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  • #1
    “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
    ― Tim Daly
    tags: adventure, challenge, danger, excitement, self, skiing, sports
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    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
    tags: adventure
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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  • #4
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: family, friends, parties, social
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  • #5
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: encouragement, gandalf
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Never laugh at live dragons.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
    tags: dragons, wisdom
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  • #7
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: faith
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  • #8
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: hope, inspirational, love
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  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “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 off to.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
    tags: lotr, war
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  • #11
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “The Road goes ever on and on
    Down from the door where it began.
    Now far ahead the Road has gone,
    And I must follow, if I can,
    Pursuing it with eager feet,
    Until it joins some larger way
    Where many paths and errands meet.
    And whither then? I cannot say”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: road
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  • #12
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: friendship, frodo
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  • #14
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked.
    "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
    tags: caged, fear, gender-roles
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  • #15
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
    tags: light, moon, sense-of-wonder, stars
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: adventure
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    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: adventure, explanations, patience, storytelling
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  • #18
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
    tags: adventure, fantasy, tales
    1282 likes

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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
    I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: adventure
    970 likes

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  • #20
    Danny Kaye
    “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
    ― Danny Kaye
    tags: adventure, art, life
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  • #21
    Herman Melville
    “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, adventuresome, adventurous, just-do-it, sailing, travel, travels
    248 likes

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  • #22
    Christopher McCandless
    “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
    ― Christopher McCandless
    tags: adventure, horizons, inspiration, life, motivation, travel
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  • #23
    CrimethInc.
    “I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.”
    ― Nigel Davis
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  • #24
    Robert Macfarlane
    “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
    ― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
    tags: adventure, arrogance, humility, inspirational, mountaineering, mountains, oblivion
    300 likes

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  • #25
    Douglas Adams
    “And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
    tags: adventure, grammar, grammar-humor, humor, humour, science-fiction, space-travel, star-trek-references
    139 likes

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  • #26
    André Gide
    “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
    ― André Gide
    tags: adventure, courage, journey
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  • #27
    Robert E. Howard
    “Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
    ― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan
    tags: adventure, character-defining
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  • #28
    Holly Lisle
    “Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”
    ― Holly Lisle, The Silver Door
    tags: adventure, attitude, survival
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  • #29
    Edmund Hillary
    “I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”
    ― Edmund Hillary
    tags: adventure
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  • #30
    Lisa Ann Sandell
    “They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.”
    ― Lisa Ann Sandell, A Map of the Known World
    tags: adventure, dreams, travel
    75 likes



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