100+ Inspirational Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Drive

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end."

- Michelle Obama

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"Dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."

- Bruce Lee

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

- Muhammad Ali

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"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. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it."

- Steve Jobs

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

- Kevyn Aucoin

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

- Ronald Reagan

"Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!"

- Paul J. Meyer

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

- ANNE FRANK

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

- Shel Silverstein

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"Alone we can do little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."

- Glinda the Good Witch

"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

- Mother Teresa

"What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not."

- Rupi Kaur

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Always show more kindness than seems necessary because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know."

- Colin Powell

"The more you love your decisions, the less you need others to love them."

- Lisa Messenger

"Think like a Queen. A Queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

- Oprah

"I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one."

- Calamity Jane

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

- Ben Okri

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

- Robert H. Schuller

"Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars."

- Les Brown

"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

- Desmond Tutu

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

- Swami Sivananda

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."

- Mother Teresa

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

- Aesop

"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

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

- Francis of Assisi

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

- Edith Wharton

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

- Jackson Brown Jr.

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Buddha

"If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride - and never quit, you'll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards."

- Bear Bryant

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

- Martin Luther

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

- Tony Robbins

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

- Elie Wiesel

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

- Albert Einstein

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."

- Dr. Seuss

"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t."

- Steve Maraboli

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Y. Davis

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t."

- Bill Nye

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Mark Twain

"We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- e.e. cummings

"If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want."

- Kevin Ngo

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create."

- Leonard I. Sweet

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

- Jim Rohn

"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

- Les Brown

"In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"We become what we think about most of the time."

- Earl Nightingale

"Life is very interesting…in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"Life is a daring adventure or it is nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them."

- Viola Davis

"Success is falling nine times and getting up 10."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"How dare you settle for less when the world made it so easy for you to be remarkable?"

- Seth Godin

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them."

- Albert Einstein

"And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"Don’t worry about failure, you only have to be right once."

- Drew Houston

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."

- Vernon Sanders Law

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."

- Abraham Lincoln

"I’m not going to continue knocking on that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- W.P. Kinsella

"For the great doesn’t happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

- Babe Ruth

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennet Henry

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not."

- Deepak Chopra

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find the truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor Frankl

"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."

- Og Mandino

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Be persistent and never give up hope."

- George Lucas

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail."

- Charles Kettering

"Keep your face towards the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"The best way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love."

- Bob Marley

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’m not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn’t open for me. I’m going to create my own door and walk through that."

- Ava DuVernay

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think."

- Olivia Newton John

"Next time, ask ‘What’s the worst that will happen?’ Then push yourself a little further than you dare."

- Audre Lorde

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality."

- Malala Yousafzai

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"There are no regrets in life. Just lessons."

- Jennifer Aniston

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

"In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit."

- Anne Frank

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

- Robert Byrne

"Take the time to enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Brault

"Life has got those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"You’ve got to be in it to win it."

- Tony Robbins

"If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people."

- Leonardo DiCaprio

"You can be everything. You can be the infinite amount of things that people are."

- Kesha

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone."

- Reba McEntire

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

- Stephanie Perkins

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

- Vernon Howard

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?"

- Max Levchin

"You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave."

- Margaret Atwood

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

- Virginia Woolf

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"It’s always better to shock people and change people’s expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do."

- Jonah Hill

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"I go to seek a Great Perhaps."

- Francois Rabelais

"Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments."

- Rose Kennedy

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much."

- William Hazlitt

"There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?"

- Zendaya

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

- Margaret Mead

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

- Duke Ellington

"You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens."

- Mandy Hale

"Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully."

- Albert Camus

"Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful."

- Annette Funicello

"So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow."

- Rainbow Rowell

"There’s love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

"Don’t take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves."

- Halle Bailey

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

- Charles Kettering

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

- John Lennon

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Khalil Gibran

"It’s amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."

- John Guare

"If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of."

- Bruce Lee

"It’s a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."

- Danny Boyle

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders."

- Lao Tzu

"The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience."

- Frank Herbert

"Give light and people will find the way."

- Ella Baker

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

- Anais Nin

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

- Isaac Newton

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings."

- Gustave Flaubert

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"

- Robert Browning

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

- Maya Angelou

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

- J.K. Rowling

"Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others attracted to them."

- Sofia Vergara

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

- J.M. Barrie

"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together."

- Charles Dickens

"We pass through this world but once."

- Stephen Jay Gould

"If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light."

- Lady Gaga

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

- C.S. Lewis

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

- Stephen Chbosky

"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."

"Whether through work or love or art, life becomes more meaningful whenever we take responsibility for something or someone. Responsibility is not always pleasurable or even positive, but it is purposeful."

"Always remember you are BRAVER than you believe, STRONGER than you seem, SMARTER than you think & LOVED more than you know."

"May you be free from harm. May you be strong and healthy. May you be happy. May you live a life filled with ease."

"The foundation of your wellness journey is presence – quieting the chatter in your head, feeling yourself in the moment and knowing you are okay. Presence leads to clarity, and ultimately, to the joy of being alive. Be present. Let go of yesterday. Put thoughts of tomorrow at bay. You are here. Now. Full of energy. Flooded with calm. Engaged in this one and only moment."

"A strong woman knows she has strength enough for the journey, but a woman of strength knows it is in the journey where she will become strong."

"And then I realized that to be more alive I had to be less afraid so I did it…I lost my fear and gained my whole life."

"A strong person is not the one who doesn’t fall down and doesn’t cry. The strong person falls, cries, and then gets up and keeps going."