- Attend at least one major sporting event: the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the U.S. Open.
- Throw a huge party and invite every one of your friends.
- Swim with a dolphin.
- Skydive.
- Have your portrait painted.
- Learn to speak a foreign language and make sure you use it.
- Go skinny-dipping at midnight in the South of France.
- Watch the launch of the space shuttle.
- Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
- Be an extra in a film.
- Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
- Make love on a forest floor.
- Make love on a train.
- Learn to rollerblade.
- Own a room with a view.
- Brew your own beer.
- Learn how to take a compliment.
- Buy a round-the-world air ticket and a rucksack, and run away.
- Grow a beard and leave it for at least a month.
- Give your mother a dozen red roses and tell her you love her.
- Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
- Put your name down to be a passenger on the first tourist shuttle to the moon.
- Send a message in a bottle.
- Ride a camel into the desert.
- Get to know your neighbors.
- Plant a tree.
- Learn not to say yes when you really mean no.
- Write a fan letter to your all-time favorite hero or heroine.
- Visit the Senate and the House of Representatives to see how Congress really works.
- Learn to ballroom dance properly.
- Eat jellied eels from a stall in London.
- Be the boss.
- Fall deeply in love — helplessly and unconditionally.
- Ride the Trans-Siberian Express across Asia.
- Sit on a jury.
- Write the novel you know you have inside you.
- Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe.
- Stay out all night dancing and go to work the next day without having gone home (just once).
- Drink beer at Oktoberfest in Munich.
- Be someone’s mentor.
- Shower in a waterfall.
- Ask for a raise.
- Learn to play a musical instrument with some degree of skill.
- Teach someone illiterate to read.
- Be one of the first to take a flight on the new Airbus A380.
- Spend a night in a haunted house — by yourself.
- Write down your personal mission statement, follow it, and revise it from time to time.
- See a lunar eclipse.
- Spend New Year’s in an exotic location.
- Get passionate about a cause and spend time helping it, instead of just thinking about it.
- Experience weightlessness.
- Sing a great song in front of an audience.
- Ask someone you’ve only just met to go on a date.
- Drive across America from coast to coast.
- Make a complete and utter fool of yourself.
- Own one very expensive but absolutely wonderful business suit.
- Write your will.
- Sleep under the stars.
- Take a ride on the highest roller coaster in the country.
- Learn how to complain effectively — and do it!
- Go wild in Rio during Carnival.
- Spend a whole day reading a great novel.
- Forgive your parents.
- Learn to juggle with three balls.
- Drive the Autobahn.
- Find a job you love.
- Spend Christmas on the beach drinking pina coladas.
- Overcome your fear of failure.
- Raft through the Grand Canyon.
- Donate money and put your name on something: a college scholarship, a bench in the park.
- Buy your own house and then spend time making it into exactly what you want.
- Grow a garden.
- Spend three months getting your body into optimum shape.
- Drive a convertible with the top down and music blaring.
- Accept yourself for who you are.
- Learn to use a microphone and give a speech in public.
- Scuba dive off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
- Go up in a hot-air balloon.
- Attend one really huge rock concert.
- Kiss someone you’ve just met on a blind date.
- Be able to handle: your tax forms, Jehovah’s Witnesses, your banker, telephone solicitors.
- Give to a charity — anonymously.
- Lose more money than you can afford at roulette in Vegas.
- Let someone feed you peeled, seedless grapes.
- Kiss the Blarney stone and develop the gift of gab.
- Fart in a crowded space.
- Make love on the kitchen floor.
- Go deep sea fishing and eat your catch.
- Create your own web site.
- Visit the Holy Land.
- Make yourself spend a half-day at a concentration camp and swear never to forget.
- Run to the top of the Statue of Liberty.
- Create your Family Tree.
- Catch a ball in the stands of a major league baseball stadium.
- Make a hole-in-one.
- Ski a double-black diamond run.
- Learn to bartend.
- Run a marathon.
- Look into your child’s eyes, see yourself, and smile.
- Reflect on your greatest weakness, and realize how it is your greatest strength.
