Quotes about Adventure

When he was a child, that man wanted to travel, too. But he decided first to buy his bakery and put some money aside. When he's an old man, he's going to spend a month in Africa. He never realized that people are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I'm wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.

He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.

The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an unknown even if we all stay right here where tradition is kept and every piece of ground is familiar?

And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

From Tiger's Bay in Belfast to the MGM in Vegas... it's been some ride so far. And the best is still to come.