Hortense Odlum Quotes

I've done a lot of living and a lot of adventuring and I think that's very healthy, ya know. And I think everybody should adventure life 'cos that's what life is, it's for adventuring. You gotta know what you wanna do with your life. And you gotta know when you have something special and you don't wanna blow it.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

I rode 300 miles through the forest and ate all sorts of strange food. And every time 'Torak' did something new, like swimming with killer whales or kayaking, I thought I'd better go and do it.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

Why get up in the morning unless you’re going to have an adventure?

Reality has no security and that is its beauty. Life has no security and that is its beauty. Because there is no security, there is adventure. Because the future is unknown, nobody knows what is going to happen the next moment. That's why there is challenge, growth, adventure. If you miss adventure, you miss all. If your life is not that of an adventure, of a search into the unknown, then you are living in vain.

I'd rather die on an adventure than live standing still.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

Where's your sense of adventure?" "Off on a beach somewhere with your sanity?

My choice of a life of adventure may well have been a result of the fact that action raised my blood pressure giving me enough energy to live.