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  • #1
    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

  • #2
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #3
    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #4
    Oprah Winfrey
    “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey

  • #5
    Alexandre Dumas
    “Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

  • #6
    Lewis Carroll
    “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #7
    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton

  • #8
    Augustine of Hippo
    “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
    ― St. Augustine of Hippo

  • #9
    Lloyd Alexander
    “Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander

  • #10
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #11
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett

  • #12
    Danny Kaye
    “Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
    ― Danny Kaye

  • #13
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard

  • #14
    Roman Payne
    “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
    ― Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

  • #15
    Charles Dickens
    “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.”
    ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

  • #16
    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
    ― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

  • #17
    Jason Mraz
    “Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.”
    ― Jason Mraz

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Ansel Adams
    “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
    ― Ansel Adams

  • #20
    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    ― E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

  • #21
    Grace Willows
    “You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
    ― Grace Willows, To Kiss a King

  • #22
    Herman Melville
    “I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #23
    Seanan McGuire
    “Some adventures require nothing more than a willing heart and the ability to trip over the cracks in the world.”
    ― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

  • #24
    “I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
    ― Tim Daly

  • #25
    Jack Kerouac
    “So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

  • #26
    André Gide
    “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
    ― André Gide

  • #27
    Dean F. Wilson
    “Dynamite is loyal to the one who lights the fuse.”
    ― Dean F. Wilson, Skyshaker

  • #28
    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

  • #29
    Nikki Rowe
    “There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.”
    ― Nikki rowe

  • #30
    George Eliot
    “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
    ― George Eliot



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