#venture

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#adventure #artist #every #expression #his

Only a few days earlier he had explained to her that he did not merely read books but traveled with them, that they took him to other countries and unfamiliar continents, and that with their help he was always getting to know new people, many of whom even became his friends. ↗

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

#books #reading #travels #art

Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often. ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#adventure #mystery #suspense #travel #art

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired. ↗

— Teresa Flavin

#art #history #mystery #young-adult #art

You are so beautiful! Those eyes are like green flames warming my soul! If only I could gaze into them forever!" Lieutenant Commander Chester Jones, THE BEST LAID PLANS ↗

— James McAllister

#scifi-adventure #starclan #beauty

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#change #learning #travel #change

Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I'm just a chick who's scared of commitment and on the run, who's weird for ignoring Glamour magazine's predictions of my eggs drying up? Learning is an underrated form of liberation. ↗

— Holly Morris

#feminism #travel #change

Adventure should be part of everyone's life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing. ↗

— Holly Morris

#pal-bachendri #travel #change

If there's one thing the divas have shown it is that to indulge your passions fully is to know yourself completely. Only then can you treat the rest of the world--its people, its ecosystems, its politics-- with provocative wit and compassion. ↗

— Holly Morris

#change

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