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• Adventure: An unusual and exciting or daring experience. Oxford Dictionary
• Adventure: An unusual, exciting, and possibly dangerous activity, such as a trip or experience, or the excitement produced by such an activity. Cambridge University
• Adventure: An exciting or very unusual experience.  Dictionary.com
• Adventure: An undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks.  Merriam Webster
• Excitement,  Surprise,  Being fully alive,  Life is a gift,  Life is a journey,  Exploration,  Enjoyment,  Risk taking,  Positivity

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Adventure is the essence of life

• Life is an adventure, dare it. Mother Teresa
• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. Leo F. Buscaglia
• Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the sooner we will be able to treat life as art. Maya Angelou
• Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. Maya Angelou
• Adventure is the essence of life. Dick Rutan
• One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. William Feather
• Your life is not a problem to be solved, but an adventure to be enjoyed. Alan Cohen
• We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. Jawaharlal Nehru
• Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller
• Anything, everything, little or big becomes an adventure when the right person shares it. Kathleen Norris
• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. Annie Besant
• Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one’s bridges because you’re never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end. Saul D. Alinsky
• Life is an adventure. I can only wonder what treasure awaits at the top of the path.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• If life was easy, where would all the adventures be?
• As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure. Hans Zimmer
• Every life comes with a story … and a possibility for a great adventure. Kobi Yamada
• Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty and love. Saul D. Alinsky
• Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it. A. Bucchianeri
• Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. Annie Besant
• You’re a hero on an adventure. Danielle LaPorte
• To be human is to participate in human adventures that outlive us. Frank Feather

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Adventure is an attitude …

• An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G.K. Chesterton
• I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life. Paulo Coelho
• Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot
• Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential. John Amatt
• Every single problem that you have in your life is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Once you have that perception, you open up to a whole range of possibilities — and this keeps the mystery, the wonder, the excitement, the adventure alive. Deepak Chopra
• Try to imagine it as an adventure, all sorts of things might happen. The Railway Children
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… that brings meaning and aliveness to life

• Adventure begins with you, personally. It is in the way you look at things.  It is the mental stance you take as you face your day.  It is finding magic in things.  It is talking with people and discovering their inner goodness.  It is the thrill of feeling a part of the life around you.  The attitude of adventure will open things up for you.  The world will become alive with new zest and meaning.  You’ll become more aware of the beauty everywhere.  Nothing will seem unimportant.  Everything will be revealed as having pattern and purpose. Wilferd A. Peterson
• Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure. Irving Wallace
• When we view life with a spirit of adventure and look for the excitement that comes with change, it predisposes us to love life with its endless variety of thrills and challenges. Jonathan Wells
• I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security. William Orville Douglas
• Meaning,  Being fully alive

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Adventure awakens creativity

• Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. Alfred North Whitehead
• Creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people’s lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. Stephen Covey
• Art advances between two chasms, which are frivolity and propaganda. On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lies the freedom of art. Albert Camus
• Art is an adventure that never seems to end. Jason, Los Cerros
• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. Somerset Maugham
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Adventure brings happiness and joy

• It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• 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. Jon Krakauer
• Put the twinkle in your eye by placing some sparkle in your life: a little adventure can turn a simple day into a stunning one… Robert Beno
• It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Happiness,  Joy

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Adventure leads to self-discovery

• The basic story of the hero journey involves giving up where you are, going into the realm of adventure, coming to some kind of symbolically rendered realization, and then returning to the field of normal life. Joseph Campbell
• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. Andre Gide
• Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient that fuels daring. Grace Lichtenstein
• We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Mary Dunbar
• Discovery,  Self-knowledge,  Self-awareness

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Adventure feeds the human soul

• Adventure is a need. Toba Beta
• If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans… When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man. Wilfrid Noyce
• Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West
• You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! John Taylor Gatto
• Adventure is not outside man; it is within.  George Eliot
• Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West
• Jobs fill your pocket, adventures fill your soul. Jaimie Lyn Beatty
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Embrace the adventure of life …

• A philosophy of life: I’m an adventurer, looking for treasure. Paulo Coelho
• I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure. Tim Cahill
• I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. Jim Dale
• Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. Aristophanes
• The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell
• We’re the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters, triumphs, challenges, impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!  Richard Bach
• A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Laurence Sterne
• The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. Paulo Coelho
• Every so often let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves. Carol Pearson
• Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart

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… by going out looking for it …

• Adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them. Jimmy Buffett
• Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. K. Rowling
• If adventure does not wait on the doorstep, climb out through the window. Marleen Loesje
• Pursue meaningful adventures. Chris Guillebeau
• Adventure must start with running away from home. William Bolitho

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… by taking paths untraveled …

• Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. Edward Abbey
• Follow your own path

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… by facing and transcending fear …

• We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us on all our exciting adventures… Susan Jeffers
• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Don’t worry about being worried. You’re heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. Tracy Kidder
• 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
• Fear will try to stop you. Doubts will try to stop you. You’ll shy away from doing great things, from going on new adventures, from creating something new and putting it out in the world, because of self- doubt and fear. Become aware of these doubts and fears. Shine some light on them. Beat them with a thousand tiny cuts. Do it anyway, because they are wrong. Leo Babauta
• Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter for discovery and adventure, rather than fear. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Fear,  Courage

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… by breaking routine …

• A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints. Wilfred Peterson
• If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal. Paulo Coelho
• Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. Maya Angelou
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… by embracing and exploring the unknown …

