There comes a point in our lives, where we must focus on ourselves and create our own happiness in spite of all the negativity and chaos that is in the world. Whenever you feel down and like you can’t go on, read these quotes that will immediately change your perspective on life.
ON LIFE:
1. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need tomorrow.” – Robert Tew
2. “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
—John Lennon
3. “As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” – Steve Maraboli
4. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”
—Stephen Hawking
ON PERSPECTIVE
5. “The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.” – Maya Angelou
6. “The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before your death.” – Osho
7. “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” – Rumi
8. “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.” – Morticia Addams
ON CHARACTER
9. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
11. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein
12. “A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand men in battle”. – Buddha
ON POTENTIAL
13. “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde
14. “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
15. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
16. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
17. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
18. “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Harold Whitman
19. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein
20. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
