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Quotes are words of wisdom that use the written word and the spoken to exemplify the gift and power of language. One of the great things about reading quotes is that if we recite them often they can affect our thinking and behavior in a positive way. Yes, a positive mindset can be a mere quote away. Best part of all, quotes can be used as a self-healing tool that is readily available for our benefit. This is why for many, myself included, quotes can best be described in just one word - WOW!
There is power in words that inspire us to think and see life from an improved perspective. A quote that resonates with us can help us find new meaning, inner strength, hope, and courage to change. All good things for the soul.
Quotes can be life changing. Try them!
Here's my extensive collection of favorite quotes. Don't worry; It's an easy read. If you like, use them or create your own and turn them into your life mantras.
It is my hope the powerful messages found in these wise words will help you keep going when the going gets tough.
Enjoy these power lines for wellness.
QUOTES ABOUT ACCEPTANCE:
"Accept what is, let go of what was and have faith in what will be."
- Sonia Ricotti
"Learn to let things you can't control...go."
- Author Unknown
"We all have flaws. The end."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT CHALLENGES:
"Life will keep bringing you the same test, over & over again, til you pass it..."
- Author Unknown
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."
- Amelia Earhart
"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."
- Elizabeth Edwards
QUOTES ABOUT CHANGE:
"If You don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
- Maya Angelou
"Change brings opportunity."
- Nido Qubein
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
- Robert Anthony
QUOTES ABOUT CHOICES:
"Every day brings a choice: to practice stress or to practice peace."
- Joan Borysenko
"The choices you make in life will make your life."
- Michael Josephson
QUOTES ABOUT COURAGE:
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
- Nelson Mandela
"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
- Winston Churchill
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
QUOTES ABOUT DEATH:
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
- George Eliot
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
- Mitch Albom
QUOTES ABOUT DETERMINATION:
"The strongest people aren't always the people who win, but the people who don't give up when they lose."
- Ashley Hodgeson
"Stop with the "IF ONLYs" and start with "I WILL."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT FAILURE:
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Winston Churchill
"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
QUOTES ABOUT FAITH:
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Let your faith be bigger than your fears."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT FEAR:
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone."
- David Joseph Schwartz
QUOTES ABOUT FORGIVENESS:
"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and... realizing you were the prisoner!"
- Max Lucado
"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
- Gerald Jampolsky
QUOTES ABOUT GRATITUDE:
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
- Oprah Winfrey
"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."
- Steve Maraboli
QUOTES ABOUT GRIEF:
"I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss."
- Rita Mae Brown
"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."
- Anne Roiphe
QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS:
"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."
- Gerard Way
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say & what you do are in harmony."
- Gandhi
QUOTES ABOUT HEALING:
"One of the most courageous decision you'll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul."
- Brigitte Nicole
"I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become."
- C.G. Jung
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
- Hubert H. Humphrey
QUOTES ABOUT HOPE:
"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
- Jean Kerr
"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."
- Desmond Tutu
QUOTES ABOUT JOY:
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
- Eckhart Tolle
"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."
- Marianne Williamson
QUOTES ABOUT LIFE:
"Some people come in your life as blessings, others come in your life as lessons."
- Mother Teresa
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."
- Dalai Lama
"You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better, you did better."
- Maya Angelou
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
- Robert Frost
"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT LOVE:
"It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does."
- Peter McWilliams
"Eventually you will come to realize that love heals everything, and love is all there is."
- Gary Zukav
"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
QUOTES ABOUT MOTIVATION:
"Don't wait for your feelings to change to take action. Take the action and your feelings will change."
- Barbara Baron
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
- Jim Rohn
QUOTES ABOUT PAIN:
"When something bad happens you have three choices. You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you."
- Author Unknown
"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."
- J.K. Rowling
"Don't make a permanent decision for a temporary emotion."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS:
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
- Victoria Holt
"Don't let past relationships ruin your future happiness. Scars remind us of where we've been, not where we are going."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT RISKS:
"Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
- Walter Anderson
"If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances."
- Julia Soul
QUOTES ABOUT SADNESS:
"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking."
- Eckhart Tolle
"Action is the antidote to despair."
- Joan Baez
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out joy."
- Jim Rohn
QUOTES ABOUT SELF-ESTEEM:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone."
- Maya Angelou
"Self Knowledge is the beginning of Self improvement."
- Spanish Proverb
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."
- Walt Disney
QUOTES ABOUT STRENGTH:
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
- Winston Churchill
"Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go."
- Hermann Hesse
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Determination will get you through this."
- Author Unknown
"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up."
- Robert Tew
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
- Robert Tew
"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."
- Buddha
QUOTES ABOUT STRESS:
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."
- William James
"Don't stress over past mistakes because there's nothing you can do to change them. Focus on you present and create your future today."
- Author Unknown
QUOTES ABOUT THOUGHTS:
"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
- Shakespeare
"What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you."
- Seneca
"He is able who thinks he is able."
- Buddha
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
QUOTES ABOUT WISDOM:
"View your life with kindsight. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, 'what was I thinking,' breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, 'what was I learning?"
- Karen Salmansohn
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
- Theodore I. Rubin
"You can't have a positive life and a negative mind."
- Joyce Meyer
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
- Rumi
QUOTES ABOUT WORRY:
"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
- Winston Churchill
"Worry is a total waste of time. It doesn't change anything. All it does is steal your joy and keeps you very busy doing nothing."
- Author Unknown
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy."
- Leo Buscaglia
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