Monday, March 30, 2009

Why Seek Adventure?

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
--Rabindranath Tagore



Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
--Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G. K. Chesterton




A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
--Laurence Sterne

It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had.
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross



Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
--Robert F. Kennedy

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




In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
--Dorothy Dix

Fortune and love befriend the bold.
--Ovid