Rediscovering Lost Inspirational Quotes: A Journey to Motivation

"Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living."

- Alysha Speer

"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself."

- Mandy Hale

"“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”"

- Vivian Greene

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"I wasn’t searching for something or someone….I was searching for me."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"“The fears we don’t face become our limits.”"

- Amy Elizabeth

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

- Babe Ruth

"Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves."

- Henry David Thoreau

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent van Gogh

"“Happiness is the highest form of health.”"

- Dalai Lama

"“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”"

- Albert Einstein

"It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."

- Dalai Lama

"“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”"

- Walt Disney

"Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you."

- Ranata Suzuki

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”"

- Robert H. Schuller

"I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life."

- Melody Beattie

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"“Life is 10% what you experience and 90% how you respond to it.”"

- Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

"It doesn’t matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again. Once you’ve started to leave, you will run your whole life."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."

- Joseph Campbell

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"“To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.”"

- Alex Ebert

"“To live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.”"

- Albert Einstein

"“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”"

- Og Mandino

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change."

- Ritu Ghatourey

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

- Carl Jung

"Any action is often better than no action… If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing."

- Eckhart Tolle

"If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong."

- Masaru Emoto

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

- E.M. Forster

"If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place."

- Nora Roberts

"I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."

- Robin Williams

"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out."

- Katherine Dunham

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason."

- Alain de Botton

"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself."

- Alan Alda

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I’m proud of what I am and who I am.'"

- Mariah Carey

"“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"Dream, struggle, create, prevail. Be daring. Be brave. Be loving. Be compassionate. Be strong. Be brilliant. Be beautiful."

- Caterina Fake

"When you finally accept that it’s OK not to have answers and it’s OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being."

- Winona Ryder

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere."

- Michel de Montaigne

"It is those who get lost, who find the new ways."

- Nils Kjaer

"Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions."

- Mark Twain

"Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart."

- Basil Rathbone

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever."

- Professor X

"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."

- Swami Sivananda

"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost."

- Erol Ozan

"Getting lost is just another way of saying 'going exploring.'"

- Justina Chen Headley

"It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs…..They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all."

- Ranata Suzuki

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."

- Albus Dumbledore

"You didn't just find a self out there waiting — you had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be."

- Brit Bennett

"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."

- Maimonides

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

- The Wizard of Oz

"“Anger, resentment, and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others. It only changes yours.”"

- Shannon L. Alder

"“The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”"

- Plato

"“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”"

- Henry Rollins

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

- Will Rogers

"“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.”"

- Elbert Hubbard

"“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”"

- Maimonides

"“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”"

- Marilyn Monroe

"“Negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.”"

- Eckhart Tolle

"“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.”"

- Demi Lovato

"“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”"

- C.S. Lewis

"“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”"

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”"

- Winston Churchill

"“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.”"

- Theodore Roosevelt

"“Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.”"

- John Wooden

"“You don’t have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up.”"

- Gilbert Baker

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony."

- Douglas Coupland

"When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out. I ask myself, “How does this feel? What do I want my life to be like?”"

- Kim Cattrall

"Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have."

- Dale Carnegie

"A tree that is unbending is usually broken."

- Lao Tzu

"“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called, ‘All The Things That Could Go Wrong.”"

- Marianne Williamson

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"It can take years to mold a dream. It takes only a fraction of a second for it to be shattered."

- Mary E. Pearson

"“Self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”"

- Tom Robbins

"You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in the world."

- S.E. Hinton

"We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost."

- Erich Maria Remarque

"“Everything you can imagine is real.”"

- Pablo Picasso

"You get used to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves."

- Rachel Ward

"But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens."

"You’ll never leave where you are until you decide where you’d rather be."

"I must bring them all up to be useful- to depend upon themselves; there is not a moment to be lost, and not a moment shall be lost; I will do my best and trust to God."

"I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on."

"Paradise lost is sometimes Heaven found."

"We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself."

"“You learn more from failure than from success.”"

"If I’m lost, I am lost, I don’t care! Shall I put the sock on?"

"The boy was crying now. Not that there was any new or sudden sorrow. There just seemed to be nothing else to fill up the vast lostness of the moment."

"You have lost the strike! And now what are you going to do about it?"

"If I’d lost the sword, we should never have found you again."

"Everywhere we go and move on and change, something’s lost--something’s left behind. You can’t ever quite repeat anything, and I’ve been so yours, here--"

"Tom, Tom, we’re lost! we’re lost! We never can get out of this awful place! Oh, why did we ever leave the others!"