“We are a plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“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
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces”
Anatole France
“Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"”
Mark Twain
“Be not the slave of your own past ... plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience, that shall explain and overlook the old.”
“There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.”
William Least Heat Moon
“The whole country is filled with adventures, but there is [also] adventure just in the visual landscape alone. There is always something familiar, but if it looks too familiar, you just have to look a little farther for the oddity.”
Chris Patterson
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