1. We all have trouble findingstrengthinthisharshworldsometimes.Fortunately,wise andmentally
strongpeople have come before usandsaidthingsthatupliftandinspire.These are our25 favorite
quotes.
1. “He who fears he will suffer,already suffersbecause he fears.” – Michel De Montaigne
2. “Before youdiagnose yourselfwith depressionorlow self-esteem,firstmake sure that you are
not, in fact, just surroundedby assholes.” – SigmundFreud
3. “Inseekinghappinessforothers, you will findit in yourself.” – Unknown
4. “Love is a verb. Love – the feeling–is a fruitof love,the verb.” – StephenCovey
5. “Everythingcan be taken from a man but one thing: the last ofthe human freedoms—tochoose
one’sattitude inany givenset ofcircumstances, to choose one’sown way.” – Viktor Frankl
6. “Everybodyisa genius.But if you judge a fishby its abilityto climb a tree, it will live itswhole
life believingthatit is stupid.” – AlbertEinstein
7. “Ifyou want happinessfor an hour – take a nap. If you want happinessfor a day – go fishing.If
you want happinessfor a year – inherita fortune.If you want happinessfor a life time – help
someone else.” –Chinese proverb
8. “Youmust be the change you wishto see in the world.” – Gandhi
9. “Whenone doorof happinesscloses,another opens,but oftenwe lookso longat the closed
door that we do not see the one that has beenopenedforus.” – HelenKeller
10. “Challengesiswhat makeslife interestingandovercoming themis what makes life
meaningful.” –Joshua J. Marine
11. “Successis stumblingfrom failure to failure with no lossof enthusiasm.” – WinstonChurchill
12. “Life isnever made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaningand purpose.” –
Viktor Frankl
13. “A mindthat is stretchedby a newexperience cannevergo back to its old dimensions.” –
OliverWendell Holmes
14. “Life isreally simple,butwe insiston making it complicated.” – Confucius
15. “Many people are passionate,but because of their limitingbeliefsaboutwhothey are and
what they can do, theynevertake actions that could make theirdream a reality” – Anthony Robins
16. “True successis overcomingthe fearof beingunsuccessful.” –Paul Sweeney
17. “The only way that we can live is ifwe grow. The only way we can grow is ifwe change.The
only way we can change is ifwe learn. The only way we can learnis if we are exposed.Andthe
only way that we are exposedis ifwe throw ourselvesintothe open.” – C. Joybell
18. “Ifyou don’t like something,change it. If you can’t change it,change the way you think about
it.” – Mary Engelbreit
19. “A life spentmaking mistakesis not only more honorable,but more useful than a life spent
doing nothing.” – George Bernhard Shaw
2. 20. “Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who
grieve,too short for those who rejoice,butfor those who love,time is eternity.” –Henry van Dyke
21. “I wouldrather die a meaningful deaththan to live a meaninglesslife.” –Corazon Aquino
22. “God,grant me the serenityto accept the thingsI cannot change,the courage to change the
things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”–ReinholdNiebuhr
23. “Mostpeople do not listenwith the intentto understand;they listenwiththe intentto reply.”
– StephenCovey
24. “We thinksometimesthat poverty is onlybeinghungry, naked and homeless.The poverty of
beingunwanted,unlovedand uncared for is the greatestpoverty. We must start in our own homes
to remedythis kind of poverty.” – Mother Theresa
25. “Yesterdayishistory, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a giftof God,which is why we call it the
present.” – Bil Keane
