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Inspiring Adventure and Life Quotes

Posted on September 18, 2011 by

1. “Before you try and change the world, let the world change you.” –Semester at Sea Saying

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” –Helen Keller

3. “The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…” –Bear Grylls

4. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”-Dr. Seuss

5. “Everything I’m not make me everything I am.” –Kanye West

6. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”-James Dean

7. “In life, anything worth taking seriously is worth poking fun at.” –Author Unknown

8. “A man’s actions are a direct testament of his thoughts (live adventurously).”-Author Unknown

9. “However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.”-Henry David Thoreau

10. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”-Barack Obama

11. “Put a ding in the universe.” –Steve Jobs

12. “Yeah, I’m a thrill seeker, but crikey, education’s the most important thing.” –Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter

13. “I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.”-Oprah

14. “I just love that spirit that makes people do things that they probably shouldn’t.” –Johnny Knoxville

15. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” –Dr. Seuss

16. “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” –Dr. Seuss

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

18. “All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.”-Sally Ride

19. “We love because it’s the only true adventure.” –Nikki Giovanni

20. “I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.”-Vincent Van Gogh

21. ”You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.” –Lady Gaga

22. “Nothing is really ‘safe’.” –Bam Margera

23. “One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather

24. “Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.”-Alan Sachs

25. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” –Mark Twain

Famous Women Quotes

Posted on January 2, 2011January 2, 2011 by

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. – Eleanor Roosevelt

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. – Martha Washington

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. – Helen Keller

It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. – Marlene Dietrich

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. – Oprah Winfrey

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. – Helen Keller

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. – Mother Teresa

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. – Oprah Winfrey

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. – Helen Keller

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. – Mother Teresa

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt