Life is a true miracle. It forces us to stand up when we’re feeling down and it makes us humble when we’re too proud.
It is a beautifully balanced journey consisting of innumerable obstacles and amazing things that you need to experience in order to find your true self.
Heartbreaks, loneliness, the curse of a materialistic world, happiness and a deep appreciation of love have inspired us to become stronger, better people.
And they have also inspired some of us to put everything we’ve gone through into words that have become mind-blowing quotes.
1. Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money. – Cree Indian Proverb
2. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present. – Marianne Williamson
3. Each new chapter of our lives requests an old part of us to fall and a new part of us to rise. – Jenna Galbut
4. When nobody celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside. – Joel Osteen
5. You’ll never really see how toxic someone is until you breathe fresher air. – Unknown
6. Perhaps, the problem is not the intensity of your love, but the quality of the people you are loving. – Warsan Shire
7. I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling apart; you’re just falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful. – William C. Hannan
8. Pain doesn’t just show up in our lives for no reason. It’s a sign that something in our lives needs to change. – Mandy Hale
9. Most people run because deep down they want to be chased. – Unknown
10. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. – Unknown
11. As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better. – Imam Al Ghazali
12. People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. – Thich Nhat Hanh
13. You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely perplexed and awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful – or where you always wanted to be. You will be grateful that things didn’t work out the way you once wanted them to. – Brianna Weist
14. Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know. – Colin Powell
15. Quiet people have the loudest minds. – Stephen Hawking
16. Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. – C.S. Lewis
17. I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About love, about life, about anything, about everything. To sit under the moon with all the time in the world, the full-speed train that is our lives slowing to a crawl. Bound by no obligations, barred by no human limitations. To speak without regret or fear of consequence. To talk for hours and about what’s really important in life. – Unknown
18. Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. – Mandy Hale
19. If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you. – Gregory House
20. Your life is your message to the world. Make sure it’s inspiring. – Unknown
21. You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you. – Andy Warhol
22. When I was young I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
23. Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C.S. Lewis
24. If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts
25. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from. – Seth Godin
26. A tiger doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep. – Shahir Zag
27. Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. – Michelle Obama
28. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. – Kahlil Gibran
29. Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles. – Charlie Chaplin
30. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance. – Unknown
31. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixed anything. – Ernest Hemingway
32. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually fear you will make one.. – Elbert Hubbard
33. We must be our own before we can be another’s. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. – Bob Bitchin
35. Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. Stop running away and you will be found. – Lao Tzu
36. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. – Oscar Wilde
37. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. – Charles Bukowski
38. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. – Scottish proverb
39. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. – John Ray
40. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein
41. There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle or as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
42. Next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. – Stephen Hawking
43. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
44. An adventurous life does not necessarily mean climbing mountains, swimming with sharks or jumping off cliffs. It means risking yourself by leaving a little piece of you behind in all those you meet along the way. – Shawna Grapentin
45. You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. – Rumi
46. There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live. – Dalai Lama
47. She knew she loved him when ‘home’ went from being a place to being a person. – E. Leventhal
48. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Dr. Seuss
49. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield
50. The more you hide your feelings for someone, the more you fall for them. – Unknown
51. I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. – Leo Christopher
52. A great relationship doesn’t happen because of the love you had in the beginning, but how well you continue building love until the end. – Unknown
53. It always rains hardest on those who deserve the sun. – Unknown
54. A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future and accepts you today the way you are. – Unknown
55. Happiness will never come those who don’t appreciate what they already have. – Unknown
56. The deeper your feelings, the harder they are to express. – Unknown
57. It’s hard to wait for something you know might not happen. It’s even harder to wait for something when it’s everything you’ve ever wanted. – Megan Lane Feringa
58. A person’s most beautiful asset is not a head full of knowledge, but a heart full of love, an ear ready to listen and a hand willing to help others. – Unknown
59. The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. – Unknown
60. When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. When you’re sad, you understand the lyrics. – Unknown
61. A woman who opens her heart to love you, when it’s already broken, is braver than any person you’ll meet. – Steven Benson
62. Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness. – Unknown
63. If you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself. – Cheryl Richardson
64. Have courage and be kind. When there is kindness, there is goodness and when there is goodness, there is magic. – Cinderella
65. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory. – Dr Seuss
