Great Adventure Quotes

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Travel, Adventure

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• I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Susan Sontag (2017). “Stories: Collected Stories”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Aug. 1949-Feb. 1953”

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life, Good Night, Travel

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.52, Pottermore

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• Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Adventure, Journey

  Paul Theroux (2011). “The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Life, Summer

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Inspirational, Travel, Adventure

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Creativity, Adventure

  "Citadelle". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1948.

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• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death, Travel, Adventure

  J. K. Rowling (2002). “Spark Notes Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, Spark Notes

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• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Travel, Adventure, Soul Beauty

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1983). “Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches”

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• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Neale Donald Walsh's Little Book of Life: A User's Manual”, p.95, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cute, Marriage, Funny Love

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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• Always remember, it's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Adventure, Dragons

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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