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    G.K. Chesterton
    “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives
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    Herman Melville
    “I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: adventure, laughter
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    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin
    tags: adventure, bravery, courage, curiousity, freedom, heroism, wonder
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    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “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.”
    ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
    tags: adventure, adventures, adventures-in-love, catholic-author, discovery, experiences, first-love, life, life-changing, life-experience, life-lesson, love, romance, romantic, self-discovery, true-love
    475 likes

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    Ansel Adams
    “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: adventure, experience, exploration, life, wisdom
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    Mary Downing Hahn
    “You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”
    ― Mary Downing Hahn, The Dead Man in Indian Creek
    tags: adventure, mystery
    140 likes

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    Lloyd Alexander
    “Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
    ― Lloyd Alexander
    tags: adventure, reading
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    Trenton Lee Stewart
    “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.”
    ― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey
    tags: adventure, friendship, teamwork
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    Barry Finlay
    “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
    ― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond
    tags: adventure, africa, clean-water, climbing, education, inspirational, kilimanjaro, mountains
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  • #10
    CrimethInc.
    “I always secretly looked forward to nothing going as planned. That way, I wasn't limited by my imagination. That way, anything can, and always did, happen.”
    ― Nigel Davis
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    Priya Ardis
    “Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.
    He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
    ― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
    tags: action, adventure, arthurian, arthurian-collection, camelot, coming-of-age, fairy-tales, fantasy, fiction, greek-mythology, history, love, magic, merlin, mermaid, mythology, novel, paranormal, paranormal-romance, poseidon, retellings, romance, sea-creatures, sword, sword-and-sorcery, teen, time-travel, urban-fantasy, wizards, women-s-fiction, ya, ya-fantasy, ya-paranormal, ya-romance, young-adult
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    Beryl Markham
    “There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, and before a rainstorm, and these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous and gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.”
    ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night
    tags: adventure, africa, pilot, stories, women
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    Robert Macfarlane
    “Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
    ― Robert Macfarlane, Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
    tags: adventure, arrogance, humility, inspirational, mountaineering, mountains, oblivion
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    “Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”
    ― Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter
    tags: adventure, belonging, home, travel
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    T.K. Thorne
    “Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury”
    ― T.K. Thorne
    tags: adventure, aspergers, autism, historical-fiction
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    Jojo Moyes
    “Don’t you think it’s actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you’ve done all that stuff?’
    ‘Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?’
    ‘I’m just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you’d led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.’
    ‘I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you’re stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.’ He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. ‘So if you’re asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks.”
    ― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
    tags: adventure, paralysed, quadriplegic, regret, regrets
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