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“Do something that pays the bills, and something that makes you happy. Then repeat this cycle until the latter does both.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Happiness, travel, Wanderlust
“People on the outside looking in often fall in love with the idea of success, but never want to hold hands with the struggle.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Traveling, Wanderlust, Success, Happiness
“If my passport cost as much as a degree, it would still be the best investment I ever made. The most important things to know about life are learned outside of the classroom. Love, compassion, and open-mindedness are curriculums in the school of travel, and as far as I’m concerned, that kind of education is on a whole other degree.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Wanderlust, Passport
“My passport has single-handedly changed my life for the better, and if you told me to give up my passport or my degree, I’d practically thrust my degree into your arms [along with a slew of debt] and bid thee farewell as I took off on another adventure.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Traveling, Passport, Wanderlust
“When you’re told to go into a career for the money, you lose sight of your purpose along the way. I truly believe the love of money is the root of all evil, and if you spend your life chasing it, then you’ll never have enough.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Career, Money, Wanderlust, love life
“I travel because I want to breathe the air of unknown territories, dance with the dancers in remote locations, and dine with the locals of unfamiliar backgrounds.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust
“Traveling is living in its purest form and nothing in life is a better teacher than the lessons you learn and experience through traveling.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Traveling, Experience, Learning
“No matter what language you speak or what part of the world you’re from, there’s a universal language of laughter, smiles, and love.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Language, travel, Smiles, Love
“Traveling is a constant dialogue between yourself and your soul, growing, learning, and challenging anything and everything you’ve ever thought about life.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Traveling, Wanderlust, Life Quotes
“Being in a foreign land and having this beautiful dialogue with beautiful people about the most intimate aspects of life, is what inspires me to continue spreading my wings to keep exploring this world.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Language Barrier, Exploring, love life
“Bless the hearts of the men who try to keep up with the fast-paced, ever-changing souls of us female wanderlusters. The quick wit, impulsive nature and always-evolving idea of what our lives should look like make us some of the most complex creatures to ruin, and yet grace the dating scene.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Wanderlust, Traveling Soul, Dating
“The road less traveled will never be crowded. Go the extra mile with work and you’ll go the extra mile in life.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Hard Work, Road Less Traveled
“I don't know what it is that your heart desires, but if you let another day go by without chasing after what you want in life, then maybe you don't want it as bad as you think.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling
Tagged: Hearts Desire, Chasing
“The minute you start falling victim to your circumstances is the minute you let the world dictate how high you can climb on this mountain of life.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling
Tagged: Circumstances, World Dictate, Victim
“You want everything to be shitty... So you have an excuse to fail.”
— Lauren Oliver, Panic
Tagged: excuses, Failure, shitty
“Life’s the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. Addition on top of addition. They pile up and pile up until the cost of keeping up appearances is too high and the weight is just too much. Then: collapse.”
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms: A Novel
Tagged: Life, misakes, Regrets
“Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose, either. If we didn't get out hearts stomped on, shattered; if we didn't have to patch and repatch it until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together by who knows what.”
— Lauren Oliver, Alex (Delirium Series Book 4)
Tagged: Love, Healing, Pain, Heartbroken
“There’s nothing more detrimental to our success than ourselves. We get in the way of our potential and growth by being complacent and settling for things that don’t make us happy.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Success, Growth, Settling, Happiness
“Grief is like sinking, like being buried.”
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Grief, sinking, Suffering
“Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never lose it or give it away.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, Dating, Relationships
“While we’re so quick to find our happy ending, we forget to enjoy the plot in between, and remember that the real magic is in the story.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Happy Endings, Magic, Stories
“Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: Change, Changing, quickly
“Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore.”
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Healing, Time, Patience
“That's what life is, pretty much: full of holes and tangles and ways to get stuck. Uncomfortable and itchy. A present you never asked for, never wanted, never chose. A present you're supposed to be excited to wear, day after day, even when you'd rather stay in bed and do nothing.”
— Lauren Oliver, Vanishing Girls
Tagged: Life, Suffering, Pain
“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.”
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms: A Novel
Tagged: unfair, Fail, warnings, Lies
“This was years ago, when I was a much younger lass in my twenties. I lived right by a forest that had a bunch of hiking trails through it, and I loved to take my dog for a walk there at night to look at the stars, listen to the river, get wicked baked, etc. You could expect other people there, it was a park after all, but usually it was pretty empty.

So for reference, I was about 100lbs soaking wet and my dog was a 10lb Mini Pin, so not exactly a threat to anyone. I also didn’t have my cell on me because I was dumb. It was about 11pm on a warm Tuesday night and we were just lazing in one of the little alcoves by the riverbank I like to rest at and enjoy the fireflies and whatnot. Then all of a sudden I hear this horrible scream. My dog starts barking like crazy and I freak out, but then I think ‘that was probably a rabbit’ because they scream like creepily human-like. My dog calms down and I go back to stargazing and then the scream happens again but louder. And then twice more.

My dog is growling and trying to hide behind me and then I hear this noise like a TRex is running through the forest - big loud stomps and branches breaking and shit. So now I think a girl is being chased and I feel awful because I don’t have my cell on me. It gets closer and my dog and I just hunker down hoping we can’t be seen from the path and I can see one of the trees above us shake. It felt like that scene from LOTR with the hobbits under the tree roots. The noise and stomping go right past me but I don’t see anything on the path. I stay there for a while, don’t hear anything else and eventually go home. There’s a lot of broken branches on the path and it smelled like wood smoke, but no other clues.

If my dog hadn’t been there being so visibly freaked out, I would assume it was a dream. She would never go down that specific path again either.”
— Batsignal_on_mars, A collection of creepy stories from the internet
Tagged: creepy, creepy stories, Scary Sentences
“Nobody ever said life was fair.”
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall Enhanced Edition
Tagged: fair, Equality, Fairness
“If you live a life so boldly and unapologetically, then life has no choice but to follow suit and command the reciprocation of luck to work in your favor.”
— Gloria Atanmo, From Excuses to Excursions: How I Started Traveling the World
Tagged: Traveling, Wanderlust, TC Books
“Love, the deadliest of all things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)
Tagged: Love, deadly, Killer
“My family moved around a lot when I was young, so my siblings and I lived in quite a few houses. One particular house was just strange, that’s the only way to describe it. From strange, siren-like noises that our parents never seemed to hear, to all the other unexplained things; I’m not really superstitious, but there was something going on in this house.

I shared a room with my younger sister who was known to sleepwalk from time to time, so I didn’t think much of it when I felt someone sit at the end of my bed: pulling the sheets tight over my feet and making the mattress dip down. Slightly annoyed, I called out to her to get her to move. She sat up from her own bed and the thing at the end of my bed pretty much jumped up.

A few years later, I was out running errands when I got a call from my brother, asking me to come home because something strange had just happened. The house had a bathroom that was set up so you could see the door in the mirror above the sink. My brother was washing his hands when he noticed the door start to creak open slightly. Deciding to have some fun with it, he quickly spun around and said ‘hi!’ Obviosuly not expecting anything to happen. Instead, the door flew open as if it had been pushed, bounced off the edge of the tub, and slammed closed.

At some point I found an odd flat stone while mowing the lawn. It turned out to be a knocked-over gravestone with the name ‘Angie’ on it, she apparently died in the house when she was two. So now we at least have a name for the ghost.”
— @rorrim-j-tori, A collection of creepy stories from the internet
Tagged: creepy, creepy stories, Scary Sentences

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