#adventure

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home, like all the men who now live with mermaids at the bottom of the sea. Or the people who found Atlantis. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#courage #feminism #courage

It takes an enormous amount of work to complete a novel, and each of the students who completed the course has accomplished something many people only dream about. ↗

— Daniel Schwabauer

#dreams

Marco reported that homeless children [in Kublai Kahn's city of Daidu] were cared for and educated. While he says little about the system of education in China, we know from records of the time that Kublai Khan created thousands of public schools to provide a basic education for all children, including those of poor peasants. Until then, only the wealthy were literate. Kublai's bid at 'universal education' had never been attempted by any country on Earth. In the western world, nearly 500 years would pass before governments began to take responsibility for the public education of all children. ↗

— Russell Freedman

#education

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspiration #life-experience #experience

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#endurance #expedition #food #hunger #experience

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand? ↗

— Richard Aldington

#experience #exploration #spontaneity #travel #wanderlust

He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes

Small Acts of Kindness are Priceless ↗

— M.G. Wells

#family #fantasy #friendship #magic #middle-grade

I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver younger siblings, who resemble her so closely. The slight builds, the luminous brown eyes. They form a flock of small dark birds. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#birds #grief #family

It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it. ↗

— James Agee

#bring #fair play #good #hook #know