1000 Messages, Quotes, and Sayings for the Good and Bad Times

## Introduction

 

Life’s journey is filled with peaks and valleys, moments of exhilarating joy and periods of profound sadness. Throughout history, the wisdom of those who have walked before us has provided comfort, inspiration, and guidance. This collection of 1,000 messages, quotes, and sayings is designed to be a companion through all of life’s seasons—a source of strength during difficult times and a celebration during moments of triumph.

 

The image above represents the essence of this collection: a hand holding light in darkness, symbolizing how words of wisdom can illuminate our path when we need guidance most. Words have power—they can heal, motivate, comfort, and inspire. They remind us that we are not alone in our experiences and that others have navigated similar paths.

 

## For Times of Perseverance and Strength

 

### When Facing Challenges

 

1. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

 

2. “Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.” — Lou Holtz

 

3. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” — Bob Riley

 

4. “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” — Robert H. Schuller

 

5. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” — Benjamin Franklin

 

6. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Chuck Swindoll

 

7. “It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.” — Doe Zantamata

 

8. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller

 

9. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” — Walt Disney

 

10. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

 

### On Resilience and Endurance

 

11. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” — Randy Pausch

 

12. “If it’s endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining.” — Marcus Aurelius

 

13. “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

14. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

 

15. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese proverb

 

16. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” — Samuel Johnson

 

17. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews

 

18. “A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.” — George M. Moore Jr.

 

19. “Keep calm and carry on.” — Britain’s Ministry of Information, World War II

 

20. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost

 

### On Overcoming Failure

 

21. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

 

22. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

 

23. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

 

24. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison

 

25. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela

 

26. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” — James A. Michener

 

27. “Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever.” — Shane Parrish

 

28. “Your 1st blog post will be bad, but your 1000th will be great. Your 1st workout will be weak, but your 1000th will be strong.” — James Clear

 

29. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

 

30. “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

 

## For Times of Hope and Optimism

 

### On Finding Hope

 

31. “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu

 

32. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson

 

33. “Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.” — Helen Keller

 

34. “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

 

35. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

36. “There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.” — Bernard Williams

 

37. “Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” — Lin Yutang

 

38. “Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” — Jonas Salk

 

39. “Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.” — E.B. White

 

40. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

 

### On Maintaining Optimism

 

41. “I wake up every morning believing today is going to be better than yesterday.” — Will Smith

 

42. “The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” — E. Joseph Cossman

 

43. “Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” — Steve Maraboli

 

44. “Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.” — John Wayne

 

45. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe

 

46. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller

 

47. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” — Robin Williams

 

48. “A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.” — Howard Thurman

 

49. “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett

 

50. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

## For Times of Personal Growth

 

### On Self-Improvement

 

51. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

 

52. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton

 

53. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

54. “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

 

55. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

 

56. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” — Steve Jobs

 

57. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

 

58. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” — Wayne Dyer

 

59. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

 

60. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” — John D. Rockefeller

 

### On Learning and Wisdom

 

61. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.” — B.B. King

 

62. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

63. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” — Nelson Mandela

 

64. “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” — Albert Einstein

 

65. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

 

66. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

 

67. “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” — Mark Twain

 

68. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

 

69. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” — Vince Lombardi

 

70. “Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates

 

## For Times of Love and Friendship

 

### On Love

 

71. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” — Lao Tzu

 

72. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” — Maya Angelou

 

73. “Love is friendship set on fire.” — Jeremy Taylor

 

74. “If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh

 

75. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.” — Nicholas Sparks

 

76. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.” — Nicholas Sparks

 

77. “I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

 

78. “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

 

79. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” — Stephen Chbosky

 

80. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” — Victor Hugo

 

### On Friendship

 

81. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

 

82. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” — C.S. Lewis

 

83. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard

 

84. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson

 

85. “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

86. “True friendship is a plant of slow growth…” — George Washington

 

87. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” — Irish Proverb

 

88. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” — Helen Keller

 

89. “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by, the doubling of our joy, and diving of our grief.” — Joseph Addison

 

90. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young

 

## For Times of Grief and Healing

 

### On Loss and Grief

 

91. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II

 

92. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

 

93. “Grief is like the ocean; It comes in waves; ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” — Vicki Harrison

 

94. “Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.” — C.S. Lewis

 

95. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell

 

96. “Grief is just love with no place to go.” — Anonymous

 

97. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power.” — Washington Irving

 

98. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” — Jose N. Harris

 

99. “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.” — Kristina McMorris

 

100. “I will not say: Do not weep; For not all tears are evil.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

 

### On Healing and Moving Forward

 

101. “Healing is never complete until we have been truly heard.” — Jack Kornfield

 

102. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” — Rumi

 

103. “The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.” — Henri Nouwen

 

104. “We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.” — John Green

 

105. “It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while, it’s not so overwhelming.” — Nicholas Sparks

 

106. “Grief is not a disorder, a disease, or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, spiritual and physical necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve.” — Earl Grollman

 

107. “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen.” — Pema Chodron

 

108. “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” — William Shakespeare

 

109. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” — Irving Berlin

 

110. “Sometimes all you can do is lie in bed and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” — William C. Hannan

 

## For Times of Success and Achievement

 

### On Success

 

111. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

 

112. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

113. “I never dreamed about success, I worked for it.” — Estee Lauder

 

114. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton

 

115. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” — Colin Powell

 

116. “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — George S. Patton

 

117. “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” — Tony Robbins

 

118. “Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” — Coco Chanel

 

119. “Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.” — Pele

 

120. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand

 

### On Achievement and Goals

 

121. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

122. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.” — John C. Maxwell

 

