Quotes about Adventure

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

The ship is safest when it is in port, but that's not what ships were built for.

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

How in the world could you ever imagine a life of faith that does not require risk? Faith and risk are inseparable.

You get one life. I'm going to embrace mine.

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

Lie life through its fullest