life on planet earth on Adventure

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

“You are my greatest adventure.”

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either ...

I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that cap...

“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...

As a society of unbelief, Western culture is devoid of a sense of journey, of adventure, because it lacks belief in much more than the cultivation of an ever-shrinking horizon of self-preservation and...

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

In the novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, there is a poem called the “Riddle of Strider.” One stanza goes like this:  All that is gold does not glitter;  Not all who wan...

Heavenly Father, our Savior told us, "Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life for My sake will gain it." These are hard words. We confess that we oft...

When we keep purchasing, keep consuming, and keep envying and coveting, we are pining for what the objects represent: peace, ease, meaning, beauty, stability, adventure, knowledge, renown, connection,...

If you’re familiar with Bach, you may know that at the bottom of his manuscripts, he wrote the initials, “S. D. G.” Soli Deo Gloria, which means “glory to God alone.” What you may not know is that at ...

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

I mean, in the last few months alone, I've been pinned in a big set of white-water rapids, been bitten by an angry snake in a jungle, had a close escapewith a big mountain rockfall, narrowly avoid...

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without reservation or regret.

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our ho...

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

I…vividly remember one of my teachers telling the story of three young boys whose route to school went alongside a high wall. Every day as the boys walked to school, they wondered what was on the othe...

I also vividly remember one of my teachers telling the story of three young boys whose route to school went alongside a high wall. Every day as the boys walked to school, they wondered what was on the...

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

“Yes, that’s so,” said Sam. “And we shouldn’t be here at all, if we’d known more about it before we started. But I suppose its often that way. The brave things in the old tales and songs, Mr. Frodo: a...

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.