123. “A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” — Colin Powell

 

124. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” — Michael Jordan

 

125. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

126. “You’ve got to be in it to win it.” — Tony Robbins

 

127. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

128. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.” — Walt Disney

 

129. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” — Walt Disney

 

130. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

 

## For Times of Change and Transition

 

### On Embracing Change

 

131. “Change is the only constant in life.” — Heraclitus

 

132. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu

 

133. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts

 

134. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

 

135. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

 

136. “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.” — Arnold Bennett

 

137. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw

 

138. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

 

139. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou

 

140. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein

 

### On New Beginnings

 

141. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca

 

142. “Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.” — Billy Chapata

 

143. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

 

144. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

 

145. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” — Buddha

 

146. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.” — Unknown

 

147. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

 

148. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb

 

149. “Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.” — Kate DiCamillo

 

150. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” — Harriet Tubman

 

## For Times of Courage and Fear

 

### On Finding Courage

 

151. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

 

152. “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” — Aristotle

 

153. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher

 

154. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” — Winston Churchill

 

155. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” — Nelson Mandela

 

156. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — E.E. Cummings

 

157. “Courage is grace under pressure.” — Ernest Hemingway

 

158. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin

 

159. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” — Ambrose Redmoon

 

160. “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott

 

### On Overcoming Fear

 

161. “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” — Japanese Proverb

 

162. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

163. “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” — Jack Canfield

 

164. “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

 

165. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” — Rosa Parks

 

166. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” — Dale Carnegie

 

167. “The fear of being laughed at makes coward of us all.” — Mignon McLaughlin

 

168. “Next time, ask: ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare.” — Audre Lorde

 

169. “Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.” — Olivia Newton-John

 

170. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell

 

## For Times of Gratitude and Happiness

 

### On Gratitude

 

171. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” — Anonymous

 

172. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” — Cicero

 

173. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson

 

174. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” — Zig Ziglar

 

175. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

176. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

 

177. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault

 

178. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” — Henry Ward Beecher

 

179. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy

 

180. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” — Meister Eckhart

 

### On Finding Happiness

 

181. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama

 

182. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn

 

183. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” — Mandy Hale

 

184. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

 

185. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss

 

186. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” — Jim Rohn

 

187. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

 

188. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” — Thucydides

 

189. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” — George Sand

 

190. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore

 

## For Times of Wisdom and Reflection

 

### On Wisdom

 

191. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

 

192. “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” — Claude Levi-Strauss

 

193. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

 

194. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” — Confucius

 

195. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” — William Arthur Ward

 

196. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi

 

197. “It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

198. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare

 

199. “We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

200. “The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” — Aristotle

 

### On Reflection and Mindfulness

 

201. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

 

202. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

203. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

 

204. “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” — John Dewey

 

205. “In today’s rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just being.” — Eckhart Tolle

 

206. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

 

207. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” — Anne Lamott

 

208. “Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” — Sharon Salzberg

 

209. “The mind is everything. What you think you become.” — Buddha

 

210. “Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.” — Amit Ray

 

## For Times of Leadership and Influence

 

### On Leadership

 

211. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” — Simon Sinek

 

212. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell

 

213. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” — Ronald Reagan

 

214. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy

 

215. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold H. Glasow

 

216. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams

 

217. “The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.” — Henry Kissinger

 

218. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader

 

219. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis

 

220. “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.” — Albert Schweitzer

 

### On Making a Difference

 

221. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

 

222. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” — Anne Frank

 

223. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

224. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

225. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

226. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington

 

227. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

 

228. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

229. “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pine

 

230. “We rise by lifting others.” — Robert Ingersoll

 

## For Times of Sorrow and Loss

 

### On Sadness

 

231. “Tears are words that need to be written.” — Paulo Coelho

 

232. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

 

233. “The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” — Carl Jung

 

234. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

235. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.” — Washington Irving

 

236. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” — Henry Rollins

 

237. “Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible.” — Elizabeth Wurtzel

 

238. “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.” — Osho

 

239. “Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” — Jean de La Fontaine

 

240. “To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.” — Dorothy Thompson

 

### On Healing After Loss

 

241. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

242. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” — Vicki Harrison

 

243. “There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.” — Aeschylus

 

244. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

245. “Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved. Where there is deep grief, there was great love.” — Unknown

 

246. “Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” — Tori Amos

 

247. “I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

 

248. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness.” — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 

249. “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

250. “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

## For Times of Forgiveness and Letting Go

 

### On Forgiveness

 

251. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” — Mark Twain

 

252. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

253. “Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” — Paul Boese

 

254. “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.” — Maya Angelou

 

255. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Lewis B. Smedes

 

256. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

257. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.” — Maya Angelou

 

258. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” — Indira Gandhi

 

259. “Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” — Hannah Arendt

 

260. “Forgiveness is the needful and fundamental act of love.” — Frederick Buechner

 

### On Letting Go

 

261. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hesse

 

262. “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

 

263. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” — Steve Maraboli

 

264. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” — Deborah Reber

 

265. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” — Nicole Sobon

 

266. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” — C. JoyBell C.

