Quotes - Rachele (msvanillacourt) Showing 1-13 of 13

#1

“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 adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: adventure

971 likes

#2

“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

tags: adventure, love, romance

1002 likes

#3

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

tags: adventure, reading

686 likes

#4

“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, The Silver Door

tags: adventure, attitude, survival

104 likes

#5

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator

177378 likes

#6

“Of all things, I liked books best.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: books

861 likes

#7

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.”
― Nikola Tesla

tags: humor, inspiration, inspirational, life, science

262 likes

#8

“We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences”
― Nikola Tesla, My Inventions

tags: inspirational, psychological

228 likes

#9

“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

922 likes

#10

“We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: adventures, bilbo-baggins, hobbit

90 likes

#11