• The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. O. Henry
• All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. Sally Ride
• Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. Henry van Dyke
• In your willingness to step into the unknown, you will have the wisdom of uncertainty factored in. This means that in every moment of your life, you will have excitement, adventure, mystery. You will experience the fun of life — the magic, the celebration, the exhilaration, and the exultation of your own spirit. Deepak Chopra
• It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey. Jeffrey R. Anderson
• I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them. Elizabeth Taylor
• Many live in dread of what is coming. Why should we? The unknown puts adventure into life. … The unexpected around the corner gives a sense of anticipation and surprise. Thank God for the unknown future. E. Stanley Jones
• Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port. Robert Aris Willmott
• The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare to let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure. Richard Bach
• 20 years from now you will be disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the one’s you did. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. Isidor Isaac Rabi
• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. Edwin Hubble
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… by embracing uncertainty and change …

• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Jacob Bronowski
• There is no certainty; there is only adventure. Roberto Assagioli
• I welcome change as a great adventure. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• Change,  Let go of the need for certainty

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… by actualising potential and possibility …

• Live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. The actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime. Herbert Otto
• One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world: making the most of one’s best. Harry Emerson Fosdick
• I am open and available to the infinite possibilities of the universe. My life is an extraordinary adventure. Darren R. Weissman
• What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfilment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfilment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. Joseph Campbell
• Potential,  Possibility

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… by embracing danger …

• The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. Paulo Coelho
• Take all the necessary precautions. But live intensely and dangerously. Eric Maisel
• Adventure without risk is Disneyland. Doug Coup land
• Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the human condition its unique character and genius among the rest of living things. Rene Dubois
• You can’t prepare for everything life’s going to throw at you. And you can’t avoid danger. It’s there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you’ll out on all the adventure. Jeannette Walls
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… and daring to take risks …

• A good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There’s always the possibility of a fiasco. But there’s also the possibility of bliss. Joseph Campbell
• Life is an adventure, dare it. Mother Theresa
• Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller
• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. Dale Turner
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… by embracing new ideas, and thoughts and ways of doing things …

• The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them. A. N. Whitehead
• For me, the adventures of the mind, each inflection of thought, each movement, nuance, growth, discovery, is a source of exhilaration. Anaïs Nin
• A man practices the art of adventure when he is unafraid of new ideas, new theories and new philosophies. When he has the curiosity to experiment–to test and try new ways of living and thinking. Wilfred A. Peterson
• Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvellous adventures that anyone can have. Lloyd Alexander
• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavour of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn’t and that is exactly why we do. Brigid Lowry
• The practical man is the adventurer, the investigator, the believer in research, the asker of questions, the man who refuses to believe that perfection has been attained…. It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way. Henry R. Harrower
• Ideas,  Explore new approaches

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… by learning new things …

• The adventure of life is to learn. William Arthur Ward
• There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn. Gordon B. Hinckley
• The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his life’s adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings. Lincoln Steffens
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… by daring to ask questions …

• Ask lots of questions. The greatest ‘adventure’ is the ability to inquire, to ask questions. Sometimes in the process of inquiry, the search is more significant than the answers. The simple act of asking the right questions is the answer.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance? Frank Moore Colby
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… by embracing your dreams …

• The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey
• The pleasure of the search and of adventure feeds our dreams. Paulo Coelho
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… by giving yourself to your purpose …

• A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness. Nathaniel Branden
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… by pursuing new experiences …

• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Henry David Thoreau
• The traveller was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing. Daniel J. Boorstin
• Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? Richard Aldington
• I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a ‘wanderess.’ Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences – whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her. Roman Payne
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… by abandoning moderation …

• If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure. Chris Guillebeau
• A moderate adventure is no adventure. Terri Guillemets
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… by stretching your comfort zone …

• Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie. Herbie Hancock
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… by meeting new people …

• If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.  Eleanor Roosevelt

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… by getting out into nature

• Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion. Lorraine Anderson
• Nature creates people’s homes on earth. It is a home of contrasts; of good and evil, beauty and ugliness, tranquillity and terror.  The whole natural world is the background against which people play their heroic part in the eternal adventure of their becoming.  Wilferd A. Peterson
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Adventure is the spirit of childhood; of youth

• I’m still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it. Jim Dale
• In that world, you’ll be able to rise in the morning with the spirit you had known in your childhood: that spirit of eagerness, adventure and certainty which comes from dealing with a rational universe. Ayn Rand
• This world demands the qualities of youth; not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease. Robert F. Kennedy
• There is no doubt that life can be a bumpy ride. But so were those roller coasters you loved as a kid. Savour the adventure.  Find excitement in the uncertainty and the constant change.  Even let a touch of fear add spice to your life – as you did on that roller coaster.  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Marriage is an adventure

• People do not marry people, not real ones anyway; they marry what they think the person is; they marry illusions and images. The exciting adventure of marriage is finding out who the partner really is. James L. Framo
• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. Voltaire
• Marriage is an adventure like going to war.  K. Chesterton
• If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all! Richard Bach
• The word “romance,” according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime. Billy Graham
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Death is an adventure

• Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. Charles Frohman
• To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. K. Rowling
• To die would be an awfully big adventure. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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• My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, all is good. Louise Hay

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• A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. Arthur ‘Bugs’ Baer
• Adventure is just bad planning.  Roald Amundsen
• He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating oysters. James I
• In this adventure Harry will do battle with giant lizards, face the attack of the Death Eaters and in perhaps the most difficult task of all for a 14-year-old, ask a girl to be his date at the Yule Ball.
• No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
• Would you like an adventure now…. or would you like to have your tea first? Wendy said “tea first” quickly, and Michael pressed her hand in gratitude…. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
• Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure. Emily Wing Smith

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