adventure on Accomplishment

The British mountaineer George Leigh Mallory became famous after multiple expeditions on Mount Everest. On a book tour in the U.S. in 1923, people would regularly ask him the question, “why did you wa...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

Journalist Eric Severeid recalls a valuable lesson he learned at seventeen while preparing for an ambitious journey. He and a friend had set out to canoe from Minneapolis to the historic fur-trading p...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

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...

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.

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

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

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

“You are my greatest adventure.”

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

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...

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!

In John Perkins’ memoir, Dream with Me, the civil rights leader describes how a life lived with God can change very suddenly, and what was seemingly impossible can become possible: How in the world ...

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

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

It is characteristic of any great work of literature to have in its ending something that brings a sense of harmony to the whole. Like the finale of a symphony, or the confetti at the end of a nationa...

To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.

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

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

I’d grown up in a Boston suburb where people’s homes were set behind deep hedges or protected by huge yards and neighbors hardly knew each other. And they didn’t need to: nothing ever happened in my t...

Insistence on security is incompatible with the way of the cross. What daring adventures the incarnation and the atonement were! What a breach of convention and decorum that Almighty God should renoun...

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

“I am not made for perilous quests,” cried Frodo. “I wish I had never seen the Ring! Why did it come to me? Why was I chosen?” “Such questions cannot be answered,” said Gandalf. “You may be sure that ...

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

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.