Quotes about Adventure

I was offered a screen test for a business show on Japanese TV. I did it for a laugh, really, and I got the job. It turned out to be a pretty brave yet brilliant decision.

You wanderer on the path! There is no path, only wandering.

Fairy tales can come true It can happen to you If you're young at heart

I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.

Praying demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh.

Dare to lose your life and you will find it.

Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.