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20 Inspiring Adventure Quotes and Quotes About Life

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

Valentine’s Day Quotes

I’ve selected for you some great quotes for Valentine’s Day. Hope you enjoy them!

love

Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile – Franklin P. Jones

deep love

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzu

first time love

The first time you fall in love it changes your life forever and no matter how hard you try, the feeling never goes away.

valentines day love quote

There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

cute love quote

Love: a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.

happy valentine day

It’s not what you have done for me that makes me love you so much. It is the joys of who you are, and the happiness you bring.

valentines day

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence. – Vincent van Gogh

Inspiring Adventure and Life Quotes

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

Life Quotes by Famous People

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” – George Washington Carver

“May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.” – Richard L. Evans

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy

“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.” – Winston Churchill

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” – Dag Hammarskjold

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey

” Fate, is an excuse for why we end up where we do! Our ‘Actions’ predetermine our Destiny, our ‘Reactions’ seal that fate!” – Carl Stoynoff

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

life quotes by famous people“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” – Sydney J. Harris

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” –Kahlil Gibran

“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” – Vincent van Gogh

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy

“It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz

“Life has got to be lived — that’s all there is to it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” – Raymond Charles Barker

“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne

Saturday’s Love Quotes

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. ~ Janos Arany

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. ~ Dr. Seuss

With love and patience, nothing is impossible. ~ Daisaku Ikeda

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you ~ Ben Folds

love quotesI think its nice when people find love, because I feel like everyone deserves it. ~ Drew Barrymore

Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence ~ Vincent Van Gogh

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Everything is clearer when you’re in love. ~ John Lennon

Best Love Quotes

”Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy. ” Audre Lorde

”It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

”True love stories never have endings. ” Richard Bach

”In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. ” Erich Fromm

”In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable. ” Madame de Stael

”Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm

”Love is the whole history of a woman’s life, it is but an episode in a man’s. ” Madame de Stael

”If you want to be loved, be lovable. ” Ovid

”Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ” C. S. Lewis

”Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. ” William Arthur Ward

”If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ” Michel de Montaigne

”A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. ” Boethius

”Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. ” Maya Angelou

”If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. ” A. A. Milne

”A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ” Stendhal

”Love is a better teacher than duty. ” Albert Einstein

”If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ” Emmet Fox

”If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. ” Maya Angelou

”I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. ” George Eliot

”Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. ” Ella Fitzgerald

”I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. ” Daphne Rae

”What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow. ” Nathaniel Hawthorne

”I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. ” Judy Garland

”A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. ” Honore de Balzac

”A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. ” Marilyn Monroe

”How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. ” Barbara Pym

”All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. ” Andre Breton

”Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ” Peter Ustinov

”Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. ” Albert Einstein

”If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal. ” John Lennon

”Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never. ” Charles Caleb Colton

”Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. ” Rita Rudner

”One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. ” Sophocles

”For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ” Judy Garland

”Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. ” Martin Luther King, Jr.

”First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. ” George Bernard Shaw

”A life lived in love will never be dull. ” Leo Buscaglia

”Do all things with love. ” Og Mandino

”The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. ” Vincent van Gogh

”Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. ” Samuel Lover

”Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ” Rumi

”Can miles truly separate you from friends? If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? ” Richard Bach

”At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ” Plato

”Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. ” C. S. Lewis

”A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. ” Thomas Carlyle

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Belive in Yourself Quotes

There is nothing more beautiful than believing in yourself. – Sam Kao

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. – Sally Field

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven. – William Shakespeare

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible. – Jennifer Capriati

Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself. – Lady Gaga

To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will. – Sugar Ray Robinson

Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do. – Martina Navratilova

If you don’t ask because you might be refused, you’ve already refused yourself. – Nisandeh Neta

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them. – Michael Jordan

Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching. and live like it’s heaven on earth. – Mark Twain

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. – Adele Brookman

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. – Henry James

Fear kills everything. Your mind, your heart, your imagination. – Cornelia Funke

You’re only a victim when you allow yourself to be one. – Primadonna Angela

The mind should dance with the body, and the whole universe is your stage. Try to feel that whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing, the prettiest dance, because you are dancing with the whole Universe. – Yogi Bhajan

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. – Jean Sibelius

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.  – Irisa Hail

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down. – Allen H. Neuharth

Knock the “t” off the “can’t.” – George Reeves

Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. – Dan Zadra

Men harm others by their deeds, themselves by their thoughts. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. – Truman Capote

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. – William Shakespeare

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. – Henry David Thoreau

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. – John Powell

Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be. – Karen Ravn

Never dull your shine for somebody else. – Tyra Banks

Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. “Dr. Holmes,” quipped a friend, “I should think you’d feel rather small among us big fellows.” “I do,” retorted Holmes, “I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies.” – Author Unknown

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Alva Edison

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence. – Paula Cole

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. – Lauren Bacall

Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. – Author Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. – Edmund Hillary

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. – Buckminster Fuller

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. – Author Unknown

Night Quotes

– “God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.” – David Nicholas

– “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.” – Edna St. Vincent Millay

– “Dreams permit each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” – William Dement

– “Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

– “A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life.” – Ana Alas

– “Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.” – Catherine O’Hara

– “There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.” – N.P. Willis

– “I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent Van Gogh

– “The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.” – Frederick L. Knowles

– “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.” – George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

– “Most glorious night!
Thou wert not sent for slumber!” – Lord Byron, Childe Harold

– “Night is a world lit by itself.” – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

– “Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

– “By night, an atheist half believes in God.” – Edward Young, Night Thoughts

– “O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray!
Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.” – George Eliot, The Spanish Gypsy

– “Moonlight is sculpture.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

– “Research is the name given the crystal formed when the night’s worry is added to the day’s sweat.” – Martin H. Fischer

– “Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery

– “Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline

– “What I take from my nights, I add to my days.” – Leon de Rotrou, Vencelas

– “Mine is the night, with all her stars.” – Edward Young