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21 Slow Down Quotes About Patience

21 Slow Down Quotes About Patience

Someone once said that patience was a virtue. But why? Well, when you are patient, you let the world come to you in the way that it is supposed to. Being patient goes way beyond that however. If you really take the time to be patient, you can see your dreams and goals through all the way to the end. So, dive into these quotes about patience for some great perspective on taking a slower more meaningful path. 

Our attention span is shot. We’ve all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don’t have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD – Too Busy Disorder. | Ellen DeGeneres











Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience – waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking. | Gary Paulsen











Our patience will achieve more than our force. | Edmund Burke











Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. | Aristotle











Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. | Ralph Waldo Emerson











Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. | Helen Keller











Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. | Hal Borland











The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. | John Piper











We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. | Malcolm X











Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less. | Mother Teresa











Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. | Victor Hugo











Patience is a conquering virtue.  | Geoffrey Chaucer











The greatest prayer is patience. | Gautama Buddha











Even a snail will eventually reach its destination. | Gail Tsukiyama











No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. | Lewis Carroll











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











The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. | Leo Tolstoy











Genius is eternal patience. | Michelangelo Buonarroti











Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers. | Jarod Kintz











And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough. | William Faulkner











Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free. | Shannon L. Alder

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24 Heartwarming Long Distance Quotes

24 Heartwarming Long Distance Quotes

Long distance can be one of the hardest things there is out there. The space and time in between you and your partner can truly challenge your relationship. But if you really stick it out, the distance can be the thing that actually makes you stronger. Dive into these heartwarming long distance quotes to gain some perspective on distance in relationships. 

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.

Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

Jodi Picoult

The distance between you and me disappears with us.

J.R. Rim

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving.

Paulo Coelho

Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again.

Donna Lynn Hope

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Robert Hass

With good reason, love’s messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.

Diane Wolkstein

I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.

Steve Maraboli

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

Elizabeth Gilbert

We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn’t ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew.

Heidi Jon Schmidt

I’m impressed when men go the distance to show they give a damn. That says nothing about the woman and everything about the man.

Donna Lynn Hope

Opportunistic relationships can hardly be kept constant. The acquaintance of honorable people, even at a distance, does not add flowers in times of warmth and does not change its leaves in times of cold: it continues unfading through the four seasons, becomes increasingly stable as it passes through ease and danger.

Sun Tzu

One way or another, I’ll watch her from a distance, silently and wihtout her knowledge, if that’s what it takes. And no matter how long you live–I’ll be around when you’re gone. I get to spend my entire life either with Laurel, or watching over her while she’s with someone else. Bliss or torture–there’s really no middle ground.

Aprilynne Pike

The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to talk with each other eye into eye, not able to feel each others touch; makes it difficult for a Long Distance Relationship to work.

Abhijeet Sawant

When two hearts are meant for each other no distance is so far, no time is so long and no other love can break them apart.

Yusuf Islam

She had missed him so long now, that the feeling had become a part of her. As each day passed, the missing distanced itself from her heart. One day she woke, and realized the missing was there but the pain was gone. Missing without pain is tolerable. Pain linked to heartache is intolerable.

Coco J. Ginger

Most of us wander in and out of one another’s lives until not death, but distance, does us part–time and space and the heart’s weariness are the blander executioners of human connection.

Gail Caldwell

I began to wonder if writers don’t choose to love long-distance, a sure way of blending passion and prose. The love letter seems perfectly suited to the contradiction of a writer’s life… the love letter may be the emblem of a vocation that demands solitude but desires communication.

Cathy N. Davidson

Our lives were now worlds apart, separated by time, circumstance, and the unbridgeable chasm of money.

Travis Luedke

With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment at the airport when I would stand there waiting for him to arrive, wondering, Will I still know him? Will he still know me?

Elizabeth Gilbert

There I was, fevered from the bitterness of your absence, cold, desperate for your being remedy; I would give every part of my soul to have you back, even the broken pieces of I.

Mookhatchka Khalid

Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You’ll both be stronger as a result.

Craig M. Mullaney

It’s easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh’s kind of bossy–then I had to basically start liking a whole different person.

John Green

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When You Fight For What You Believe In

Fight For What You Believe In

5 years ago, I started something that I had no idea how much it would impact the rest of my life. 5 years ago I started The Better Man Project and it permanently altered my journey.

I could tell you the story of how all of this started, the lessons I learned along the way or the dreams I have about the future…

But tonight I want to tell you a very different story. I want to tell you a story that is relevant to my life right now in this moment and a lesson that was dropped on me today.

I want to tell you a story of why you should fight for what you believe in.

The challenges that face each of us in this life are endless. They come at us every single day and we are seemingly battered with them constantly until we finally learn our lesson. But something mighty strange happens when we take a stand for ourselves, for others, and for our dreams.

When we willingly face the heat and come to a place of acceptance of the path before us, despite any obstacles or hardships that may come our way, we maintain our hunger.

That bite.

That hunger to continue moving forward.

That ability to be able to say to yourself, “No matter what comes my way I am going to carry on until I see this thing all the way through.”

I do not think I’m particularly gifted or incredibly talented. But what I do believe is that I have an undying will to continue moving forward no matter what has happened in my life.

There have been times where I have been driven down to my knees and yet I keep getting up time after time after time. No matter the circumstance, I am willing to try again because I know within my heart that there is something on the other side of whatever is going on in the current moment.

This reality was not always that easy to accept because before October I never really had accomplished a huge dream I had created for myself.

So I know what it’s like to be in a place of wondering if you can really do it. But what I can tell you, with a complete certainty in my heart, is that if you continue chasing after that dream you have in your mind you will eventually see it through.

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Everyone may doubt you. The haters will voice their opinion. Negativity will crawl into your mind and you will find yourself pulling off the path from time to time. But you must always maintain that you will continue no matter what it takes.

Because when you step into that moment, it really isn’t about accomplishing whatever it is that you set out to do.

It’s about what that moment gives you.

That moment gives you an understanding of who you had to become in order to achieve that dream. But more importantly…

That moment gives you the faith and willingness to step into other dreams.

When you accomplish something that you spent your entire life trying to create, you start looking at everything else you thought you could do with fresher eyes and a hunger to make it happen.

That’s what happens when you fight for what you believe in.

That’s what happens when you believe in yourself.

The Better Man Project started off as a very humble attempt to do something for 30 days because I had never done anything before that came close to achieving something in that timeframe. That 30 day commitment ended up being the thing that changed my entire life.

I have no idea where I would be right now if I didn’t follow through with that month long decision.

But it was the best decision I’ve ever made…and in this moment…sitting here writing to you 5 years later…

I could be more proud and grateful for that 21 year old kid making a decision to finally make something of himself.

I can be proud of that.

Evan Sanders

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The Best Type Of Friends: True Friends Quotes

True Friends Quotes

True friends are hard to come by. But when you do find them, never let them go. Never let a true friendship die for silly reasons. The world is full of fake things, but friendship, now that’s the real good stuff. Dive into these true friends quotes to discover more about friendship and why it matters so much. 

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

Sarah Dessen

A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.

Lauren Oliver

Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

Paulo Coelho

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.

Helen Keller

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Alice Walker

Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.

Toni Morrison

When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, ‘Damn, that was fun’.

Groucho Marx

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Richelle Mead

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anaïs Nin

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Elbert Hubbard

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend

Albert Camus

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Mahatma Gandhi

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

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Perfect Quotes About Finding Happiness

Quotes About Finding Happiness

Happiness is an inside job. We have to do the work in order to be able to create the right type of environment for happiness to enter into our lives. But that doesn’t mean avoiding all of the negativity out there. It actually means diving in head first to what you are scared of, negative or not, and taking the compassion in your heart to that space. If you can do that, you are doing the work necessary for a happy life. It’s not all going to be easy, but it’s going to be worth it. Dive into these quotes about finding happiness for some great perspective. 

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins–of happiness and unhappiness.

