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  • #1
    “Make everything an adventure. Otherwise, it will suck.”
    Nita Morgan

  • #2
    Richard Russo
    “What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.”
    Richard Russo

  • #3
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “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

  • #4
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #5
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #6
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #7
    Edith Södergran
    “The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
    Edith Södergran

  • #9
    Sylvia Plath
    “How we need another soul to cling to.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Bill Watterson
    “We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”
    Bill Watterson

  • #12
    Walt Whitman
    “Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #13
    Maya Angelou
    “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #15
    E.M. Forster
    “Adventures do occur, but not punctually.”
    E.M. Forster, A Passage to India

  • #16
    Barry Finlay
    “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
    Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

  • #17
    Edmund Hillary
    “I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.”
    Edmund Hillary

  • #18
    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”
    Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

  • #19
    Dean Karnazes
    “I run because if I didn’t, I’d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I run…to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.”
    Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

  • #20
    John Muir
    “I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.”
    John Muir, The Wild Muir: Twenty-Two of John Muir's Greatest Adventures

  • #21
    John Muir
    “The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
    John Muir

  • #22
    B.K.S. Iyengar
    “Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”
    B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

  • #23
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You give but little when you give of your possessions.
    It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #24
    Mother Teresa
    “It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
    Mother Theresa

  • #25
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
    Tagore

  • #26
    Shannon L. Alder
    “The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.”
    Shannon L. Alder

  • #28
    Jay Woodman
    “Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life.”
    Jay Woodman

  • #29
    John Steinbeck
    “A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
    John Steinbeck, East of Eden

  • #30
    Sigmund Freud
    “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
    Sigmund Freud

  • #31
    Jack Kerouac
    “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
    Jack Kerouac

  • #32
    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road



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