Adventure Quotes - Page 8

A blur. That’s what it felt like to me

Jennifer Starzec

All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.

Jennifer Starzec

I'm going home." - Celeste"To never return?" - Uway"Yes, show me the way to never return." - CelesteALL LIGHT WILL FALL

Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.

You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.

Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity.And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

...if you plan everything out completely from beginning to end, you destroy your chance for adventure.

Carine McCandless

An adventurous life does not necessarily mean climbing mountains, swimming with sharks, or jumping off cliffs. It means risking yourself by leaving a little piece of you behind in all those you meet along the way.

Shawna Grapentin

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever namesuits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died.

Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school.

Something can be very funny and then suddenly very terrifying-very exciting, and suddenly very ridiculous. I think that’s what life is like, that’s what interests me.

Some will say that searching for your dreams is like looking for unicorns in an emerald forest.

Only a fool lies brooding over his problems. When the morning comes he's tired out and his problems are the same as before.

I'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

All great adventures start with an idea.

Remember... It's a jungle out there!

Be oblivious to city high-rises, work-related stress and microwave popcorn.

You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.

Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure.

You can judge this book by its cover.

Tom Icon

There is a difference between ‘off-limits’ and those places you can visit without getting caught.

I’ve made it my mission to discover that which is off the beaten track. Somewhere in the undergrowth of the impossible.

So you want me to track down a supernaturally fast sniper who can disappear into thin air, retrieve your maps, and do it so nobody finds out what I'm doing or why?''Exactly.'I sighed. 'I'll get the paperwork.

I’ll be off exploring, searching for those out-of-bounds places where dreams exist.

Breathe deeply, focus your thoughts, and say out loud, “The quest begins here.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

Herman Melville

Under the moon, the road that ran from the edge of her forest gleamed like water, but when she stepped out onto it, away from the trees, she felt how hard it was, and how long. She almost turned back then; but instead she took a deep breath of the woods air that still drifted to her, and held it in her mouth like a flower, as long as she could.

September felt panic burn through her like gasoline. Why couldn't he understand her? "But I didn't [choose]! I have hardly had a chance to breathe since I got here and it's always like that in Fairyland. Everything is always happening and all at once. And I am growing up, Saturday! I am growing up and I have read books, so many books, and I know that growing up means you can't keep going to Fairyland the way you did when you were a child! Something happens to you and suddenly you have to keep a straight face and a straight line and I am afraid! I want something grand and I don't want to know what it is before it happens!

Catherynne M. Valente

A misadventurer's greatest fear is their mother.

My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble.

The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.

There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.

After spending the previous night the way I had, I felt I could afford to lose some of the daytime to sleep.

Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives.

Acting with confidence, but inside lacking certainty, I'd told her I could.

They had to be untrustworthy enough to buy a minor alcohol but trustworthy enough to not walk away with my money.

One thing a girl loves more than a bad boy is a self-aware bad boy.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again?

E Nesbit

As long as you don't kill someone or seriously maim them, sure, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you have a good time.

Misadventure will always cause someone to be pissed off at you, because they don't know what degree you're willing to go to to satisfy your need for misadventure.

Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

An adventurer has a purpose. Such as finding new lands and valuable treasures. A misadventurer, besides doing it for the hell of it and for a good time, doesn't really have a good purpose.

Misadventure asked what the harm was partaking in one more and I decided not to argue with her.

Patience, persistence and hard work lead to success and happiness. Or you can do whatever the hell you want and with a bit or a whole lot of luck you'll stumble onto success and happiness.

What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who's not supposed to say things like that?

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!

E Nesbit

If I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from the easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose myself?

Charlotte Brontë

Sheesh two-legs. You keep screechin' like that, you mind's well tell all 'em Banshee "I'm here, eat me - I bring salt

Veronica Purcell

Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.

I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

A million dollars. Think about it for a moment. It’s not just a large number – it’s a symbol of everything we’ve been told to want in this world. Foreign cars with doors that swing up like magical wings. Houses with in-ground pools and wine cellars. Wines that are older than you, and foods with names that can’t be pronounced by mere mortals. A million dollars would open the kind of doors the general public doesn’t even know exist.

Ana Spoke

My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

The lucky ones are those who take every opportunity and turn every life experience onto truth seeking adventure. They end up full filled with deeper dimensions of pleasure and spirit satisfaction.~Inspired by: Rania Rageh~

When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

Too much negativity can make the strongest structures dilapidate.

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