Virginia Woolf

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens

Happiness must be grown in one’s own garden.

Mary Engelbreit

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Marie Rutkoski

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren’t happy. Something’s missing.

Ray Bradbury

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

Oprah Winfrey

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

Ayad Akhtar

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Max Planck

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

Albert Camus

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

Allison Winn Scotch

The strength of a man isn’t seen in the power of his arms. It’s seen in the love with which he EMBRACES you.

Steve Maraboli

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.

Dale Carnegie

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn’t it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.

Nenia Campbell

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Helen Keller

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

“Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.”

Kristina McMorris

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, –will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, –or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

Dalai Lama XIV

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

Amit Ray

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Happy Quotes About Life

Happy Quotes About Life

Life is too short to be unhappy all the time. Life is far too short to spend it getting in your own way and destroying the amazing life you are capable of living. It’s time to find some happiness and more importantly, live in such a way that makes you happy. Friends. Family. Relationships. The works. Dive into these happy quotes about life for some great motivation and inspiration for being happy. 

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

Carl Jung

“Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.”

Gretchen Rubin

“I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.”

Isabel Allende

“We need to be our own guide. We can live a much more peaceful and happy life if we think about positive growth of ourselves and others, and its effects on the universe.”

Hina Hashmi

“We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.”

Paul Bloom

“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.”

Charles M. Schwab

“Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.”

Mandy Hale

“The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.”

Richelle E. Goodrich

“Lord, I thank you for answering my prayers at the right time.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

“Be patient with the faults of others. Forgive quickly to have a happy soul and life.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

“Don’t be among those who give up early and regret later.”

Raaz Ojha

“Most people think the more money, luxury or fame they have, the more successful they are; but I think that the true sign of success depends on how many positive emotions they experience each day.”

Maddy Malhotra

“You deserved to be loved, wait for your soulmate. Be joyful and happy together.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

“Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live.”

Anne Sweeney

“What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when you bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.”

Henry David Thoreau

“You have the grace for happy life.”

Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you start each day happy and treat people with more kindness, it determines the way you live your day. It’s all about your choices!”

Wesam Fawzi

“When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.”

Diana Rose Morcilla

“Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you.”

Mandy Hale

“Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn’t we give ourselves permission to thrive?”

Mandy Hale

“If you aren’t happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.”

Maddy Malhotra

“If you have to stop and ask yourself ‘Am I happy?’ you aren’t, because when you are you will feel it and know it”

Heather Romiti

“The happiest, healthiest, and longest lasting relationships happen when each partner is secure and whole within themselves.”

Pamela Cummins

“Be Original. Follow your dreams. The worst possible thing for you to do in life is give up what makes you happy.”

Love The Stacks Bookstore

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I Want You Quotes

I Want You Quotes

To take this journey and not fall deeply and madly in love…well what’s the point of that? What’s the point of not sharing this path with someone else who you can put your heart into fully?I don’t really see one there. Falling in love is one of the best and most incredibly feelings in the world. It changes you. It beings life out in you. It makes you the best version of yourself. Sometimes there can be some madness to it but all in all, it makes this life seriously worth living. Dive into these I want you quotes to hear what some people around the world have to say. 

She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.

Steve Maraboli

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Stephen Chbosky

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

Marilyn Monroe

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Rainbow Rowell

Love is giving someone the power to destroy you…but trusting them not to.

Unknown

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda

You may look into your mirror and see flaws, but someone else looks at you, and only sees beauty.

Unknown

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

When love is not madness it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine.

Shakieb Orgunwall

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment

Sarah Dessen

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

James Baldwin

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

When you meet the one who changes the way your heart beats, dance with them to that rhythm for as long as the song lasts

Kirk Diedrich

“I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.”

Stephanie Perkins

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred Tennyson

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A. A. Milne

I love you not because of anything you have, but because of something that I feel when I’m near you.

Unknown

If I knew I would be so happy one day, I would have searched for you harder and found you before so that I could spend more time with you.

