Adventure Quotes - Page 35

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

Your life wasn't meant to be a struggle; it was meant to be an adventure. Start living the adventure now!

Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

For the first time in my life I feel truly free, truly strong and comfortable with who I am and what I stand for. The future feels like an exciting adventure and I am a daring explorer...who knows what I'll discover? But I know it's going to be fun!

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

But I did 'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.' They made a cereal out of it, so once you've had a cereal, it doesn't get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.

Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Get out of control, but appear under control. It?s not bad to alarm other people, though ? it?s good for them.

And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.