Quotes about Adventure
May you always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go out of the house to see the moon, and' t is mere tinsel; {it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and make a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's not the destination, it's the journey.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.
— Randy Alcorn
If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention.
— Randy Alcorn
Jewel the Unicorn] cried.- I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this.... Come further up, come further in!
— Randy Alcorn
Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2
— Ravi Zacharias
Oh, because a dream is a personal experience of that deep, dark ground that is the support of our conscious lives, and a myth is the society's dream. The myth is the public dream and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it isn't, you've got an adventure in the dark forest ahead of you.
— Joseph Campbell
matinees had borrowed freely from those ancient tales. And that the stories we learned in Sunday school corresponded with those of other cultures that recognized the soul's high adventure, the quest of mortals to grasp the reality of God. He helped me to see the connections, to understand how the pieces fit, and not merely to fear less but to welcome what he described as "a mighty multicultural future.
— Joseph Campbell
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
— Joseph Heller