Quotes About Perspective
“The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” – Roy T. Bennett
“When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.” – Peter McWilliams
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzche
“Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.” – Marianne Cantwell
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
Joy and Happiness
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” – Walter Bagehot
“You do not find the happy life. You make it.” – Camilla Eyring Kimball
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” – Michael J. Fox
“The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly” – Friedrich Nietzche
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.” – Buddha
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” – Charlie Chaplin
Community and Others
“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main.”‒ John Donne.
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
Mental Health Quotes
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camers
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no one recipe for living that suits all cases.” – Carl Jung
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” – Fred Rogers
“Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” – Matt Haig
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” – Charles Bukowski
“I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.” – Vincent van Gogh
Anxiety and Worry
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength-carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” – Corrie Ten Boom
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie Ten Boom
“Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.” – Astrid Alauda
“If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.” – Ivan Nuru
Quotes About Persistence & Resilience
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much in where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”- Albert Einstein
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop” – Confucius
“Never let hard lessons harden your heart; The hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall” – Confucius
“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” – Najwa Zebian
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” – Rumi
“If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today.” – African Proverb
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self-Love
“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.
“Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.” – Rita Ghatourey
“I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
“Your soul will never be fully nourished by anyone’s love but your own.” – Dominee
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
“Who is the only person in your life who is available 24/7 to provide you with care and kindness? You.” – Kristin Neff
“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.” – Christopher Germer
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Wayne Dyer
Mindset
“You don’t have to control your thoughts, you just have to let them stop controlling you.” – Dan Millman
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” – John Milton
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Thinking: the talking to the soul with itself.” – Plato
“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
“Change your thoughts and change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“With our thoughts, we make the world.” – Buddhist Proverb
“None but ourselves can free our minds.” – Bob Marley
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” – Viktor Frankl
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
Quotes About Light
“Better light a candle, than curse the darkness.” – Chinese Proverb
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle
“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.” – Sabaa Tahirf
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put sunglasses on.” – Lady Gaga
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – J.M. Barrie
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light.” – Yogi Bhajan
“Even the darkest nights will end, and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo
About Hard Times
“If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
“If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.” –Latin Proverb
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” – Rumi
“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
Quotes About Self
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
“Comparison is an act of violence against the self.” – Iyanla Vanzant
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.” – Edward Everett Hale
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
“Remember, if you need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm. As you get older, remember you have another hand; The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.” – Sam Levenson
Change & Progress
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” – W.M. Lewis
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis
“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” — Author Unknown
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
Water – Alpha Template
“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there” – Edwin Louis Cole
“A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
“Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.” – Margaret Atwood
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus
Adventure Quotes – Gamma Template
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves” ― Henry David Thoreau
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – Albert Einstein
“All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.” – Earl Nightingale
“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” – Rumi
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing” – Barry Finlay
“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
“It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Anonymous
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Aristophanes
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.” Yogi Berra