Quotes about Adventure
Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
— Alain de Botton
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
— Henry David Thoreau
Abraham, a simple farmer, at a word from the Invisible God, marched, with family and stock, through the terrible desert to a distant land to live among a people whose language he could neither speak nor understand! Not bad, that!
— CT Studd
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
— Oscar Wilde
There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.
— Oscar Wilde
Realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism--that is what our century wants.
— Oscar Wilde
What would you attempt to do if you knew you couldn't fail?" When I got that, I thought, Of course, I would just go for it! And that's what you've got to do every single day of your thirties and beyond. Just go for it! Your life is now.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
If the means to a well-lived life is to take the road less traveled, first you have to get on the road.
— Pamela Redmond Satran
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
— Dale Carnegie
The experience of missing a loved one is a small clue that we were made for eternity. Dallas would be the first to insist that the overarching point of his life was not his presence, but rather, like the intentionality of thoughts itself, the grand and beautiful realities he was pointing to. It's all there, if we have eyes to see, ears to hear, minds to think and hearts to feel. The rest is the adventure of our lives.
— Dallas Willard
Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
— Pope John Paul II