Wendell Berry Quotes

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.

Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.

I crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It's a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren't in your hands.

A new challenge, to me, is really exciting.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

My passion is always the same. In fact, with a new adventure, the passion always grows.

I am the opposite of boring, but I'm a little reckless, and I'm not against taking risks, and I think I'm always down for an adventure.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

My advice is to go for the messes - that's where the action is.

Curiosity is the other side of caution.

Hosting the Emmys is a challenge for me. I guess it's the equivalent of someone who needs to climb a mountain or jump out of a plane. It's that kind of thing, where this could go terribly wrong. And I love the feeling of when it goes right.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.

Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

There is no security in following the call to adventure.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.