Here are some of my favorite quotes. Some of them are self-care quotes and some I just struck me as good life advise. I will continue to add to this list, so check back often!
“The relationship you have with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have”
-Jane Travis
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
-CS Lewis
“The most powerful person in any situation is the most relaxed person in the room.”
-Elizabeth Gilbert
“You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.”
-Tony Gaskins
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
-Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
-Mark Twain
“So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.”
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The content of your character is your choice. day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become”
-Heraclitus
“The quality of your life is consistent with the quality of your decisions.”
-Ash Abirge
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
-Rumi
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.”
-Maya Angelou
“If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I am not interested in or open to your feedback. There are a million cheap seats in the world today filled with people who will never be brave with their own lives, but will spend every ounce of energy they have hurling advice and judgment at those of us trying to dare greatly. Their only contributions are criticism, cynicism, and fear-mongering. If you’re criticizing from a place where you’re not also putting yourself on the line, I’m not interested in your feedback.”
-Brene Brown
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”
-William James
“It is better to prepare and prevent rather to repair and repent.”.
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
-Marcus Aurelius
“Home is where heart is. Heart where cookie is. Math clear: home is cookie.”
-Cookie Monster
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its memebers…a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.”
-Coretta Scott King
“Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life”
-Leon Brown
“Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order”
-Wilson Schaelf
The real secret to a fabulous life is to live imperfectly with great delight.
“Self-care is never a selfish act – it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
-Parker Palmer
“Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles…it empties today of its strength.”
-Corrie Ten Boom
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back — concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth that ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
-Goethe
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle”
-Albert Einstein
“If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.”
-Barbara De Angelis
“It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying ‘yes’ is almost never a mistake. If you say not, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.”
-Noah Emmerich
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
-Orison Swett Marden
“When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself.”
-Paulo Coelho
“Gratitude is when a memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
-Lionel Hampton
Happiness is gratitude doubled by wonder.
“Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn’t going to go anywhere unless you do something about it.
-Marlo Thomas
“We get so wrapped up in numbers in our society. The most important thing is that we are able to be one-to-one, you and I with each other at the moment. If we can be present to the moment with the person that we happen to be with, that’s what’s important.”
-Mr. Rogers
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong.”
-Mahatma Ghandi
“In the journal, I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.”
-Susan Sontag
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”
-Edmond Lee
“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”
-Carl Jung
“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.”
-Virgil Garnett Thomson
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow'”
-Mary Ann Radmarcher
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
-Helen Keller
“First we form habits, then they form us.”
-Jim Rohn
Always keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
-Chinese Proverb
“If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.”
-Terence McKenna
“Your diet is not only what you eat. It is what you watch, what you listen to, what you read, and the people you hang around. Pay attention to what you feed your soul, not just your stomach.”
“To believe in yourself and follow your dreams, to have goals in life and drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy. That is success!”
-Sasha Azevedo
“Don’t you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can’t be exactly who you are.”
-Lady GaGa
“Every single time you say ‘yes’ to something, you are inadvertently saying ‘no’ to something else. Choose wisely.”
-Kimberly Haydn
“Every single time you say ‘yes’ to something, you are inadvertently saying ‘no’ to something else. Choose wisely.”
-Zig Ziglar
Make today so awesome that yesterday gets jealous!
“Your friends should motivate and inspire you. Your circle should e well rounded and supportive. Keep it tight. Quality of quantity, always.”
“Happiness is pretty simple. Someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.”
-Rita Mae Brown
“Life is a great big canvass and you should throw all the paint you can on it.”
-Danny Kaye
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
-Maya Angelou
“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.”
-LR Knost
“Do what you can with what you have and where you are.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
In life it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.
-Charles Schultz
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
-Jean Shinoda Bolen
“If you truly want to change your life, you must first be willing to change your mind.”
-Donald Altman
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
-Percicles
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.”
-RJ Palacio (Wonder)
“The greatest teacher, failure is.”
-Yoda
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention”
-Oscar Wilde
“Be kind to yourself. It’s the only thing that makes sense”
-Rachel Lynette
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