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30 Inspiring, Adventure and Life Quotes

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

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

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

4. “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

5. “Security is mostly a superstition.”-Helen Keller

6. “The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” –W.M. Lewis

7. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”-George Eliot

8. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” –Audrey Hepburn

9. “Keep trying. Stay humble, Trust your instincts. Most importantly, act. When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”-Yogi Berra

10. “When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you’re writing about at the time. “-Lady Gaga

11. “The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.”-Joseph Campell

12. “…adventures don’t come calling like unexpected cousins calling from out of town. You have to go looking for them.” –Unknown Author

13. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.” –Michael Jackson

14. “If at first you don’t succeed so much for skydiving.” –Ninja Turtles

15. “If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.“-Samuel L. Jackson

16. “Embrace yourself for who you are…and then go jump off a cliff in a squirrel suit.”-Author Unknown

17. “What happens in Vegas, I’m telling everyone.” –Dane Cook

18. “You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don’t have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you’ll stop at the first giant hurdle.”-George Lucas

19. “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”-Samuel Beckett

20. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.”-Pearl S. Buck

21. “Don’t react. Live.” –Author Unknown

22. “Fortes fortuna adiuvat. (Fortune favors the brave).”-Author Unknown

23. “In the wake of yawning decadence, fearless Thou shalt be!” – Anonymous Poem

24. “People are creating the future, right now. What are you doing?”-Warren Kimmel

25. “The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.” –Author Unknown

26. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

27. “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”-T.S. Elliot

28. “My life is my message.”-Ghandi

29. “Make your life a mission – not an intermission.” –Author Unknown

30. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.” – Deepak Chopra

Creativity & Life Quotes

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Luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Adam Lyons

Any intelligent fool can make things better, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. – Albert Einstein

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan. – Unknown

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. – Woody Allen

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift. That’s why this moment is called the present. Enjoy it. – Allan Johnson

If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. – African proverb

Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something. – Jim Rohn

The man is the head [of the family], but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants. – My Big Fat Greek Wedding

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. – William Shakespeare

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. – Anonymous

creativity and life quotesMinds are like parachutes — they only function when open. – Thomas Dewar

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. – Albert Einstein

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. – Chinese proverb

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. – Plato

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

When faced with two choices simply toss a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for. – Unknown

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn’t have fallen for the second. – Johnny Depp

In the pursuit of knowledge, something is added every day. In the pursuit of enlightenment, something is dropped every day. – Laozi

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. – Unknown

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. – Sarah Williams

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. – Laozi

Soltitude Quotes

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– “All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.” – Han Suyin

– “Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.” – Thomas Browne

– “Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.” – Alice Koller

– “Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life’s greatest tests alone.” – Agnes Macphail

– “Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. … When you face your aloneness, something begins to happen. Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging. This is a slow and open-ended transition but it is utterly vital in order to come into rhythm with your own individuality.” – John O’Donohue

– “I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It’s the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.” – Peter Hoeg

– “I learned…that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.” – Brenda Ueland

– “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein

– “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” – Henry David Thoreau

– “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.” – Pearl S. Buck

– “Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.” – Jeanne Marie Laskas

– “It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking . . . in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.” – Franz Kafka

– “It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.” – Max Nordau

– “Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone, and the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.” – Paul Johannes Tillich

– “Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.” – Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

– “Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.” – Indra Devi