Adventurous Life Quotes - Page 2

• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

  Christopher McCandless

  New Experiences, Monotonous Life, People

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

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• One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

  William Feather

  Life, Happiness, Adventure

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• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Travel, Adventure

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• Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

  George Eliot

  Wisdom, Travel, Adventure

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

  Diane Ackerman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  All Things Considered (1908) "On Running after one's Hat"

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• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Death, Suicide

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Nov 01, 2015

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• I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Hate, Memorable

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1919, GENERAL PRESS

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• ...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, New Experiences, Monotonous Life

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• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

  Lewis Carroll

  Patience, Adventure, Wonderland

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• Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Nature

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• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

  Alan Cohen

  Life, Change, Meaningful

  Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

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  If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Katharine Hepburn (1987). “The making of The African Queen, or, How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and almost lost my mind”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

  Grace Hopper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.

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• The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Adventure, May, Herds

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• Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

  Margaret Craven

  Past, Rivers, Waiting

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

  Paul Tournier

  Inspirational, Kind, Life Is

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• I have always wanted an adventurous life.  It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

  Richard Bach

  Long, Realizing, Life Happens

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• I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

  Sherman Alexie

  Borders, Individual, Should

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• The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Book, Thinking, People

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