December 29th, 2017 | Updated on September 24th, 2022
1.”You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt,Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” -William W. Purkey
2.”We accept the love we think we deserve.”-Stephen Chbosky “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”-Thomas A. Edison
3. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”-Theodore Roosevelt
4. “Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”-Shel Silverstein
5. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”-Winston S. Churchill
6. “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”-Stephen Chbosky
7. “We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”-Veronica Roth
8. “For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your good old days are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”-Sam Levenson
9. “Don’t think or judge, just listen.”-Sarah Dessen
10. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. “Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.”-Thomas Szasz
12. “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”-Robert Fulghum
13. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”-Rick Riordan
14. “What’s meant to be will always find a way”-Trisha Yearwood
15. “Always do what you are afraid to do.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
16. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”-Walt Disney Company
17. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. “You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”-Saul Bellow
19. “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”-William Shakespeare
20. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”-Socrates
21. “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”-Suzanne Collins
22. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”-Sigmund Freud
23. “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”-Theodore Roosevelt
24. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
25. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”-Walt Disney Company
26. “When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he’s not easy to spot; he’s really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.”-Taylor Swift
27. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”-Steve Maraboli
28. “I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.”-Santosh Kalwar
29. “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”-Vincent van Gogh
30. “Dare to Be: When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway. When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back. When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some. When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going. When times are tough, dare to be tougher. When love hurts you, dare to love again. When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal. When another is lost, dare to help them find the way. When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand. When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile. When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too. When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best. Dare to be the best you can At all times, Dare to be!” -Steve Maraboli
31. “To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour.” -William Blake
32. “It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” -Stephenie Meyer
33. “To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.”-Taylor Swift
34. “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”-Vincent van Gogh
35”Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”-Voltaire
36. “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”-Will Rogers
37. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”-Stephen Hawking
38. “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”-Zora Neale Hurston
39. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”-Sharon Salzberg
40. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”-Steve Maraboli
41. “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”-Steve Maraboli
42. “Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”-Rick Riordan
43. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”-Sarah Dessen
44. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”-Zig Ziglar
45. “I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”-Robert Louis Stevenson
46. “please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.”-Stephen Chbosky
47. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”-Randy Pausch
48. “Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”-Rick Riordan
49. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”-Steve Maraboli
50. “I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”-Stephanie Lennox
51. “I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”-Steve Maraboli
52. “I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.”-William Nicholson
53. “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted fools.The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”-William Shakespeare
54. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”-Steve Maraboli
55. “If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,”I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . .” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”-Ray Bradbury
56. “Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.
57. “. . . When it comes down to it, thats what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.”-Rebecca Walker
58. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”-Walt Whitman
59. “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 E. Frankl
60. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
61. “I just want you to know that you’re very special and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.”-Stephen Chbosky
62. “We never know the quality of someone else’s life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”-Tami Hoag
