72 Deep, Brave & Optimistic Quotes To Live By
Life is a beautiful gift, a divine appointment despite its ups and downs.
Every day is different, a new chapter in the book of life with its own opportunities and challenges. In our path we will encounter moments of joy and happiness where lovely things happen around us – they are the sunshine that brightens our day. But we will also face difficulties and failures and feel frustration and anger when things do not work out as expected. They will test our courage and character stretching us to our very limit of our mental and emotional strength, but they also involve profound growth – they are the rain that we need to blossom.
The sad reality of today is that we live in a world where we are discouraged rather than encouraged, but you know that kites rise against the wind and not with it. It is all a matter of perspective. So, do you grumble because roses have thorns or feel joy because thorns have roses?
Life has many chapters for you, so if you find yourself in a bad chapter, look no further.
Here we have selected for you the most inspirational quotes from the world’s greatest minds and thinkers and compiled a library of wisdom that you can access any time you need to surround yourself with positive influence and energy. They are your daily life mantras, words with powerful meaning, that can completely change your perspective of any situation. Share them with loved ones to encourage them and ignite hope. Bookmark them and scroll through whenever you need a dose of inspiration and advice. They have the amazing ability of opening your mind, shifting your thinking and pondering the wonderful possibilities of life!
Table of Contents
- Top 10 Quotes To Live By
- Meaningful Quotes To Life By
- Brave Quotes To Live By
- Positive Quotes To Live By
- Funny Quotes To Live By
Top 10 Quotes To Live By
- Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi
- Luck is the residue of design. John Milton
- The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
- Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.’ John Greenleaf Whittier
- If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton
- The meaning of life is that it stops. Franz Kafka
- Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Jose Luis Borges
- The unexamined life is not worth living. Socrates
- Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary. Oscar Wilde
- The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Lao Tzu
Meaningful Quotes To Life By
- I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom. Rosa Parks
- To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life. T.S. Eliot
- Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death. Rumi
- All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love. Johnny Cash
- The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life. Oprah Winfrey
- Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
- Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
- It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. Ralph Ellison
- The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Nicolas Chamfort
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley
- Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. William Shakespeare
- Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. Steve Maraboli
- I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light. Helen Keller
- No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker
- Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair. Irvin D. Yalom
- Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. José Saramago
- We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
- Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl G. Jung
- Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Gabriel García Márquez
- Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? Friedrich Nietzsche
Brave Quotes To Live By
- Life is either a great adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
- Resist much, obey little. Walt Whitman
- You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore. William Faulkner
- Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. August Wilson
- It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings
- In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
- He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. Henry David Thoreau
- I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso
- We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
- Just remember: The people that say, ‘your dreams are impossible’ have already quit on theirs. Grant Cardone
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel
- Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
- Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. Henry Rollins
- If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s. Joseph Campbell
- Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Positive Quotes To Live By
- If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson
- I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
- Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
- If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. Mark Twain
- Where there is love there is life. Mahatma Gandhi
- When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi
- Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. Marcus Aurelius
- When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love … Marcus Aurelius
- Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
- Stay hungry. Stay foolish. Steve Jobs
- All human wisdom is contained in these two words – Wait and Hope. Alexandre Dumas
- The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong. Laura Ingalls Wilder
- To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen - Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Thich Nhat Hanh
Funny Quotes To Live By
- Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard
- My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. Woody Allen
- If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. Woody Allen
- To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. Reba McEntire
- There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats. Albert Schweitzer
- I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell
- Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five. Benjamin Franklin
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