 

267. “Let go of what has passed. Right now is a new beginning.” — Unknown

 

268. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

269. “Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.” — Ralph Marston

 

270. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu

 

## For Times of Patience and Waiting

 

### On Patience

 

271. “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” — Joyce Meyer

 

272. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

 

273. “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” — Saadi

 

274. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” — A.A. Milne

 

275. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

276. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” — Saint Augustine

 

277. “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

278. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” — John Quincy Adams

 

279. “One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.” — Chinese Proverb

 

280. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” — David G. Allen

 

### On Waiting

 

281. “Everything comes to you at the right time. Be patient.” — Unknown

 

282. “Good things come to those who wait… but better things come to those who work for it.” — Unknown

 

283. “The waiting is the hardest part.” — Tom Petty

 

284. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” — Joyce Meyer

 

285. “Everything that is worth waiting for will come to you in perfect timing.” — Unknown

 

286. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” — Paulo Coelho

 

287. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” — Paulo Coelho

 

288. “The wait is painful, but the wait is worth it.” — Unknown

 

289. “What we are waiting for is not as important as what happens to us while we are waiting. Trust the process.” — Mandy Hale

 

290. “All good things come to those who wait, but when they arrive, they’re no longer good… they’re great.” — Unknown

 

## For Times of Kindness and Compassion

 

### On Kindness

 

291. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop

 

292. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

 

293. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato

 

294. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu

 

295. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” — Princess Diana

 

296. “A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” — Amelia Earhart

 

297. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.” — Henry James

 

298. “Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.” — Amelia Barr

 

299. “Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” — Robert Green Ingersoll

 

300. “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

### On Compassion

 

301. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” — Dalai Lama

 

302. “Compassion is the basis of morality.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

 

303. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama

 

304. “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” — Nelson Mandela

 

305. “When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives.” — Kristin Neff

 

306. “The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.” — Norman Cousins

 

307. “Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.” — Pema Chödrön

 

308. “Compassion is the chief law of human existence.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

309. “Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.” — Mason Cooley

 

310. “True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” — Daniel Goleman

 

## For Times of Strength and Determination

 

### On Inner Strength

 

311. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

312. “You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” — Bob Marley

 

313. “Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” — Rikki Rogers

 

314. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

 

315. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius

 

316. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” — Napoleon Hill

 

317. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” — Ernest Hemingway

 

318. “Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.” — Susan Gale

 

319. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

320. “The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.” — C. JoyBell C.

 

### On Determination

 

321. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

 

322. “Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.” — Denis Waitley

 

323. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” — Tommy Lasorda

 

324. “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” — Jim Rohn

 

325. “You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” — Ralph Marston

 

326. “The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” — Channing Pollock

 

327. “Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” — Mario Andretti

 

328. “Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.” — Benjamin Disraeli

 

329. “When you see what you’re here for, the world begins to mirror your purpose in a magical way. It’s almost as if you suddenly find yourself on a stage in a play that was written expressly for you.” — Betty Sue Flowers

 

330. “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

## For Times of Balance and Harmony

 

### On Finding Balance

 

331. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein

 

332. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” — Thomas Merton

 

333. “The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.” — Anonymous

 

334. “Balance is not something you find, it’s something you create.” — Jana Kingsford

 

335. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” — Deepak Chopra

 

336. “Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management.” — Betsy Jacobson

 

337. “Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.” — Stephen R. Covey

 

338. “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” — Euripides

 

339. “Next to love, balance is the most important thing.” — John Wooden

 

340. “There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.” — Alain de Botton

 

### On Harmony

 

341. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

342. “The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.” — Peace Pilgrim

 

343. “A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

344. “There is harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

345. “Happiness exists when you don’t know a thing.” — Marcel Proust

 

346. “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.” — Confucius

 

347. “Where there is faith, there is love; where there is love, there is peace; where there is peace, there is God; and where there is God, there is no need.” — Sai Baba

 

348. “Life in harmony with nature, the awareness of beauty, and the feeling of oneness with all that exists brings happiness that is self-contained.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

 

349. “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” — Rabindranath Tagore

 

350. “When things become overwhelming, it’s always the small things, the minute details of life that ground us back to reality and harmony.” — Unknown

 

## For Times of Peace and Serenity

 

### On Finding Peace

 

351. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” — Buddha

 

352. “Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” — Ronald Reagan

 

353. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” — Maha Ghosananda

 

354. “Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.” — Buddha

 

355. “Peace begins with a smile.” — Mother Teresa

 

356. “The world is quiet here.” — Lemony Snicket

 

357. “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” — Gerald Jampolsky

 

358. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” — Wayne W. Dyer

 

359. “When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.” — Roy T. Bennett

 

360. “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” — Thomas Jefferson

 

### On Serenity

 

361. “Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.” — Anonymous

 

362. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

 

363. “Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.” — Thomas Szasz

 

364. “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” — James Allen

 

365. “A quiet mind is able to hear intuition over fear.” — Rocsi Diaz

 

366. “Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.” — Paramahansa Yogananda

 

367. “Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.” — Anonymous

 

368. “A calm water is like a still soul.” — Lailah Gifty Akita

 

369. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” — Robert J. Sawyer

 

370. “Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, happiness and sadness.” — Anonymous

 

## For Times of Wisdom and Understanding

 

### On Gaining Wisdom

 

371. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

 

372. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

 

373. “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” — Albert Einstein

 

374. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

375. “We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” — Marcel Proust

 

376. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” — Rumi

 

377. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

 

378. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

 

379. “If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” — Michael Jordan

 

380. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” — David Starr Jordan

 

### On Understanding

 

381. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” — J.K. Rowling

 

382. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” — Marie Curie

 

383. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” — Albert Einstein

 

384. “If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” — Zen Proverb

 

385. “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

 

386. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung

 

387. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” — Leonardo da Vinci

 

388. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

 

389. “It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.” — Harry S. Truman

 

390. “The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.” — John Galsworthy

 

## For Times of Trust and Faith

 

### On Building Trust

 

391. “Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.” — Anonymous

 

392. “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” — George MacDonald

 

393. “You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.” — Anton Chekhov

 

394. “Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” — Stephen R. Covey

 

