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Adventurous Life Quotes

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.

Christopher McCandless
Men, Reality, Adventurous Life
Letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher McCandless
Adventure, Adventurous Life, New Experiences

If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.

Stephen Hunt
Motivational, Adventurous Life, Space

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

Christopher McCandless
Adventurous Life, New Experiences, Monotonous Life
In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992.

The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.

Paul Tournier
Inspirational, Adventurous Life, Kind

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.

Lewis Carroll
Patience, Adventure, Adventurous Life

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen
Courage, Adventure, Adventurous Life
Alan Cohen (1990). “Joy Is My Compass: Taking the Risk to Follow Your Bliss”, Dolphin Communications Company

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

Sherman Alexie
Adventurous Life, Borders, Individual

The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

Raymond B. Fosdick
Adventure, Adventurous Life, May

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.

Raymond B. Fosdick
Book, Thinking, Adventurous Life

I have always wanted an adventurous life. It took a long time to realize that I was the only one who could make an adventurous life happen to me.

Richard Bach
Adventurous Life, Long, Realizing

Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.

Margaret Craven
Past, Rivers, Adventurous Life
Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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