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20 Inspiring Adventure Quotes and Quotes About Life

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

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

Top 20 Things You Can Learn from Oprah

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1. What you put out comes back all the time, no matter what. (This is my creed.)

2. You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

3. Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

4. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. (A lesson from Maya Angelou.)

5. Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.

6. What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

7. If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, that will be enough. (From the German theologian and humanist Meister Eckhart.)

8. The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

9. Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction.

oprah winfrey quotes10. If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.

11. Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.

12. Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter.

13. Let passion drive your profession.

14. Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.

15. Love doesn’t hurt. It feels really good.

16. Every day brings a chance to start over.

17. Being a mother is the hardest job on earth. Women everywhere must declare it so.

18. Doubt means don’t. Don’t move. Don’t answer. Don’t rush forward.

19. When you don’t know what to do, get still. The answer will come.

20. “Trouble don’t last always.” (A line from a Negro spiritual, which calls to mind another favorite: This, too, shall pass.)

Inspiring Adventure and Life Quotes

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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

inspiring adventure and life quotes8. “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

Joy Quotes

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– “When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.” – Marianne Williamson

– “Remember to light the candle of joy daily and all the gloom will disappear from your life.” – Djwhal Khul

– “You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.” – Buffy Sainte-Marie

– “Joy is untouched by circumstance.” – Unknown

– “In thy presence is fullness of joy.” – Psalms 16:11

– “Joy is the echo of God’s life in us.” – Abbot Coumba Marmion

– “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Guatama Buddha

– “What I know for sure is that you feel real JOY in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.” – Oprah

– “Joy springs from within; no one makes you joyous; you choose joyfulness.” – Unknown

– “Thou has made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.” – Acts 2:28

– “True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” – Paul Pearsall

– “Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I’m doing.” – Phil Jackson

– “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

– “Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace – a connection to what matters.” – Oprah

– “Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him.” – Sathya Sai Baba

– “Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

– “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” – Richard Wagner

– “Joy is the highest expression of love.” – Abraham-Hicks

– “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” – Mother Teresa

– “Shared joy is double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.” – Swedish proverb