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Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts
I hope you can help me add uplifting and inspiring quotes here.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
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"My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think." -Tim Burton
"You were born to be real, not to be perfect."
"You can spend a lifetime trying to forget a few minutes of your childhood."
"I worry my depression and anxiety are always going to keep me from being the person I dreamed of becoming."
I can't help it, I know everyone elses' are hopeful, but this is just how I'm feeling right now. Sorry these quotes aren't as inspirational as all the others.
"Say what you like. I am not ashamed of my walls. My boundaries are my own and purposed for my shelter while I am in healing and vulnerable, I am regrouping. Life can wait. When I am good and ready I will climb them. Until then, let me be." -Beau Taplin
"The prerequisite for spending time with another person is that they nourish and inspire you" Will Smith
"Listen, it's too big a world to be in competition with everyone. The only person I have to be better than is myself." Col. Sherman T Potter, MASH.
You, as part of the Universe, are cared for as if you were a precious jewel, which you are.
~ from Zen and the Art of Happiness, Chris Prentiss
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is murder, germinating life. - Egon Schiele
Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
And then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most of everything, they make you feel so alive that you
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
"The great British explorer, George Mallory, who was to clib to the top of Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it? And he said 'Because it is there.'" - Ronald Regan
A quote within a quote!
Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear. To try rather than to not try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: (It cant be done). - Eleanor Roosevelt
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. - Thomas Szasz
"If we were meant to be in a same place, we would have roots instead of feet."
- Anonymous
If you're feeling sad and alone, move forward. We always have choice to be happy and free :)
"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears" _Michel de Montaigne
Or the Game of Thrones version ^^ "Fear cuts deeper than swords"
Too hard to pick one, here are three of my favorites:
"...there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." -Shakespeare's Hamlet
"The mind is a place of its own and in itself can make a Hell of Heaven, a Heaven of Hell." -Milton's Paradise Lost
"There's a side to the human personality that somehow senses that wherever the cosmic truth may lie, it doesn't lie in A, B, C, D. It lies somewhere in the mysterious, unknowable aspects of thought and life and experience. Man has always responded to it. Religion, mythology, allegories—it's always been one of the most responsive chords in man... One wants to break out of the clearly arguable, demonstrable things which really are not very meaningful, or very useful or inspiring, nor does one even sense any enormous truth in them."
-Stanley Kubrick (my favorite director ever)
She wore her scars
as her best attire,
a stunning dress
made of hellfire.
-Daniel Saint
Be whoever you feel like being, let them judge who they think you are.
Im me and your you. Nobody can change it but everybody can embrace it.
I have travelled thousands of miles just to be me in this moment. It doesnt matter where Ive been or where I might go but to be present right now. Experiencing life to the fullest and not missing out by looking too far behind or forward.
Love me or hate me, both are in my favor...if you love me, I'll always be in your heart...if you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
~William Shakespeare
it is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it - Joseph Joubert