It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Adventure is a path...Real adventure - self-determined , self-motivated, often risky - forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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.
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.
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
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.
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
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