJourneyAdventureYogaOngoingUnfoldingDarkness To Light Author:MC Yogi
“For now she need not think of anybody. She coud be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.” ThinkingNeedsWellsSelfFeltDarknessAdventureSilentOneselfCoreInvisibleAttachmentShedVocalWedgesSolemnity Book:To the Lighthouse Source: To the Lighthouse
“But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.” IfsKnowsLooksMeanLittlesUseTurnsDarknessHeardAdventureHonourSailCaptainsBellyFillingPursesImpeachmentPloughingReepicheep Author:C. S. Lewis
“Lots of kids in books are only-child orphans, but I think it’s fun to have family as part of the adventure, to have familial love be as important as romantic love, and to show that love can go through fire and darkness - not unchanged, because experiences like that change everyone - but never faltering” ThinkingChildrenImportantBookShowsKidsFunLove IsDarknessFireAdventureRomantic LoveOrphanOnly ChildFaltering Author:Sarah Rees Brennan
“She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's knights, and she knew everything about Beowulf and Grendel, the ancient gods and the not-quite-so-ancient heroes. She liked pirate stories, too, but most of all she loved books that had at least a knight or a dragon or a fairy in them. She was always on the dragon's side by the way.” WayBookStoriesNamesSidesDarknessAdventureKingsHeroAncientTalesFairyDragonsKnightsPirateBrightnessArthurKing ArthurAncient Gods Book:Inkheart Source: Inkheart
“He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.” MenWorldWayRealEnoughPaySituationDarknessMagicCarAdventureBuiltRiversAbsolutesBlameCrushCharmIntensitySincerityIsolatedRuinedWhisperingReal MenHelenJuggernaut Book:Howards End: England Literature Source: Howards End: England Literature