Adventure quotes
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"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
"Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be."
"Going to the mountains is going home."
"I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end."
"I’m an ordinary girl who believed in her dream."
"I like adventures, and I’m going to find some."
"I'm not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me."
"I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."
"Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things... new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends."
"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
"Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else."
"Here is adventure. Here is romance. Here is mystery. Tropical rivers – silently flowing into the unknown. The unbelievable splendor of exotic flowers … the eerie sound of the jungle … with eyes that are always watching. This is Adventureland."
"I am not reinventing myself. I am going through the layers and revealing myself. I am on a journey, an adventure that's constantly changing shape."
"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me."
"You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey."
"Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero."
"The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being."
"The greatest adventure is what lies ahead"
"Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents."
"Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things. It is the mental stance you take as you face your day. It is finding magic in things. It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness. It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you. The attitude of adventure will open things up for you. The world will become alive with new zest and meaning. You'll become more aware of the beauty everywhere. Nothing will seem unimportant. Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose."