100 things to do before you die
100 “I Love You!” in different languages
English – I love you
Afrikaans – Ek het jou lief
Albanian – Te dua
Arabic – Ana behibak (to male)
Arabic – Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian – Yes kez sirumem
Bambara – M’bi fe
Bengali – Ami tomake bhalobashi (pronounced: Amee toe-ma-kee bhalo-bashee)
Belarusian – Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya – Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian – Obicham te
Cambodian – Soro lahn nhee ah
Catalan – T’estimo
Cherokee – Tsi ge yu i
Cheyenne – Ne mohotatse
Chichewa – Ndimakukonda
Chinese
Cantonese – Ngo oiy ney a
Mandarin – Wo ai ni
Comanche – U kamakutu nu
(pronounced oo—-ka-ma-koo-too—–nu) — Thx Tony
Corsican – Ti tengu caru (to male)
Cree – Kisakihitin
Creol – Mi aime jou
Croatian – Volim te
Czech – Miluji te
Danish – Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch – Ik hou van jou
Elvish – Amin mela lle (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)
Esperanto – Mi amas vin
Estonian – Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian – Afgreki’
Faroese – Eg elski teg
Farsi – Doset daram
<!—-> Filipino – Mahal kita
Finnish – Mina rakastan sinua
French – Je t’aime, Je t’adore
Frisian – Ik hald fan dy
Gaelic – Ta gra agam ort
Georgian – Mikvarhar
German – Ich liebe dich
Greek – S’agapo
Gujarati – Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon – Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian – Aloha Au Ia`oe
Hebrew
To female – “ani ohev otach” (said by male) “ohevet Otach” (said by female)
To male – “ani ohev otcha” (said by male) “Ohevet ot’cha” (said by female)
Hiligaynon – Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi – Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong – Kuv hlub koj
Hopi – Nu’ umi unangwa’ta
Hungarian – Szeretlek
Icelandic – Eg elska tig
Ilonggo – Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian – Saya cinta padamu
Inuit – Negligevapse
Irish – Taim i’ ngra leat
Italian – Ti amo
Japanese – Aishiteru or Anata ga daisuki desu
Kannada – Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan – Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili – Nakupenda
Konkani – Tu magel moga cho
Korean – Sarang Heyo or Nanun tangshinul sarang hamnida
Latin – Te amo
Latvian – Es tevi miilu
Lebanese – Bahibak
Lithuanian – Tave myliu
Luxembourgeois – Ech hun dech gaer
Macedonian – Te Sakam
Malay – Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam – Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Maltese – Inhobbok
Marathi – Me tula prem karto
Mohawk – Kanbhik
Moroccan – Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl – Ni mits neki
Navaho – Ayor anosh’ni
Ndebele – Niyakutanda
Norwegian
Bokmaal – Jeg elsker deg
Nyonrsk – Eg elskar deg
Pandacan – Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan – Inaru Taka
Papiamento – Mi ta stimabo
Persian – Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin – Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish – Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese – Eu te amo
Romanian – Te iubesc
Russian – Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic – Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian – Volim te
Setswana – Ke a go rata
Sign Language – ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing ‘I Love You’)
Sindhi – Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux – Techihhila
Slovak – Lu`bim ta
Slovenian – Ljubim te
Spanish – Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili – Ninapenda wewe
Swedish – Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German – Ich lieb Di
Surinam – Mi lobi joe
Tagalog – Mahal kita
Taiwanese – Wa ga ei li
Tahitian – Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil – Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu – Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai
To female – Phom rak khun
To male – Chan rak khun
Informal – Rak te
Tunisian – Ha eh bak
Turkish – Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian – Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu – mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese
To female – Anh ye^u em
To male – Em ye^u anh
Welsh – ‘Rwy’n dy garu di
Yiddish – Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba – Mo ni fe
Zazi – Ezhele hezdege
Zuni – Tom ho’ ichema
100 Ways to Say “I Love You”
- Recreate your first date
- Cuddle on the couch
- Hold hands while watching TV
- Surprise her by coming home early from work
- Take her shopping for the afternoon
- Sleep under the stars
- Change the oil in her car
- Cook his favorite meal
- Kiss hello
- Have professional portraits taken together
- Spend the entire day in bed
- Send him a card for no reason
- Carpool so you can spend more time together
- Have a date night every week
- Prepare a meal together
- Treat her to a pedicure
- Shovel her sidewalk after a snowstorm
- Plant a garden together
- Laugh at his jokes
- Warm his towel in the dryer while he’s in the shower
- Fall asleep touching
- Do a favor for his Mom
- Buy new underwear and put on a fashion show for your mate
- Dance the night away
