63 phrases of adventure to undertake new experiences

Several reflections and aphorisms about the feeling of starting exciting projects.

Here you will find several of the most important phrases of adventure that throughout the centuries have been written or pronounced by important historical figures such as Vincent van Gogh, Nelson Mandela or Jean Paul Sartre.

63 phrases of adventure

We have prepared this collection of phrases that will help you take the first step to embark on a new experience.

1. Life is a great adventure or nothing (Helen Keller).

And we must be prepared to embark on it.

2. Dying will be a great adventure (Aristotle)

This adventure phrase by Aristotle tells us about death as if it were a mysterious journey.

3. Every work of an artist has to be the expression of an adventure of his art (William Sumerset Maughman).

A representation of all the aspects where art has been explored.

4. I am not an adventurer by choice, but by destiny (Vincent van Gogh)

For van Gogh, destiny throws us into an adventure we cannot avoid.

5. Adventures are for adventurers (Benjamin Disraeli)

One must have the character it takes to launch oneself into such an action.

6. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have, if only we seek them with our eyes open. (Jawaharlal Nehru)

We must also listen to to those cravings for strong emotions that our bodies often ask for.

7. All adventures, especially in a new territory, are scary (Sally Ride)

We should not let ourselves be overcome by this fear. Conquering ourselves is a great adventure.

8. When you're safe at home you wish you were having an affair, and when you're having an affair you wish you were safe at home. (Thornton Wilder)

When the doldrums come it doesn't matter which side we're on, we have to be more creative to turn it around.

9. An inconvenience is an ill-considered adventure.

It is only something that was not well planned.

10. Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure (Alfred North Whitehead)

Because we allow ourselves to risk and flow.

11. I decided that adventure was the best way to learn how to write (Lloyd Alexander)

Because we create stories and situations.

12. Adventure is not outside of man but within (David Grayson)

That journey we take into ourselves involves all kinds of adventures.

13. Adventure: the pursuit of life. (Daniel Roy Wiarda)

We step out of our comfort zone to taste what is happening in this world.

14. Get lost in the world and find yourself (Nelson Mochilero)

This type of path is highly recommended to get to know yourself a little better.

15. He who does not travel does not know the value of men (Arabian Proverb)

...since we are exposed to the diversity that inhabits this world.

16. You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough (Mae West).

Life is about venturing to live it intensely.

17. It always seems impossible... until it's done (Nelson Mandela)

Venturing into the impossible makes our most impossible dreams come true.

18. People travel to distant destinations to observe, fascinated, the kind of people they ignore when they are at home (Dagobert D. Runes).

This adventurous phrase invites us to appreciate the things that are close to us.

19. Once you have traveled, the journey never ends, but is recreated over and over again from showcases of memories. The mind can never let go of the journey (Pat Conroy).

We can never let go of what we have experienced along the way.

20. Not all who wander are lost (J. R. R. R. Tolkien)

Some are in search of adventures that nourish their existence.

21. Travel is an exercise with fatal consequences for prejudice, intolerance and narrow-mindedness. (Mark Twain)

If you believe that it is necessary not to lose these qualities then nothing better than the security of your home.

22. The world is a book and those who do not travel only read a page (St. Augustine).

This adventurous phrase invites us to broaden our perspectives.

23. Travel is only glamorous when viewed in retrospect (Paul Theroux).

It is something we should venture to do sometime in our lifetime..

24. If you feel lost in the world, it's because you haven't gone out to look for yourself (Nelson Mochilero)

This adventurous phrase encourages us to pack our backpacks and go in search of new perspectives.

25. The great pleasure in life is to do what people say you can't (Walter Bagehot).

To venture into unknown terrain in order to conquer it.

26. There are no foreign lands. He who travels is the only foreigner (Robert Louis Stevenson).

So during that journey we must know how to adapt ourselves to each place.

27. The poignancy or irony of leaving youth behind is implicit in each of the joyful moments of traveling: one knows that the first joy will never be regained, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat his successes but to go after new places all the time (Paul Fussell).

About reinventing oneself and charting new paths.

28. Travel serves to adjust the imagination to reality, and to see things as they are instead of thinking how they will be" (Samuel Johnson).

This adventurous phrase helps us to understand our surroundings and to comprehend them.

29. Our battered suitcases were piled up on the sidewalk again; we had a long way to go. But no matter, the road is life (Jack Kerouac)

Slowly but surely, life is a long adventure.

30. The beautiful experiences of life happen nowhere else but in your brain (Nelson Mochiler).

When we plan them, we imagine them, and we go into spaces we never get to see.

If you reject food, ignore clothing, fear religion and avoid people, perhaps you'd better stay home (James Michener).

To go out and travel the world we have to be prepared for the unknown.

32. Travel is like marriage. The sure way to be wrong is to think that we are in control (John Steinbeck).

There is nothing like being carried away by the adventure of seeking the unknown.

33. All travel has its advantages. If the traveler visits countries that are in better condition, he can learn how to improve his own. And if fortune takes him to worse places, he may learn to enjoy what he has at home (Samuel Johnson).

On how one adventure can change the way you understand the world and to value your home.

