Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
—Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English Mathematician, Philosopher
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it.
—Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian Playwright
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
—Aesop (620–564 BCE) Greek Fabulist
The test of an adventure is that when you’re in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ‘Oh, now I’ve got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.’ And the sign that something’s wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American Novelist, Playwright
Stuff your eyes with wonder … live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
—Dale Turner (1917–2006) American Priest, Columnist, Epigrammist
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Life is pure adventure and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.
—Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American Poet
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American First Lady, Diplomat, Humanitarian
The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.
—Paulo Coelho (b.1947) Brazilian Songwriter, Novelist
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.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
By now you’ve gotten the picture. We can’t escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us in all our exciting adventures; it is not an anchor holding us transfixed to one spot.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
—William Feather (1889–1981) American Publisher, Author
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
—Voltaire (1694–1778) French Philosopher, Author
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
—Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
—Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist
If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.
—Andrew W. Mellon (1855–1937) American Financier, Philanthropist
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
—Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Philosopher
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
—Constantine P. Cavafy (1863–1933) Egyptian Greek Poet
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
If we didn’t live adventurously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Do not dare not to dare.
—C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) Irish-British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar
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