Quotes about Adventure

where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.

Lie life through its fullest

In the snowstorm you came close to wild animals and they were not afraid. They travelled across country not knowing where they were and the deer stood sometimes in the lee of the cabin. In a snowstorm you rode up to a moose and he mistook your horse for another moose and trotted forward to meet you. In a snowstorm it always seemed, for a time, as though there were no enemies.

I learned one thing." "What?" "Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.

That's all we do, isn't it—look at things and try new drinks?

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

Often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

If we can ever get the hang of life as God intended, then it becomes an adventure to be lived instead of an unknown to be feared.

I am the fastest woman on four wheels.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.