"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."
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via leritas)
I tend to think the meaning of this quote can be applied on multiple scales. Some inferences on the meaning may extend to large changes in lifestyle; however, small changes in daily routines (i.e having breakfast for dinner, teaching yourself a dance routine just for fun (for us, the Charleston) can create that same adventurous perspective on life.
"In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to."
Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
Stephen Jay Gould (via biocentricvegan)
(Source: peapodkid)
"There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never."
Ryan Adams (via thepinesaredancing)
(Source: seventyfourspecies)
"All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life - where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it."
Miranda July (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: larmoyante)
"And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, ‘Oh, there you are. I’ve been looking for you’."
Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via natashakills)
(Source: reindrops)
"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."
John Pierpont (via theladyadventurer)
(Source: phoolmune)
"I do believe in an everyday sort of magic — the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we’re alone."
― Charles de Lint (via thefieldjournal)
(Source: papercottonink)
