"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

mary oliver

"You know all those things you've always wanted to do? You should go do them."

ej lamprey

"It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free."

mae chevrette

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."

paulo coelho

"We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us."

charles bukowski

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

mae west

"Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund."

anthony bourdain

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"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."

jack kerouac

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

hunter s. thompson

"The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost."

henry david throeau

"Most of the really exciting things we do in our lives scare us to death. They wouldn’t be exciting if they didn't."

roald dahl