1. Look: if you had one shot -one opportunity- to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it, or just let it slip?

3. To a man with imagination, a map is a window to adventure – Francis Chichester

4. Take your life in your own hands and see what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame - Erica Jong

5. Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days - Bruce Springsteen

6. What we do in life, echoes in eternity - Gladiator

8. If you think you can’t, you’re right. If you think you can, you’re right - Ken Hatton

9. If you’re gonna be dumb, you’d better be tough – MTV ‘Jackass’ song

10. That’s the Test of all tests! Hell, count me in! – Young Guns

12. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting: “Holy Cow.. What a ride!”

13. It’s not about the bike. It’s a metaphor for life… – Lance Armstrong

14. the Journey is the reward - Lao Tze

15. © It is better to live one year as a tiger than one hundred years as a sheep - Buddhist saying

16. The longest journey starts with a single step – Lao Tze

17. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live – Albus Dumbledore

18. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time - Fight Club

19. Our greatest battles are with our own mind - James Frank

20. It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop - Confucius

21. The next time your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you have something worth watching

22. A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving - Lao Tse

23. It doesn’t have to be fun to be fun

24. The world is round, and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning - Ivy Baker Priest

25. Exploration is the physical expression of the intellectual passion - Apsley Cherry Garrard

26. Decide what you want written on your gravestone. Now go out and make it happen.

27. The essential in daring is to know how far too far one can go – Jean Cocteau

28. Life is too short for second class ambitions – Sir Ranulph Fiennes

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31. Look: if you had one shot -one opportunity- to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it, or just let it slip?