“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 For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration.” MindStarsGrowthFireMovementAdventureSourceHairCallingDiscoveryJournalRestlessDiariesNuanceExhilaration Author:Anais Nin
“Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your trip, you can still find yourself in a mud slide or a hurricane without a dry piece of clothing to your name. But those of us who have given our time and usually our hearts to outdoorsmen over the years know that, for many of them, it's not really a wilderness trip unless, MacGyver-like, they have to make a fire out of a pair of shorts, a glow stick, and a ketchup bottle; it's not really an adventure until someone gets airlifted out.” KnowsYearsWellsHeartStillsSometimesMatterNamesGivenDecisionFirePiecesAdventureSticksConservativeOur TimeDryPairsWildernessDecision MakingFinding YourselfBottlesClothingsMudSlidesHurricanesShortsKetchupChromosomesMacgyverOutdoorsman Author:Pam Houston
“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
“Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.” PeopleUseShowsEarthUsedValuesWaterSilenceTeachFireAirAdventureBlessingSolitudeImportanceWake UpInfiniteIllnessRageBoredomWakingSilence IsSpontaneityGood HealthTirednessImportance Of Life Author:Paulo Coelho
“We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had a fire on the roof. And missed Los Angeles by 3,500 miles at the end of the trip and ending up in the arctic in a snowstorm.” EndsLostHalfFireAdventureFaultsMilesFuelLos AngelesRoofElectricalArcticSnowstorms Author:Richard Branson
“Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.” FireLandAdventureTravelOceanFlyingShipsFlightBurningBreastsAviationUrgesAirplaneVentureSailingExplorersAdventurerGreat AviationAviatorSailing ShipsForeign LandsFlyersAirplanes And Flying Author:Jean Batten
“Fulfilling the four needs in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of integration, we experience spontaneous combustion - an explosion of inner synergy that ignites the fire within and gives vision, passion, and a spirit of adventure to life.” WayNeedsGivingSpiritualSpiritPassionSocialVisionFireFourAdventureElementsMassCriticalChemistryFulfillingSpontaneousIntegrationExplosionsIntegratedCombiningIgniteSynergyCombustionCritical MassSpirit Of AdventureFire WithinSpontaneous Combustion Author:Stephen Covey
“We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.” FireAdventureRevolutionBedBlueBrownRetirementFatigueRebelliousMigration Author:Oliver Goldsmith
“After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in the ashes you will never learn anything about the fire: by the time the ashes can be handled the meaning has passed on. Every adventure is a cup so empty it can be drunk from again and again and again. Every adventure is so perfect it verges on silence.” IfsShouldGoalPerfectSilenceFireEventsAdventureEmptyDrunkCupsAshesAgain And AgainVergeIllusory Author:M. John Harrison
“You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.” BelieveNightFoundIndividualReligiousDarkFireAdventureOriginalsBoundsGuidesCoreScriptureIntenseBurnedSunriseAvoidingInquiryDark NightGreat Adventure Author:Rajneesh
“Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.” YearsMindEndsEnoughLightEyePastNightSongStarsSoundBehindsFireDyingAdventureSceneMountainTiredCloudsSmokeShootingStringsCampsAsiaMerryHad EnoughFlutesCarnivalsShooting Star Author:Sven Hedin