If you tiptoe into cold water, you’re missing out on the rush of plunging in headfirst. – Simone Elkeles

Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure. – Maya Angelou

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. ― George Santayana

The future opens up before you like a new book, waiting for you to commit to it’s pages the story only you can write.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary – Cecil Beaton

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We’re afraid.” “Come to the edge.” “We can’t. We will fall!” “Come to the edge.” And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. – Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918 (French Poet, Philosopher)

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – William Shedd

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing. Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms. Strong and content I travel the open road. – Walt Whitman

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

The Forest Service is truly an extraordinary institution. A lot of people, seeing that word forest in the title, assume it has something to do with looking after trees. These were not intended to be parks. Private companies would be granted leases to extract minerals and harvest timber, but they would be required to do so in [...]