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Life is an adventure or nothing
Sep 10, 2025
Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.
The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
While cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.
It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
But in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
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.
No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
All that is gold does not glitter.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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 damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon,for each day to have a new and different sun.
The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.