Sal Dormant

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Tired Quotes: Pick Yourself Back Up

Tired Quotes

We get tired from time to time. We get worn out and burnt straight into the ground. It’s hard to recover when you think everything is going downhill and you don’t see any possible way of things turning up. Dive into these tired quotes to gain some perspective on it all and know that you aren’t alone. 

She felt dirty, ugly and tired. She felt like a marshmallow heading into a house fire armed with chocolate and graham crackers.

Benjamin R. Smith

She was always tired, these days. She put on one of those smiles that wasn’t really a smile at all, and they went on.

Jojo Moyes

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

Arthur Conan Doyle

From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms… mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.

Jaeda DeWalt

I’m smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.

John Ciardi

If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

Janet Fitch

But I don’t feel like dealing because dealing requires too much energy, and energy is what I lack.

Daisy Whitney

Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON’T PANIC

Mark Gorman

I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I’m being drowned by some kind of black wave.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I’m sleepy, exhausted, and tired. I must be in love.

Jarod Kintz

Never overestimate the strength of the torchbearer’s arm, for even the strongest arms grow weary.

A.J. Darkholme

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn’t missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.

François Lelord

I couldn’t decide whether to take a nap or not, so I did what I always do when thinking over a decision—I slept on it.

Jarod Kintz

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Leo Buscaglia

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Mark Twain

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.

Fernando Pessoa

You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable.

Donovan

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Muscle-work can only make one weary—it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

Jefferson Smith

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn’t sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

Sarah Dessen

Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Corrie ten Boom

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Quote About Being Happy

Quote About Being Happy

It seems like the main goal of everyone out there is to live a life of happiness. But what does that actually mean? What does it mean to live a happy life – one full of enjoyment, connection, and laughter? How can we truly go about that and feel fulfilled? Dive into a quote about being happy or two to get some perspective. Maybe it will give you a good idea of which way to head?

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”

James Dean

“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.”

Alan Cohen

“Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.”

Peter Hagerty

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

Maya Angelou

“We forge the chains we wear in life.”

Charles Dickens

“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”

Lao Tzu

“Everything is a gift of the universe–even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.”

Ken Keyes Jr.

“Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.”

Chinese Proverb

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”

Andrew Carnegie

“If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.”

Stephen Covey

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”

Denis Waitley

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”

Greg Anderson

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

Buddha

“In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.”

Buddha

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.”

Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller

“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.”

Dan Millman

“Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

Charles Dickens

“Life is too short not to say how you feel to the people you love.”

Kristina McMorris

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.”

John Burroughs

“I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life’s too short. If you ever find a man you love, don’t waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, ‘I love you. How about getting married?”

Betty Smith

“Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love… love was worth dying for. Worth living for, too.”

J.R. Ward

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Dalai Lama

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34 Quotes On Moving On

Quotes On Moving On

Things change. People change. Situations change. 

That’s just a natural part of life. But we have to move on. We have to move forward with our lives or we will just be stuck in the past endlessly. That can be mental prison of it’s own. We must move forward with our future or else we will never create it. Dive into these quotes on moving on for some inspiration to keep moving on with your life. 

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.

Fridtjof Nansen

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive–I’ll find love again.

Paulo Coelho

The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

Milan Kundera

When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You have removed enough; soon the pure water will flow,” said Buddha.

Deepak Chopra

“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

J.R.R. Tolkien

When you love someone, it’s never over,’ Dr. Carruthers replied gently. ‘You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.

Elizabeth Chandler

You can’t save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can’t save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Move, hunt, kill. Like lather, rinse, and repeat.

Kendare Blake

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.

Haruki Murakami

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

Steve Maraboli

I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand.

Veronica Roth

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.

Sun Tzu

Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.

David Levithan

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

Jay Asher

Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.

Ramon Bautista

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

Douglas Adams

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

Brian Andreas

You cannot change your journey if you are unwilling to move at all.

Ally Condie

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

E.M. Forster

Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give… it’s about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.

Sylvester Stallone

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won’t happen for me. I won’t survive you, Eva.

Sylvia Day

Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.

Archimedes

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

Miranda July

Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business.

J.K. Rowling

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