34. A traveler without the ability to observe is like a bird without wings (Moslih Eddin Saadi)

A reflection on the best tool that every person should have ready to embark on any adventure.

35. When we come out of the entrapment of our own ego and when we escape like squirrels from the cage that is our personality to return again to the forest, we will tremble with cold and fear. Then things will happen to us that will make us not know who we are. Life, fresh and revealing, will enter us (D. H. Laurence).

This phrase by Lawrence, perfectly details the evolution of a person when he decides to undertake an adventure.

36. Waking up alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasurable sensations in the world (Freya Stark).

A highly inadvisable but all too appealing activity.

37. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed in the things you didn't do than in the things you did do. So untie your moorings and sail away from familiar ports. Take advantage of the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover (Mark Twain)

In this phrase Mark Twain encourages us to start that adventure we have been longing for.

38. Turn off the autopilot of your life and rescue yourself (Nelson Mochilero)

Give yourself the opportunity to go in search of new experiences and to live your days differently.

39. The object of travel is not only to see strange lands, but ultimately to come back and see one's own country with estrangement (G. K. Chesterton).

This adventure phrase talks about the psychological effect of living one.

40. When you travel, remember that foreign countries are not designed to make you feel comfortable. They are designed to make their own people comfortable (Clifton Fadiman).

So we must adapt to them and not in the process perhaps incorporate something of them.

41. All journeys have secret destinations about which the traveler knows nothing (Martin Buber).

Therein lies the motivation to go out and seek adventure.

42. We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no limit to the adventures we can have as long as we seek them with our eyes wide open (Jawaharial Nehru).

It is important to be surprised but it is also important to know by which experience we are going to let ourselves be enveloped.

43. Let the world surprise you (Nelson Mochilero)

With every detail and particularity, a new story appears.

44. Travel is more than seeing what there is to see; it is to initiate a change in our ideas about what it is to live that continues in us in a profound and permanent way (Miriam Beard).

An adventure is like a revolution.

45. Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going (Paul Theroux).

About the mystery that haunts you when your adventure has no definite route even though the way is planned.

46. The way I see it, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is, every day, to be able to experience things as if for the first time, to be in a position where almost nothing is so familiar to us that we take it for granted." (Bill Bryson)

This adventurous phrase gives us a perspective far removed from any mold of the world.

47. The important thing in life is that you know where you are and where you want to go. Everything else is to follow the path between the two points (Nelson Mochilero).

To trace a route, to have a goal that serves as motivation.

48. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step (Lao Tzu).

It only remains to make the decision to take it.

49. Do not go where the road takes you. Go where there is none and leave a trail (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

May the adventure you have begun be a momentous one.

50. There is no moment of greater joy in any pilgrimage than the beginning of it (Charles Dudley Warner).

That which will lead you to an evolution.

51. It is the journey and not the arrival that matters (T. S. Eliot)

It is the process that catches us, and it is for this reason that we tend to postpone it with photographs.

52. Travel may not be enough to prevent intolerance, but if it can show us that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends (Maya Angelou).

This phrase sums up the importance of going out and venturing on a journey that will change our perception of the world.

53. Wandering re-establishes the original harmony that once existed between man and the Universe.

Anatole France recognizes this quality as something inherent to human beings and their relationship with their surroundings.

54. What you have done becomes the yardstick by which you judge yourself on what you will do, especially from the perspective of others. On the other hand, when you travel you are what you are at that moment. People don't know your past enough to make a claim on you. There is no "yesterday" when you are on the road (William Least Heat Moon).

This phrase brings us closer to the idea of what we are when we are on an adventure. It only matters what we are in the here and now.

55. I quickly realized that there are no journeys that will take us far unless we travel the same distance in our inner world as we do on the outside (Lillian Smith).

This reflection speaks about the adventure of entering into our own essence.

56. To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries (Aldous Huxley).

It makes you more tolerant and understanding of different cultures.

57. Traveling accomplishes the same thing that good novelists manage to do with everyday life when they frame it as if it were a photo in a picture frame or a gem in a ring, so that the intrinsic qualities of things become clearer. Traveling manages to do that with the stuff our everyday life is made of, giving it the sharp contours and meanings of art (Freya Stark).

58. Adventure is a path. Real, self-determined, self-motivated and often risky adventure forces you to have flesh-and-blood encounters with the world. The world as it is, not as you imagine it. Your body is going to collide with the earth and you will witness it. In this way you will be forced to deal with the boundless goodness and the unfathomable cruelty of humanity - and perhaps you will realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever be black and white again (Mark Jenkins).

This adventure phrase brings us closer to an idea of adventure that transforms your life.

59. There is no barrier, no lock, no bolt that you can impose on the freedom of my mind (Virginia Woolf)

In our imagination we can create the best adventure we could ever conceive.

60. Happiness is not doing what one wants but wanting what one does (Jean Paul Sartre).

To love and live the path one has taken.

61. He who lives in fear will never be free (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).

By freeing your fears you can undertake one of the most important adventures: to truly live.

62. If you are looking for different results, do not always do the same thing (Albert Einstein).

It is necessary to venture to do something different.

63. Happiness is only real when it is shared (Alexander Supertramp).

...and this can be during an adventure to some unknown place.