When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

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The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Khaled Hosseini

Airplane Bed I Can Long

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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Frederick Buechner

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime

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Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Frederick Buechner

Vocation Deep Gladness

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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

God Place Deep Gladness

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The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

Able Adventure Big Big Question

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What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Anyone Anyone Else Been Could

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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Isabel Allende

Memoir Version Perspective Omit

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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Isabel Allende

Story Haunt Writing Themes

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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

Isabel Allende

Uneventful Safe life Prefer Adventurous

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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

Man Performs Engenders Bear

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Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

William Faulkner

Read Classics Bad

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty

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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

Jackie Chan

Everywhere Feel Film Get

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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Affection City Enjoy Feel

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I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Nina Simone

Strange Italy Five hour Africa

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I don't like to go to strange places.

Nina Simone

Like Strange Places

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I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Jackie Collins

Bahamas Family Lovely Quite

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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

H. P. Lovecraft

Abyss Black Delving Fascination

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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

Adventures Ashes Be True Dust

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Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Unoccupied Village Opposition Military

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There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

Demetri Martin

Comfortable Gets Less Like

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When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

Demetri Martin

Always Because California Kid

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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great IRemember Like More

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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

Gary Player

Any Being Ever Human

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My mom loved fashion. We loved to travel and go to Italy and Paris.

Melania Trump

Fashion Go Italy Loved

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Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Gary Snyder

Walking Adventure Medication Practice

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We are so quick to find flaws with those who try. Succeed or fail, those who try will be far wiser, braver, stronger, and more ready to try again than the passive skeptic.

John Cena

Flaws Succeed Fail Wiser

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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Bear Grylls

Adventure Comfort Zone Good

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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Ian Fleming

Adventures Always Dull Lead

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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Idris Elba

Beach Going Jamaica Now

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To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Bear Grylls

Adventure Always Anywhere Been

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I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

Bear Grylls

Always Dogs Fast Fit

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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Camille Paglia

Because Getting Girl Issue

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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Ira Glass

Analysis Deeply Dreams Find

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The journey is not a dash but a marathon. Your enduring capacity and ability to persist are important to be successful.

Oba Otudeko

Journey Dash Marathon Persist

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The world is a scary place. Even my mother has suggested I take a self defense class.

Iliza Shlesinger

World Scary Mother Suggested

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I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

Virgil van Dijk

Death Experience Eye Looked

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I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

Carrie Underwood

Anywhere Been Computer Enough

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It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Cate Blanchett

Back Experiences Feed Got

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â€œOften one goes for one thing and finds anotherâ€

Neem Karoli Baba

Often One goes Thing Find

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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.

Utah Phillips

Any Freight Go Looking

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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Edmund Hillary

Adventuring Ordinary Person Qualities

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Ingmar Bergman

Anywhere Go Hate Travel

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If I'm traveling, I'll pack socks in my bag - really cute furry ones.

Nicki Minaj

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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Neil Armstrong

Because Being Challenges Deep

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All of life is a foreign country.

Jack Kerouac

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My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

Jack Kevorkian

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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

Jack Nicholson

Bad Been Like Many

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It's in my blood to tour. It's in my blood to get on the road. It's in my blood to go onstage.

Pauly Shore

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"140 Adventure Quotes

When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

Khaled Hosseini

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Frederick Buechner

Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Frederick Buechner

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

Joseph Campbell

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Isabel Allende

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window

William Faulkner

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adam Smith

I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.

Jackie Chan

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nina Simone

I don't like to go to strange places.

Nina Simone

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Jackie Collins

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

H. P. Lovecraft

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

Norman Schwarzkopf

There's a store in my neighborhood called Futon World. I like that name, 'Futon World.' Makes me think of a magical place that gets less and less comfortable over time.

Demetri Martin

When I was a kid, I always wanted to live in California because I liked skateboarding.

Demetri Martin

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

Gary Player

My mom loved fashion. We loved to travel and go to Italy and Paris.

Melania Trump

Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.

Gary Snyder

We are so quick to find flaws with those who try. Succeed or fail, those who try will be far wiser, braver, stronger, and more ready to try again than the passive skeptic.

John Cena

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Bear Grylls

Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.

Ian Fleming

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Idris Elba

To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

Bear Grylls

I think it's fun running with dogs. They're always so fit and fast.

Bear Grylls

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Camille Paglia

Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.

Ira Glass

The journey is not a dash but a marathon. Your enduring capacity and ability to persist are important to be successful.

Oba Otudeko

Iliza Shlesinger

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

Virgil van Dijk

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

Carrie Underwood

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

â€œOften one goes for one thing and finds anotherâ€