395. “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway

 

396. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” — Warren Buffett

 

397. “Trust is built with consistency.” — Lincoln Chafee

 

398. “A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.” — Baltasar Gracián

 

399. “Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother’s reflection.” — Lady Gaga

 

400. “The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” — Stephen King

 

### On Having Faith

 

401. “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

402. “Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.” — Rabindranath Tagore

 

403. “Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.” — Roy R. Gilson

 

404. “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

405. “Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.” — Voltaire

 

406. “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” — Paulo Coelho

 

407. “Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.” — Helen Keller

 

408. “Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.” — D. Elton Trueblood

 

409. “Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” — Saint Augustine

 

410. “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods.” — C.S. Lewis

 

## For Times of Creativity and Inspiration

 

### On Creativity

 

411. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein

 

412. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

 

413. “Creativity is just connecting things.” — Steve Jobs

 

414. “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” — William Plomer

 

415. “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.” — Pablo Picasso

 

416. “Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.” — Edward de Bono

 

417. “Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

 

418. “The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

 

419. “Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.” — Barbara Januszkiewicz

 

420. “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” — Sylvia Plath

 

### On Finding Inspiration

 

421. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso

 

422. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

 

423. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

424. “Don’t wait for inspiration. It comes while working.” — Henri Matisse

 

425. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

426. “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” — Deep Roy

 

427. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

428. “Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” — Madeleine L’Engle

 

429. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

430. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

 

## For Times of Transformation and Growth

 

### On Personal Transformation

 

431. “And suddenly you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” — Meister Eckhart

 

432. “The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change.” — C. JoyBell C.

 

433. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

434. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” — John C. Maxwell

 

435. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

436. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

 

437. “Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.” — Chuck Palahniuk

 

438. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw

 

439. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” — Steve Maraboli

 

440. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.” — Paulo Coelho

 

### On Growth

 

441. “Growth is the only evidence of life.” — John Henry Newman

 

442. “All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.” — Tony Robbins

 

443. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor E. Frankl

 

444. “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” — Benjamin Franklin

 

445. “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” — Mandy Hale

 

446. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” — Andy Rooney

 

447. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

448. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

 

449. “Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” — Morihei Ueshiba

 

450. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” — John F. Kennedy

 

## For Times of Simplicity and Minimalism

 

### On Simplicity

 

451. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci

 

452. “The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hofmann

 

453. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

 

454. “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

455. “Simplicity is the essence of happiness.” — Cedric Bledsoe

 

456. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.” — John Maeda

 

457. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.” — William Golding

 

458. “Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.” — Charles Dudley Warner

 

459. “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” — Lao Tzu

 

460. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu

 

### On Minimalism

 

461. “Less is more.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

 

462. “Make room for things that matter by removing everything that doesn’t.” — Brian Gardner

 

463. “The more you have, the more you are occupied. The less you have, the more free you are.” — Mother Teresa

 

464. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

465. “Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It’s your masterpiece after all.” — Nathan W. Morris

 

466. “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” — Socrates

 

467. “We don’t need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.” — Donald Horban

 

468. “The question of what you want to own is actually the question of how you want to live your life.” — Marie Kondo

 

469. “Minimalism is not about having less. It’s about making room for more of what matters.” — Anonymous

 

470. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” — E.F. Schumacher

 

## For Times of Purpose and Meaning

 

### On Finding Purpose

 

471. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

472. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

 

473. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain

 

474. “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs

 

475. “The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.” — Robert F. Kennedy

 

476. “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

477. “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

478. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton

 

479. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

 

480. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

### On Finding Meaning

 

481. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl

 

482. “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” — Viktor Frankl

 

483. “The more meaning we find in life, the more meaningful life becomes.” — Randolph J. Rogers

 

484. “When you know your ‘why’, your ‘what’ has more impact, because you’re walking in or towards your purpose.” — Michael Jr.

 

485. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” — Viktor Frankl

 

486. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” — Aristotle

 

487. “Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

488. “It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.” — Denis Waitley

 

489. “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.” — Søren Kierkegaard

 

490. “The person without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder.” — Thomas Carlyle

 

## For Times of Adventure and Risk

 

### On Adventure

 

491. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” — Amelia Earhart

 

492. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

 

493. “Adventure isn’t hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles in life.” — John Amatt

 

494. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” — Paulo Coelho

 

495. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

496. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” — George Eliot

 

497. “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!'” — Hunter S. Thompson

 

498. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” — T.S. Eliot

 

499. “To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one’s self.” — Søren Kierkegaard

 

500. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” — Mark Twain

 

### On Taking Risks

 

501. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” — Muhammad Ali

 

502. “Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” — Anonymous

 

503. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” — Mark Zuckerberg

 

504. “Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” — David Lloyd George

 

505. “Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting.” — Karl Wallenda

 

506. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” — Anaïs Nin

 

507. “You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” — Frederick Wilcox

 

508. “You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.” — Paulo Coelho

 

509. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” — Howard Schultz

 

510. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” — Jim Rohn

 

## For Times of Wonder and Curiosity

 

### On Wonder

 

511. “Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.” — Socrates

 

512. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — W.B. Yeats

 

513. “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.” — Albert Einstein

 

514. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

 

515. “All of life is a constant education.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

516. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” — Walt Streightiff

 

517. “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

518. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” — Neil Armstrong

 

519. “The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” — Ralph W. Sockman

 

520. “Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.” — Randy Pausch

 

### On Curiosity

 

521. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” — Albert Einstein

 

522. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William Arthur Ward

 

523. “Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.” — Arnold Edinborough

 

524. “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” — Albert Einstein

 

525. “Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

526. “Curiosity is the engine of achievement.” — Ken Robinson

 

