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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

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

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like.

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.

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.

Education is the great American adventure, the world’s most colossal democratic experiment.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

I have enough friends who are gamers. I actually enjoy watching them play because of the visuals and the storytelling of the games. I just love being able to go on an adventure and games are just so sophisticated now that you can just get lost in a world for 20 hours and just be someone else in a very visceral, emotional way. And that’s just fascinating.

Life’s greatest adventure is in doing one’s level best.

it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I’m not going anywhere. I hope. It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It’s a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there – eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet’s epiphanies.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Sometimes, I get ideas from dreams. Often, my stories are based on adventures that I, or my friends, have actually lived.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.