- Sing in the shower together
- Tell him he’s sexy
- Tell her she’s sexy
- Say “I love you” everyday
- Buy her a sweet treat
- Make your relationship a top priority
- Do the dishes after she prepares the meal
- Hide a love note in his briefcase or lunchbox
- Show affection in public
- Massage his shoulders
- Go with him to his favorite sporting event
- Play a board game by candle light
- Sip hot cocoa by the fire
- Plan a romantic evening without the kids
- Make and eat chocolate covered strawberries together
- Help each other with household chores
- Call him at work just to say “I love you”
- Take the kids out for the morning and give her some alone time
- Rent his favorite movie
- Join a sports team together
- Throw a party for his birthday
- Share a bubble bath
- Write him a message on the steamy bathroom mirror
- Read a book together
- Wash her car
- Hug a lot
- Do a jigsaw puzzle together
- Make love at least once a week
- Exercise together
- Get married
- Have children
- Go on a picnic
- Plan your dream home together
- Watch your wedding video on your anniversary
- Vacation on the beach together
- Tell him you appreciate him
- Open the door for her
- Bake cookies together
- Ask her Dad for her hand in marriage
- Get to know her family
- Kiss for more than 10 seconds
- Serve her breakfast in bed
- Help with the laundry
- Make soup when she’s under the weather
- Record memorable occasions in a journal
- Start a collection together
- Go on a bike ride
- Read your wedding vows on your anniversary
- Plan a spa weekend for her and her best friend
- Kiss goodbye
- Leave a love note in his car
- Bite your tongue
- Take dance lessons together
- Play with your kids together
- Say “I love you” in a different language
- Send each other text messages throughout the day
- Decorate heart shaped cookies together
- Spend a day giving back to your community
- Wink to her from across a crowded room
- Blow kisses to each other
- Help her with a project she’s been wanting to complete
- Pay attention when he’s talking
- Take cooking lessons together
- Go hiking at sunset
- Write love letters
- Surprise him.
- Be each other’s best friends
- Return to your honeymoon hotel years later
- Offer her your arm
- Play with her hair
- Try something new together
- Pick up his shirts at the cleaners
- Run an errand for her
- Always respect each other
- Forgive each other
- Give each other a foot massage
100 Ways to Say “Good Job!”
When you need another way to say “good job” there are many creative ways. Here are just a few examples:
- Right on!
- You’re so smart!
- Nice going.
- Good remembering.
- I knew you could do it.
- You’ve got it made.
- SUPER!
- That’s right!
- That’s good.
- I’m very proud of you.
- You’re really working hard today.
- Way to go!
- You are very good at that.
- That’s coming along nicely.
- GOOD WORK!
- I’m happy to see you working
- like that.
- That’s much, much better!
- Exactly right.
- I’m proud of the way you worked
- today.
- You’re doing that much better today.
- You’ve just about got it.
- That’s the best you’ve ever done.
- You’re doing a good job.
- THAT’S IT!
- Now you’ve figured it out.
- That’s quite an improvement.
- GREAT!
- Congratulations!
- Not bad.
- Keep working on it.
- You’re improving.
- Now you have it!
- You are learning fast.
- Good for you!
- Couldn’t have done it better myself.
- Aren’t you proud of yourself’
- One more time and you’ll have it.
- You really make my job fun.
- That’s the right way to do it.
- You’re getting better every day.
- You did it that time!
- That’s not half bad.
- Nice going.
- You haven’t missed a thing!
- WOW!
- That’s the way!
- Keep up the good work.
- TERRIFIC!
- Nothing can stop you now.
- That’s the way to do it.
- SENSATIONAL!
- You’ve got your brain in gear today.
- That’s better.
- That was first class work.
- EXCELLENT!
- That’s the best ever.
- You’ve just about mastered it.
- PERFECT!
- That’s better than ever.
- Much better!
- WONDERFUL!
- You must have been practicing.
- You did that very well.
- FINE!
- You’re on the right track now!
- You’re really going to town.
- OUTSTANDING!
- FANTASTIC!
- TREMENDOUS!
- That’s how to handle that.
- Now that’s what I call a fine job.
- That’s great.
- You’re really improving.
- You’re doing beautifully!
- SUPERB!
- You’ve got that down pat.
- You certainly did well today.
- Keep it up!
- Congratulations. You got it right!
- You did a lot of work today.
- Well look at you go.
- That’s it.
- I like knowing you.
- MARVELOUS!
- I like that.
- Fabulous!
- Now you have the hang of it.
- You’re doing fine!
- Good thinking.
- You are really learning a lot.
- Good going.
- I’ve never seen anyone do it
- better.
- Keep on trying.
- You outdid yourself today!
- Good for you!
- I think you’ve got it now.
- That’s a good (boy/girl).
- Good job, (person’s name).
- You figured that out fast.
- You remembered!
- That’s really nice.
- That kind of work makes me appy.
- It’s such a pleasure to teach when
- I think you’re doing the right thing
- “Look at you…smartypants!”
- “Way to go …little buddy!”
- “Awesome…kiddo!”
- “You’re just too much!”