1. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

William
Feather
2. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential
facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau
3. As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
4. Somebody ought to tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we
might live life to the limit every minute of every day. Do it, I say, whatever you want to
do, do it now. Michael Landon
5. A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent
to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is
even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter that the outcome, he will know he has
been alive. Walt Disney
6. Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. Alan
Sachs
7. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. T.S
Eliot
8. If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
9. Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but
you have ceased to live. Henry David Thoreau
10. I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our
sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never
have lived. Harold Kushner

11. Follow your bliss, and doors will open for you that you never knew existed. Follow
your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
12. When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him
boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was
only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest
enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Friedrich Nietzsche
14. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didnt 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. Mark Twain
15. 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
16. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn
out, and loudly proclaiming WOW What a Ride! -Anon.
17. I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I
want to have lived the width of it as well. -Diane Ackerman
18. Look, I really dont want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if youre alive, youve
got to flap your arms and legs, youve got to jump around a lot, youve got to make a lot
of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. Mel Brooks
19. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-W. M. Lewis

20. Remember what Bilbo used to say: Its a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your
door. You step onto the road, and if you dont keep your feet, theres no knowing where
you might be swept off to. J.R.R. Tolkien
21. Always remember, its simply not an adventure worth telling if there arent any
dragons. Sarah Ban Breathnach
22. A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and
renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends,
taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints. Wilfred Peterson
23. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound
ourselves. Thomas Alva Edison
24. It is never too late to be who you might have been. George Eliot
25. And the day came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the
risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
26. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is
more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
27. If one advances confidently in the direction of ones dreams, and endeavors to live
the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours. Henry David Thoreau
28. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
29. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a
snowflake. Marie B. Ray
30. A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd
31. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach
out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt

32. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage. Anais Nin

33. Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it
bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an
unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade,
to win and lose many a battle. Annie Besant
34. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the
new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security
in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life and in change there is
power. Alan Cohen Quotes
35. When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of
adventure, full of knowledge. Constantine P. Cavafy (read the whole poem Ithaca
here).
36. Dont die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. Steve
Pavlina
37. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katharine Hepburn
38. At dusk the three of us encountered an elderly lady and her beagle hiking toward
us. Teetering along on a walking stick, she wore a motoring cap and held a bunch of
wildflowers. I said hello and asked her where she was going. She replied in Welsh,
Rydw i yna yn barod. We looked to Erica for a translation. She said, Im already
there. -A Ramble in Wales, from National Geographic Traveler
39. Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you
come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
40. Its not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to
the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly. Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself
in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,

and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. -Teddy
Roosevelt
41. The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty YES! to
your adventure. Joseph Campbell
42. Id been having dreams lately, drunken dreams with their peculiar lucidity in which
the Experience Trail, the High Seas seemed to call louder and louder, more and more
insistently with a voice that was at the same time musica sirens song that almost
threatened me if I refused to obey its quixotic urgings . . . Sol Luckman
43. adventures dont come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town.
You have to go looking for them. unknown
44. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they dont define them, or
ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where
they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the
adventure with them. Denis Watley
45. There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing. Sir Rannulph
Fiennes
46. A man does not climb a mountain without bringing some of it away with him, and
leaving something of himself upon it. Sir Martin Conway
47. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to
play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
48. Your time is limited, so dont waste it living someone elses life. Dont be trapped by
dogma which is living with the results of other peoples thinking. Dont let the noise of
others opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to
become. Everything else is secondary. Steve Jobs

49. Adventure isnt hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an
attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life. John Amatt
50. Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always
interesting. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe