Quotes on Adventure And Life

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

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

Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

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!