527. “Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” — Marie Curie

 

528. “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” — Voltaire

 

529. “Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” — Bryant H. McGill

 

530. “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.” — Thomas Hobbes

 

## For Times of Humility and Grace

 

### On Humility

 

531. “Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.” — C.S. Lewis

 

532. “True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.” — Rick Warren

 

533. “The best of people is the one who humbles himself the more his rank increases.” — Prophet Muhammad

 

534. “In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.” — Winston Churchill

 

535. “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.” — Confucius

 

536. “Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.” — Thomas Merton

 

537. “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” — Helen Keller

 

538. “True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” — Socrates

 

539. “Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.” — Thomas Moore

 

540. “We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” — Rabindranath Tagore

 

### On Grace

 

541. “Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.” — Friedrich Schiller

 

542. “I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.” — Anne Lamott

 

543. “Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.” — Jackie Windspear

 

544. “Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

545. “Grace is available for each of us every day – our spiritual daily bread – but we’ve got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

 

546. “Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.” — Max Lucado

 

547. “Grace is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.” — Anonymous

 

548. “Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.” — Paul Tillich

 

549. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb

 

550. “Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.” — William Hazlitt

 

## For Times of Gratitude and Appreciation

 

### On Gratitude

 

551. “Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” — Henry Ward Beecher

 

552. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson

 

553. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” — Zig Ziglar

 

554. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

555. “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” — William James

 

556. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” — Melody Beattie

 

557. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” — Aesop

 

558. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” — Robert Brault

 

559. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama

 

560. “Gratitude is the memory of the heart.” — Jean Baptiste Massieu

 

### On Appreciation

 

561. “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” — Voltaire

 

562. “Appreciate what you have, who loves you and who cares for you. You’ll never know how much they mean to you until you lose them.” — Anonymous

 

563. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” — William James

 

564. “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” — Margaret Cousins

 

565. “When you smile at someone, nine times out of 10 the other person will smile back and you’ve made two people’s days brighter and better.” — Malcolm Kushner

 

566. “Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.” — Hausa Proverb

 

567. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy

 

568. “Appreciation is like an insurance policy. It has to be renewed every now and then.” — Dave McIntyre

 

569. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama

 

570. “Knowing how to appreciate life is the sweetness of life.” — Paulo Coelho

 

## For Times of Self-Discovery and Authenticity

 

### On Self-Discovery

 

571. “Know thyself.” — Ancient Greek aphorism

 

572. “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” — Carl Jung

 

573. “The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination… until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.” — Iyanla Vanzant

 

574. “Don’t spend all of your time trying to find yourself. Spend your time creating yourself into a person that you’ll be proud of.” — Sonya Parker

 

575. “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” — Carl Jung

 

576. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust

 

577. “I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

578. “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

579. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung

 

580. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.” — Lao Tzu

 

### On Authenticity

 

581. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

582. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.” — Brené Brown

 

583. “The authentic self is the soul made visible.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

 

584. “The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.” — Joseph Campbell

 

585. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde

 

586. “Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.” — Oliver James

 

587. “The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

 

588. “If you don’t live your life, then who will?” — Kate Winslet

 

589. “Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” — Allen Ginsberg

 

590. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” — Rita Mae Brown

 

## For Times of Connection and Community

 

### On Connection

 

591. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” — Brené Brown

 

592. “We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” — Herman Melville

 

593. “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen.” — Rachel Naomi Remen

 

594. “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” — Dale Carnegie

 

595. “Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.” — Rollo May

 

596. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” — Carl Jung

 

597. “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” — William James

 

598. “Sometimes reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” — Vera Nazarian

 

599. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” — Albert Schweitzer

 

600. “People are hardwired for connection.” — Brené Brown

 

### On Community

 

601. “Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” — Helen Keller

 

602. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead

 

603. “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” — Coretta Scott King

 

604. “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier

 

605. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa

 

606. “We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.” — Cicero

 

607. “Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” — Henry Ford

 

608. “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” — Goethe

 

609. “Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.” — Haniel Long

 

610. “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” — John Donne

 

## For Times of Courage and Fear

 

### On Overcoming Fear

 

611. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” — George Addair

 

612. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

613. “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.” — Japanese Proverb

 

614. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

615. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.” — Dale Carnegie

 

616. “Feel the fear and do it anyway.” — Susan Jeffers

 

617. “Fear is the brain’s way of saying that there is something important for you to overcome.” — Rachel Huber

 

618. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” — John Lennon

 

619. “Fear has two meanings: ‘Forget Everything And Run’ or ‘Face Everything And Rise.’ The choice is yours.” — Zig Ziglar

 

620. “Fear is temporary. Regret is forever.” — Anonymous

 

### On Developing Courage

 

621. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

 

622. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin

 

623. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

 

624. “Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne

 

625. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” — e.e. cummings

 

626. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” — Theodore Roosevelt

 

627. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” — Mark Twain

 

628. “It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” — Marianne Williamson

 

629. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” — Maya Angelou

 

630. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” — William Faulkner

 

## For Times of Resilience and Recovery

 

### On Resilience

 

631. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult

 

632. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

 

633. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” — Robert Jordan

 

634. “When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.” — Jaeda DeWalt

 

635. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” — Elizabeth Edwards

 

636. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” — Greg Kincaid

 

637. “The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.” — Woodrow Wilson

 

638. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.” — Steve Maraboli

 

639. “It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.” — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

 

640. “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” — Mary Holloway

 

### On Recovery

 

641. “Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.” — Demi Lovato

 

642. “Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.” — Anonymous

 

643. “My recovery from addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work – hard, painful work – but the help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from what once drove us to drink…” — Anthony Hopkins

