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• Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

  John Muir

  Home, Environmental, Trying

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.364, Library of America

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• Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Life, Change, Travel

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• For nearly a quarter of a century, I have been engaged in the investigation of the fundamentals of life, the material universe and human behavior. Such an adventure leads one down many highways, through many byroads, into many back alleys of uncertainty, through many strata of life...

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Back Alleys, Fundamentals, Behavior

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• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

  Laurence Sterne

  Life, Heart, May

  Laurence Sterne (1832). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.260

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• The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

  Thornton Wilder

  Home, Wish, Sitting

  Thornton Wilder (2016). “Our Town and Other Plays”, p.293, Penguin UK

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• If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Inspirational, Future, Tadpoles

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  John Steinbeck

  Marriage, Travel, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• In that world, you'll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe.

  Ayn Rand

  Morning, Childhood, Religion

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.816, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Travel, Sunshine, Railroads

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.

  Ernie Harwell

  Goodbye, Attitude, Thinking

  Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

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• I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.

  Jill Hennessy

  Live Life, Journey, Men

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• The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Nature, Travel

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.318

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  In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

  John Muir

  Nature, Garden, Yellowstone

  John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.67, e-artnow

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• For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Travel, Funny Travel, Sufficient

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1938.

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• Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Adventurous

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• The journey itself is my home.

  Matsuo Basho

  Travel, Home, Journey

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• Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Alive, Yeah

  Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill (2001). “Spirits White as Lightning”, p.444, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Hiking, Climbing

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

  Paulo Coelho

  Comfort, Ease, Danger

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• May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Teamwork, Travel, Home

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• Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, Sleep, Ideas

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• Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life's greatest pleasures!

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Fun, Pleasure

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• I have but one life to give to adventure.

  Alexander Eliot

  Giving

  "Fictional character: Bors". "The Adventures of Sir Galahad", www.imdb.com. 1949.

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