“My favorite quote: "Life's a daring adventure, or nothing." —Helen Keller, who lived life to the fullest, despite the most challenging of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The quest for enlightenment illustrates the paradox of desire—the fact that you must have desire to be motivated to transcend being ruled… — Paul O'Brien Copy Share Image
“You did things that were supposed to end you and found they were only things that changed you. It was a disappointment… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
At last, psychology gets serious about glee, fun, and happiness. Martin Seligman has given us a gift-a practical map for the perennial… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Daniel understood the complaint. For Daniel, too, had once designed a building, and savored the thrill of seeing it built, only to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I gave you an adventure, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you and that's why… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I am not enough to be only in the mountains, not enough to be on an expedition. I believe that if the… — Jerzy Kukuczka Copy Share Image
That was the biggest thrill, going over to these guy's houses and having them want me to practice with them and they… — Freddie Hubbard Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to convince someone is to use a telling example, a story, a narrative. When Steve Jobs announced… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
“Coordinates streamed into her mind while she yanked on her environment suit, foregoing every safety check she’d ever learned. ‘Alex, we will… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
Part of the excitement was just seeing how the world would respond. I kind of like uncertainty to some extent, because it's… — Paul Buchheit Copy Share Image
When I got hired to do 'Guardians,' it was the dream of a lifetime for me. This is what I've been working… — James Gunn Copy Share Image
“Curiosity, that is, the separate drive to explore the world disinterestedly, without being stimulated by danger or physiological dissatisfaction, is, according to… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
It's been a great experience, it's been a great adventure to see people who were like me, who did not know that… — Jerry Savelle Copy Share Image
Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“She wanted love, adventure, and wild, fierce emotions that would batter her, as storms battered the island. I am thirteen, Christina thought,… — Caroline B. Cooney Copy Share Image
There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Adventure is just about doing something you’ve never done— doing it with enthusiasm and curiosity: doing something difficult with passion. — Alastair Humphreys Copy Share Image
“ Why should I? What do you promise me? Nothing. And everything. A life of danger and adventure. A chance to be… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“My life's been filled with adventures, and truths often become larger than life when they're retold. I never correct the tales that… — Anthony Rudel Copy Share Image
Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
An adventure is never an adventure while it's happening. Challenging experiences need time to ferment, and adventure is simply physical and emotional… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by Harold Robbins. The lead character's name was… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
Say it, reader. Say the word 'quest' out loud. It is an extraordinary word, isn't it? So small and yet so full… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“It had been the most difficult part of coming to terms with what she was; knowing that she had to give up… — Katie Lynn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Technology may have shrunk the epic journey to a couple of short car rides and regional jet legs—four states and twelve hundred… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of… — Mary-Jean Harris Copy Share Image
I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“She took a chicken leg from the table in the biggest kitchen, a cavern lined with so many pots that by the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“You need to be careful of people who tell you that adventure exists at the next turn--because it turns out that they… — Christopher Herz Copy Share Image
“Many people wonder what it means or feels like to go deep. For me, DEEP means finding new adventures within your soul.… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image