 

644. “The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.” — Patricia Deegan

 

645. “Life is full of ups and downs. The trick is to enjoy the ups and have courage during the downs.” — Anonymous

 

646. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” — C.S. Lewis

 

647. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth

 

648. “There is no education like adversity.” — Benjamin Disraeli

 

649. “Recovery begins from the darkest moment.” — John Major

 

650. “Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.” — John Bradshaw

 

## For Times of Mindfulness and Presence

 

### On Mindfulness

 

651. “The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

652. “Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” — Sharon Salzberg

 

653. “The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

654. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.” — Mother Teresa

 

655. “Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

656. “The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

657. “Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” — Sylvia Boorstein

 

658. “Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

659. “The way to live in the present is to remember that ‘This too shall pass.’ When you experience joy, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ helps you savor the here and now. When you experience pain and sorrow, remembering that ‘This too shall pass’ reminds you that grief, like joy, is only temporary.” — Joey Green

 

660. “The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

### On Being Present

 

661. “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

662. “Life is available only in the present moment.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

663. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

664. “Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson

 

665. “Remember then: there is only one time that is important – Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

666. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.” — Eckhart Tolle

 

667. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” — Will Rogers

 

668. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” — Maya Angelou

 

669. “The meeting of two eternities, the past and the future… is precisely the present moment.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

670. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

 

## For Times of Solitude and Reflection

 

### On Solitude

 

671. “In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” — Laurence Sterne

 

672. “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

673. “Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” — Nikki Rowe

 

674. “Solitude matters, and for some people, it’s the air they breathe.” — Susan Cain

 

675. “Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.” — Katrina Kenison

 

676. “The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

677. “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” — Albert Camus

 

678. “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

679. “There is a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog.” — Drew Barrymore

 

680. “Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich

 

### On Reflection

 

681. “Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker

 

682. “Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.” — Richard Carlson

 

683. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” — Confucius

 

684. “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” — Thomas Paine

 

685. “There is one art of which people should be masters—the art of reflection.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 

686. “Time spent in self-reflection is never wasted—it is an intimate date with yourself.” — Dr. Paul TP Wong

 

687. “Reflection is looking back so that the view looking forward is even clearer.” — Unknown

 

688. “Honest self-reflection opens your mind to reprogramming, change, success, and freedom.” — Unknown

 

689. “Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” — Margaret J. Wheatley

 

690. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

 

## For Times of Joy and Celebration

 

### On Joy

 

691. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” — Joseph Campbell

 

692. “Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen

 

693. “Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.” — Karl Barth

 

694. “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” — Buddha

 

695. “Joy is not in things; it is in us.” — Richard Wagner

 

696. “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Christopher McCandless

 

697. “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” — Chuck Palahniuk

 

698. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh

 

699. “I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace—a connection to what matters.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

700. “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.” — Audre Lorde

 

### On Celebration

 

701. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

702. “Life is a celebration—of wonder, possibilities, and graciousness.” — Anonymous

 

703. “Celebrate what you want to see more of.” — Tom Peters

 

704. “Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit.” — Terrence Deal

 

705. “Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.” — Norman Lear

 

706. “Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let’s not be afraid to receive each day’s surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.” — Henri Nouwen

 

707. “Celebrate the small things and our lives become bigger than ever.” — Anonymous

 

708. “The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart: The secret anniversaries of the heart.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

709. “Take time to celebrate your efforts and achievements.” — Unknown

 

710. “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” — Frederick Keonig

 

## For Times of New Beginnings and Fresh Starts

 

### On New Beginnings

 

711. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca

 

712. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” — Desmond Tutu

 

713. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” — Buddha

 

714. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

 

715. “Although no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” — Carl Bard

 

716. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

 

717. “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” — Marsha Petrie Sue

 

718. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” — Saint Francis of Assisi

 

719. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” — Meister Eckhart

 

720. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

 

### On Fresh Starts

 

721. “No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again.” — Buddha

 

722. “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” — John Dewey

 

723. “A fresh start isn’t a new place, it’s a new mindset.” — Anonymous

 

724. “Each day is a fresh beginning. Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain, and despite old sorrow and older sinning, and troubles forecast, and possible pain, take heart with the day and begin again.” — Susan Coolidge

 

725. “You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” — Anonymous

 

726. “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

727. “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” — Doris Lessing

 

728. “The greatest power you possess in life is your understanding that life gives you a fresh start any moment you choose.” — Guy Finley

 

729. “Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough

 

730. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” — J.P. Morgan

 

## For Times of Patience and Endurance

 

### On Patience

 

731. “Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” — Joyce Meyer

 

732. “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle

 

733. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

734. “Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” — A.A. Milne

 

735. “Patience attracts happiness; it brings near that which is far.” — Swahili Proverb

 

736. “Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.” — Saint Francis de Sales

 

737. “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” — St. Augustine

 

738. “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” — John Quincy Adams

 

739. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” — Joyce Meyer

 

740. “All great achievements require time.” — Maya Angelou

 

### On Endurance

 

741. “Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.” — William Barclay

 

742. “Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” — Buddha

 

743. “What is to give light must endure burning.” — Viktor Frankl

 

744. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” — Jack London

 

745. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

746. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.” — Thomas Paine

 

747. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” — Robert Jordan

 

748. “The stronger the obstacle, the stronger we become.” — Ryan Holiday

 

749. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” — Chinese Proverb

 

750. “The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.” — Japanese Proverb

 

## For Times of Friendship and Loyalty

 

### On Deep Friendship

 

751. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” — William Shakespeare

 

752. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

 

753. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'” — C.S. Lewis

 

754. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

755. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” — David Tyson

 

756. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” — Ed Cunningham

 

757. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasgow

 

758. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau

 

759. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” — Woodrow Wilson

 

760. “True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island.” — Baltasar Gracián

 

### On Loyalty

 

761. “Loyalty is a two-way street. If I’m asking for it from you, then you’re getting it from me.” — Harvey Specter

 

762. “Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.” — Stefan Persson

 

763. “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain

 

764. “You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.” — Clarence Francis

 

765. “Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.” — Woodrow Wilson

 

766. “The only people I owe my loyalty to are those who never made me question theirs.” — Anonymous

 

767. “Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.” — Samuel Butler

 

768. “You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.” — Jeffrey Gitomer

 

769. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.” — Mario Puzo

 

770. “Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.” — Paulo Coelho

 

## For Times of Forgiveness and Letting Go

 

### On Forgiveness

 

771. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” — Lewis B. Smedes

 

772. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” — Mark Twain

 

773. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

774. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” — Desmond Tutu

 

775. “Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” — Hannah More

 

776. “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

777. “When you forgive, you in no way change the past—but you sure do change the future.” — Bernard Meltzer

 

778. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.” — Nelson Mandela

 

779. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” — Steve Maraboli

 

780. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

 

### On Letting Go

 

781. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hesse

 

782. “Let go of what has passed. Right now is a new beginning.” — Unknown

 

783. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” — C. JoyBell C.

 

784. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

785. “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

 

786. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” — Deepak Chopra

 

787. “You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” — Guy Finley

 

788. “Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living fully.” — Brenda Shoshanna

 

789. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” — Eckhart Tolle

 

790. “Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” — C. JoyBell C.

 

## For Times of Gratitude and Thanksgiving

 

### On Gratitude

 

791. “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.” — Zig Ziglar

 

792. “When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.” — Kristin Armstrong

 

793. “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” — Melody Beattie

 

794. “The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.” — Douglas Wood

 

795. “Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” — Amy Collette

 

796. “Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation.” — Sonja Lyubomirsky

 

797. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” — Steve Maraboli

 

798. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” — Melody Beattie

 

799. “Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.” — Doris Day

 

800. “It is not happiness that brings us gratitude. It is gratitude that brings us happiness.” — Anonymous

 

### On Thanksgiving

 

801. “Thanksgiving creates abundance.” — Ann Voskamp

 

802. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” — Cicero

 

803. “I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” — G.K. Chesterton

 

804. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” — Meister Eckhart

 

805. “Appreciate everything your associates do for the business. Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise.” — Sam Walton

 

806. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

 

807. “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” — Eckhart Tolle

 

808. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens

 

809. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson

 

810. “Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return.” — Ralph Marston

 

## For Times of Inspiration and Motivation

 

### On Inspiration

 

811. “Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” — Deep Roy

 

812. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London

 

813. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso

 

814. “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” — Pablo Picasso

 

815. “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.” — Jim Jarmusch

 

816. “Inspiration comes of working every day.” — Charles Baudelaire

 

817. “To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

 

818. “The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.” — Ovid

 

819. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” — Oprah Winfrey

 

820. “Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.” — Bob Dylan

 

### On Motivation

 

821. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela

 

822. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” — Jim Ryun

 

823. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain

 

824. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” — Zig Ziglar

 

825. “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

 

826. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” — Arthur Ashe

 

827. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

 

828. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

 

829. “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” — Booker T. Washington

 

830. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford

 

## For Times of Hardship and Struggle

 

### On Overcoming Hardship

 

831. “Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.” — Joel Osteen

 

832. “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” — Chinese Proverb

 

833. “Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.” — Publilius Syrus

 

834. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

 

835. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela

 

836. “The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.” — Vince Lombardi

 

837. “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.” — Bob Riley

 

838. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford

 

839. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” — Napoleon Hill

 

840. “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” — Seneca

 

### On Facing Struggles

 

841. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” — Buddha

 

842. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus

 

843. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” — Bernice Johnson Reagon

 

844. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” — Robert Tew

 

845. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” — Molière

 

846. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

 

847. “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” — Helen Keller

 

848. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.” — Charles Dickens

 

849. “The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” — Jesse Owens

 

850. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

## For Times of Loss and Grief

 

### On Coping with Loss

 

851. “What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller

 

852. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving

 

853. “The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.” — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

 

854. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II

 

855. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

856. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell

 

857. “When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.” — Unknown

 

858. “You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up.” — Anne Lamott

 

859. “The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” — Pierre Auguste Renoir

 

860. “Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” — Rumi

 

### On Healing from Grief

 

861. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” — Vicki Harrison

 

862. “Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.” — José N. Harris

 

863. “And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly.” — Maya Angelou

 

864. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi

 

865. “There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — A.A. Milne

 

866. “Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

 

867. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.” — Mariska Hargitay

 

868. “The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.” — Irving Berlin

 

869. “Grief is itself a medicine.” — William Cowper

 

870. “While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.” — Samuel Johnson

 

## For Times of Kindness and Generosity

 

### On Kindness

 

871. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” — Aesop

 

872. “Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

 

873. “Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” — Scott Adams

 

874. “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” — Lao Tzu

 

875. “Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” — Mark Twain

 

876. “A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” — William Arthur Ward

 

877. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” — Plato

 

878. “Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.” — Henry James

 

879. “The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.” — Mahatma Gandhi

 

880. “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” — Theodore Isaac Rubin

 

### On Generosity

 

881. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” — Anne Frank

 

882. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

 

883. “Give, but don’t allow yourself to be used. Love, but don’t allow your heart to be abused. Trust, but don’t be naive. Listen, but don’t lose your own voice.” — Anonymous

 

