“Put On Your Big Boots / An Adventure is Going to Happen”
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.”
“I don’t much care where –”
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.” (Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
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“I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.
Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time … and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.
You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.” (Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild)
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“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” (Helen Keller)
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“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.” (Rumi)
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“When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” (A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh)
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