Adventure in Words - Theirs and Mine

THEIRS:
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure – William Feather

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death – Leonardo da Vinci

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

Death is more universal than life, everyone dies but not everyone lives – Alan Sachs

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go – T.S Eliot

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

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

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intentions 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! Anonymous

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

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. W. M. Lewis

It is never too late to be who might have been – George Eliot

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

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. – Ambrose Redmoon

We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake. Marie B. Ray

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are built for - John A. Shedd

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for the newer and richer experience – Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be – Steve Pavlina

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun – Katherine Hepburn

Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s 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

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore – Andre Gide

Adventure is worthwhile – Aristotle

Adventure: the pursuit of life – Daniel Roy Wiarda

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn – Lloyd Alexander

We live in a world 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

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors – William Blake

Adventure is worthwhile – Aesop

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves, in finding themselves - Andre Gide

Life is either a great adventure or nothing – Helen Keller

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you – E.L. Konigsburg

A life lived in fear is a life half lived – Anonymous Adventurer

You may never get rid of the butterflies but you can teach them how to fly in formation – Anonymous Adventurer

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new – Voltaire on adventure

We in middle age require adventure – Carolyn Heilbrun (okay, I'm a senior, but a late bloomer)

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice – Cherokee Expression

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, “Grow, grow.” – The Talmud

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem – David Carradine

I just love the spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn’t – Johnny Knoxville

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind – Dr. Seuss

You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way – Lady Gaga

Nothing is really ‘safe’ – Bam Margera

Security is mostly a superstition – Helen Keller

Life is full of beauty, notice it – Author unknown

We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for – George Mallory, on climbing Mt. Everest

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life – Muhhamed Ali

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it – Clint Eastwood

Don’t tell me how educated you are. Tell me how much you’ve traveled – Mohammed

The world is an interesting place to the imaginative mind – Author unknown

Just do it – Nike slogan

MINE
Watch out my dear polar bears, here I come!!