My life, will be a beautiful adventure, with or without you in it.

Leaving what feels secure behind and following the beckoning of our hearts doesn’t always end as we expect or hope. We may even fail. But here’s the payoff: it can also be amazing and wonderful...

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant…it’s the excuses that change.

All things in Fiji are paid for in blood.

Unexplored paths lead to undiscovered treasures

I wonder what inspires gamblers. Is it the adventure or the love of laziness?

It’s the unknown that draws people.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty...

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

I don’t have a command for ‘stop wagging your tail’.

I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!” said Fili. “My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is...

You don’t have to tell them. All they need to do is look in the mirror. I have one friend out in New York, an attorney. She moved out there after the school year to...

Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox collection.) But a people collection? That had to be the most bizarre one...

I could have drowned today. If they hadn’t been screaming my name so loudly and if I hadn’t woken up, I would have drowned.

As the sky began to darken she sank down in the chair. She had just watched over a thousand Alliance soldiers die in the space of less than a minute. Yet the encounter would be...

How delusional are you, aliens in your head notwithstanding?

Life in the wild, as I’m observing, is about survival as much as pleasure.

Ils étaient les hommes et les femmes du sable, du vent, de la lumière, de la nuit. Ils étaient apparus, comme dans un rêve, en haut d’une dune, comme s’ils étaient nés du ciel sans...

Explore the wonders of different shades of colours. It is purely lovely.

You’ve been one busy worm!

There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

Adventure,’ then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself...

La littérature est un thé tre à ciel ouvert qui permet de transformer les êtres les plus simples en héros universels, loin des parterres présomptueux.Conrad, Le Voyageur de l’inquiétude

Most tales carry a kernel of truth, else they’re soon forgotten.

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

Wisdom Is The Principal Thing

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.

Matt was almost completely naked. A tattered loincloth and an ugly chain with a yellow diamond were his only apparel.

I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a—Mother!I was going to say arm.

This would become a lifelong pattern, sitting in my comfort zone high above the world in some sort of self-imposed exile.

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think…It does not adapt either its pace...

My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.

I had never seen the view at this time before, at the very pinnacle of night when sunset was far behind us and dawn had not yet risen rosy-fingered from the horizon. The night was...

She [Catherine of Siena] found a place of refuge in a lonely wood, where some hermits lived. It is generally thought that this brotherhood was the community of hermits in Vallombrosa, founded by St. John...

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly

God makes the best roller coasters.

They told me adventures were over, so I got off the internet and got on a plane. They told me kindness was a thing of the past, so I spent a year helping others in...

So tall and lithe in his suede and leather outfit. So utterly gorgeous it almost ached to look at him.

Our ability to discover new experiences exists outside of who we are in the Box.

Remember what Bilbo used to say: 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...

See it, learn it, do it ALL.

Currents of cigarette fumes wafted through what passed for air. Attractive young women in bright-hued gowns glided through the streams of smoke, like tropical fish in an aquarium. Detecting the white uniforms and leathery faces,...

A blur. That’s what it felt like to me

Which does not alter the fact that you are insane.

He had seen many criminals in his years in Division. Dangerous men and even more dangerous women. Small-time hucksters and savvy crime lords. Spies, gangsters, assassins, insurgents and wannabe-revolutionaries. True believers and soulless mercs willing...

I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously...

The romance of danger and adventure in forbidden places.

Kammy could see the palace built into the cliff face. It was a majestic construction. Its white walls stretched up into a cluster of turrets and towers. Its façade was broken by gigantic windows that...