This post is a compilation of my favorite quotes. Inspirational quotes, cooking quotes by Julia Child, Shakespeare quotes, and travel quotes. These are words that I constantly come back to and read over and over again for inspiration in my everyday life. I thought it would be a great way to start off the new year with a bang. Make sure you pin this post to your inspiration or vision boards and add your favorite quote in the comments below.

“Life’s too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don’t, and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

-Dr. Seuss

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inspirational quotes

Inspirational Quotes:

  1. “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
  2. “We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.” -Max Depree
  3. “The best revenge is massive success.” – Frank Sinatra
  4. “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are too small.” – Richard Branson
  5. “Life is 10% what happens to you, and 90% how you react to it.” – unknown
  6. “Create a life you can’t wait to wake up to.” – unknown
  7. “Being positive isn’t pretending everything is good – it’s seeing the good in everything.” – unknown
  8. “What you think you become. What you feel you attract. What you imagine you create.” – Buddha
  9. Glow-Getter (noun) A driven busy gal who strives to achieve her goals in life while attaining a beautiful glow both inside and out.
  10. “Mindset is everything.” – unknown

cooking julia child quotes

Julia Child Quotes: 

  1. “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a what-the-hell attitude.” – Julia Child
  2. “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” – Julia Child
  3. “I still feel that French cooking is the most important in the world, one of the few that has rules. If you follow the rules, you can do pretty well.” – Julia Child
  4. “You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” – Julia Child
  5. “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” – Julia Child
  6. “I enjoy cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.” – Julia Child
  7. “People who love to eat are always the best people.” – Julia Child
  8. “It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.” – Julia Child
  9. “Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy.” – Julia Child
  10. “The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken.” – Julia Child

Shakespeare quotes

Shakespeare Quotes:

  1. “Travelers never did lie, though fools at home condemn them.” – Shakespeare
  2. “Boldness be my friend.” – Shakespeare
  3. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – Shakespeare
  4. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on.” – Shakespeare
  5. “To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.” – Shakespeare
  6. “Journeys end in lovers meeting.” – Shakespeare
  7. “All the world’s a stage.” – Shakespeare
  8. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” -Shakespeare
  9. “She doth teach the torches to burn bright.” – Shakespeare
  10. “And though she be but little she is fierce.” – Shakespeare

Travel quotes

Travel Quotes:

  1. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb
  2. “Collect moments, not things.” – Aarti Khurana
  3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
  4. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot
  5. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho
  6. “You keep me safe, I’ll keep you wild.” – unknown
  7. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
  8. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” – Mark Twain
  9. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
  10. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

I hope you enjoyed my favorite 40 quotes. Happy New Year everyone. Comment your favorite quotes in the comments.



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