101 Quotes That Hit Different
Life is tough! And the sometimes, what we need are bits of positive vibes that help us through with life.
Here are words that I hope touch you in more ways than one.
Life & Purpose
- “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” — Seneca
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi
- “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso
- “The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
- “You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts
- “We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese
- “The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
Love & Relationships
- “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” — Oscar Wilde
- “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo
- “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they’re yours. If they don’t, they never were.” — Richard Bach
- “We accept the love we think we deserve.” — Stephen Chbosky
- “Love is not about possession. It’s about appreciation.” — Osho
- “The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys and keys to fit our locks.” — Richard Bach
- “Love is friendship that has caught fire.” — Ann Landers
- “To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return.” — Madonna
- “The heart wants what it wants—there’s no logic to these things.” — Woody Allen
Pain & Growth
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Khalil Gibran
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi
- “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” — Haruki Murakami
- “Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you is the best thing that happens to you.” — Will Smith
- “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice, it takes love.” — Maza Dohta
- “The only way out is through.” — Robert Frost
- “You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.” — Bob Marley
- “Scars are just proof that you’re stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.” — Unknown
- “Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself.” — Marilyn Manson
Self-Discovery & Authenticity
- “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Who are you when no one is watching?” — Unknown
- “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” — Carl Jung
- “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs
- “Comparison is the thief of joy.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” — Carl Jung
- “You are the books you read, the films you watch, the music you listen to, the people you meet…” — Charlotte Eriksson
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” — Maya Angelou
Time & Mortality
- “Death doesn’t take the best ones first. It takes the ones who are ready.” — Unknown
- “We’re all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass
- “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain
- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J.K. Rowling
- “Life is a brief intermission between birth and death.” — Seneca
- “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — John Lennon
- “The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha
- “We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.” — Calvin & Hobbes
- “The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin
- “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” — Marcus Aurelius
Success & Failure
- “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill
- “The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.” — Stephen McCranie
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi
- “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life.” — Unknown
- “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.” — Michael Jordan
- “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — Henry Ford
- “If you’re not failing, you’re not trying hard enough.” — Denzel Washington
- “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote
- “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” — Mark Zuckerberg
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Edison
Wisdom & Perspective
- “The more I see, the less I know for sure.” — John Lennon
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
- “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — Shakespeare
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” — Henri Bergson
- “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
- “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” — Gloria Steinem
- “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking
- “The more you know, the more you realize how much you don’t know.” — Aristotle
- “Not everything that weighs you down is yours to carry.” — Unknown
Creativity & Art
- “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” — Cesar Cruz
- “Every artist was first an amateur.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein
- “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso
- “Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso
- “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” — Ansel Adams
- “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou
- “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath
- “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent van Gogh
- “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Courage & Fear
- “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” — Nelson Mandela
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair
- “Fear is the mind-killer.” — Frank Herbert
- “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” — Franklin P. Jones
- “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — FDR
- “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” — Winston Churchill
- “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Fear is the path to the dark side.” — Yoda
- “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali
Happiness & Gratitude
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
- “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” — Thucydides
- “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” — Aesop
- “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore
- “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner
- “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.” — Unknown
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “If you want to be happy, be.” — Leo Tolstoy
- “The root of joy is gratefulness.” — David Steindl-Rast
- “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
Final Thought
- “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” — Frida Kahlo
Hope these hit different for you! Let me know if you want more on a specific theme. 🔥
