"Photography is a love affair with life." —Burk Uzzle

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”—Marianne Moore

“There is no first, or last in Forever – It is Centre, there, all the time.” —Emily Dickinson

“The joy that isn’t shared dies young.”—Anne Sexton

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”–G.K. Chesterton

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”—Anne Sexton

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.” —Sylvia Plath

"What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something you’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.” –Gina Greenlee

"The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”–Christopher McCandless

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”–Paulo Coelho

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is no secret that the greatest treasures are found in the most remote, inaccessible and difficult places where we must pursue them with great energy and even greater risk. It’s the same with our lives.”–Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Treat all of life like a near-death experience. That’s what it is.” –Donald Miller

"Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.”–Criss Jami

“Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.” –Tamera Alexander