Some of my favorite quotes:
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
--Mark Twain
Earth and sky, woods and fields,
lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea,
are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us
more than we can never learn from books.
--John Lubbock
One of the most tragic things
I know about human nature
is that all of us tend to put off living.
We are all dreaming of some
magical rose garden over the horizon
instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming
outside our windows today.
--Dale Carnegie
The test of an adventure is that
when you're in the middle of it,
you say to yourself,
"Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess
I wish I were sitting quietly at home."
And the sign that something's wrong with you
is when you sit quietly at home
wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
--Thornton
You will find something
more in woods than in books.
Trees and stones will teach you
that which you can never learn from masters.
--St. Bernard
A ship is safe in harbor,
but thats not what ships are built for. "
--John A. Shedd
Life is a fatal adventure.
It can only have one end.
So why not make it as far-ranging
and free as possible.
--Alexander Eliot
The world is a book
and those who do not travel
read only one page.
--St. Augustine
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony
which once existed between man and the universe.
--Anatole France