Nothing can freeze time and strip away the unimportant like a beautiful quote.I look forward to my daily quote as an opportunity to challenge myself.
Over time quotes have helped me to expand my internal language. I don’t think I ever knew I was a “pessimist” until I read the words of amazing men and women who have left a legacy of simple truth’s behind. I refer to myself as “inspired and hopeful” nowadays. It feels good to see life from the other side now.
Here are 24 of my favorite “save the day” quotes when you feel like you got handed a bag full of lemons. I encourage you to share your favorites with us by leaving a comment below.
- “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine“
- “Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” Aesop
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.” Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” Harriett Beecher Stowe
- “The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.” Norman Cousins
- “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” Khalil Gibran
- “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” George Bernard Shaw
- “Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington
- “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” William James
- “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”Richard L. Evans
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Unknown
- “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.” Ovid
- “Never let yesterday’s disappointments overshadow tomorrow’s dreams.” Unknown
- “There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.” Ray Goforth
- “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein
- “Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.” Charles A. Cerami
- “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.” Unknown
- “Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don’t know what they are going through, and they may need that smile. And treasure it.” Christine M. Huppert
- “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” Jack Penn
- “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” Abraham Lincoln
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These are my thoughts on living a healthy and simple life. I'm a modern mom with some simple ideas, a little common sense and a natural philosophy. This is the sanest way I know how to navigate the 21 century.
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I have two quote that I’m living by currently.
“Cleaning your home while you still have kids living in it is like shoveling the sidewalk before its stops snowing.” Phyllis Diller
“What you think of me is none of my business.” Unknown.