B. C. Forbes Quotes

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

Life will be interesting only when there is an element of surprise in it.

Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.

I want to do lots of exciting, varied, interesting things. That's what I want to do.

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.