Quotes on Adventure

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

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.

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us.

The dance, just as the performance of the actor, is kinesthetic art, art of the muscle sense. The awareness of tension and relaxation within his own body, the sense of balance that distinguishes the proud stability of the vertical from the risky adventures of thrusting and falling--these are the tools of the dancer.

I get up in the morning looking for an adventure.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Take care, lest an adventure is now offered you, which, if accepted, will plunge you in deepest woe.

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

First, I am afraid to die and I love to live. But an adventure is only an adventure when there is the threat of dying.

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

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

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

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.