Adventure

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. – Aesop

Adventure is not outside; it is within. – Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if youd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. Its more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – Ray Bradbury

And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. – Sir Winston Churchill

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. – George Farquhar

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador – Sigmund Freud

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. – David Grayson

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure. – Rachel Naomi Remen

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. – Laurence Sterne

You cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Dont let yourself indulge in vain wishes. – Rabindranath Tagore

I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore. – Rabindranath Tagore

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and Im not afraid to look behind them. – Elizabeth Taylor

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t. – William Trogdon

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. – Vincent Van Gogh

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

The test of an adventure is that when youre in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now Ive got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that somethings wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. – Thornton Wilder

If we didnt live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, Ive no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. – Virginia Woolf