884. “The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.” — Carol Ryrie Brink

 

885. “Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” — Frank A. Clark

 

886. “Giving opens the way for receiving.” — Florence Scovel Shinn

 

887. “By giving, you not only benefit others, you benefit yourself and the entire world because we are all connected.” — Deepak Chopra

 

888. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” — Kahlil Gibran

 

889. “The most generous people are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.” — Carol Ryrie Brink

 

890. “True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations.” — Suze Orman

 

## For Times of Leadership and Responsibility

 

### On Leadership

 

891. “Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.” — Simon Sinek

 

892. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” — John C. Maxwell

 

893. “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” — Ronald Reagan

 

894. “A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” — Arnold H. Glasow

 

895. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy

 

896. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs

 

897. “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” — Warren Bennis

 

898. “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader

 

899. “Leadership is unlocking people’s potential to become better.” — Bill Bradley

 

900. “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” — John Quincy Adams

 

### On Responsibility

 

901. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” — Winston Churchill

 

902. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

903. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” — George Bernard Shaw

 

904. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” — Sigmund Freud

 

905. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” — Abraham Lincoln

 

906. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” — Denis Waitley

 

907. “Take responsibility: for your thoughts, your actions, your life, and you’ll take power over your destiny.” — Anonymous

 

908. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

909. “The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.” — Hal Elrod

 

910. “It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.” — Molière

 

## For Times of Wisdom and Understanding

 

### On Wisdom

 

911. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

 

912. “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” — Albert Einstein

 

913. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” — Confucius

 

914. “The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” — Aristotle

 

915. “A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

 

916. “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

 

917. “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” — Claude Levi-Strauss

 

918. “Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” — Doug Larson

 

919. “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” — Sandra Carey

 

920. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle

 

### On Understanding

 

921. “Understanding is a two-way street.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

922. “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius

 

923. “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” — Leonardo da Vinci

 

924. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” — Albert Einstein

 

925. “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” — Marie Curie

 

926. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” — J.K. Rowling

 

927. “If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” — Zen Proverb

 

928. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” — Carl Jung

 

929. “The highest result of education is tolerance.” — Helen Keller

 

930. “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” — Stephen R. Covey

 

## For Times of Transition and Change

 

### On Embracing Change

 

931. “Change is the only constant in life.” — Heraclitus

 

932. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” — Lao Tzu

 

933. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” — John C. Maxwell

 

934. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein

 

935. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

 

936. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” — Barack Obama

 

937. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” — Leo Tolstoy

 

938. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” — George Bernard Shaw

 

939. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou

 

940. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates

 

### On Navigating Transitions

 

941. “In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” — Sun Tzu

 

942. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin

 

943. “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” — Steve Jobs

 

944. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts

 

945. “Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.” — Fred Rogers

 

946. “Life transitions are times for compassionate self-redefinition.” — Linda Rossetti

 

947. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” — Marilyn Monroe

 

948. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell

 

949. “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

950. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

 

## For Times of Inner Peace and Contentment

 

### On Finding Inner Peace

 

951. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” — Buddha

 

952. “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

953. “Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” — Dalai Lama

 

954. “Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

955. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.” — Wayne W. Dyer

 

956. “If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” — Lao Tzu

 

957. “Peace is liberty in tranquility.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

958. “When you make peace with yourself, you make peace with the world.” — Maha Ghosananda

 

959. “Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.” — Robert J. Sawyer

 

960. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

### On Contentment

 

961. “Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” — Lao Tzu

 

962. “Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.” — Anonymous

 

963. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha

 

964. “Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.” — Pearl S. Buck

 

965. “The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.” — Lin Yutang

 

966. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” — Plato

 

967. “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates

 

968. “When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes—I already have everything that I really need.'” — Dalai Lama

 

969. “He who is contented is rich.” — Lao Tzu

 

970. “True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.” — G.K. Chesterton

 

## For Times of Purpose and Meaning

 

### On Finding Purpose

 

971. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

972. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

 

973. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.” — Albert Schweitzer

 

974. “You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” — Steve Maraboli

 

975. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain

 

976. “Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.” — Buddha

 

977. “When you find your WHY, you don’t hit snooze no more!” — Eric Thomas

 

978. “Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” — Washington Irving

 

979. “The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.” — Barbara Hall

 

980. “The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.” — Michel de Montaigne

 

### On Finding Meaning

 

981. “Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.” — Viktor Frankl

 

982. “Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” — Viktor Frankl

 

983. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

 

984. “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” — Anonymous

 

985. “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” — Seneca

 

986. “The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.” — Joseph Campbell

 

987. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Søren Kierkegaard

 

988. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn

 

989. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” — Marcus Aurelius

 

990. “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

## For Times of Final Words of Encouragement

 

### On Courage and Strength

 

991. “Be bold. Be brave. Be courageous.” — Joshua 1:9

 

992. “You are stronger than you know, more capable than you ever dreamed, and you are loved more than you could possibly imagine.” — Anonymous

 

993. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela

 

994. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” — Steve Jobs

 

995. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” — Paulo Coelho

 

996. “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” — Albert Einstein

 

997. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

 

998. “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein

 

999. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller

 

1000. “Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.” — Confucius

 

## Conclusion

 

This collection of 1,000 messages, quotes, and sayings is designed to be your companion throughout life’s journey. Whether you’re experiencing moments of triumph or periods of challenge, may these words of wisdom provide comfort, inspiration, and guidance.

 

Remember that words have power—they can heal, motivate, comfort, and inspire. They remind us that we are not alone in our experiences and that others have navigated similar paths. Keep these messages close to your heart, and let them light your way through both the good times and the bad.