I have always had this weird obsession with quotes. I feel as if though they’re speaking to me, as if they they can somehow see through my soul and tell me exactly what I need to hear. So here, for you, I put together a collection of a few that blew my mind along the years. And on that note, I hope they speak to you as they have spoken to me.
1. We scream out insecurities and whisper out apologies, and that is why this world will always be so wrong.
2. It’s alright to lose your pride over something you love, but never lose something you love over your pride.
3. “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.” –Wayne Dyer
4. Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them.
5. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” –Carl Gustav Jung
6. When someone gives you their time, they are giving you a portion of their life that they will never get back. It’s one of the most precious gifts you can receive. Don’t waste it.
7. “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” -Alexander Pope
8. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Rita Mae Brown
9. You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
10. Nothing lasts forever; so live it up, drink it down, avoid the negativity, take chances and never regret because at one point it was what you wanted.
11. Today is the Tomorrow we worried about Yesterday.
12. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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
13. “You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.” –Richelle Mead
14. Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
15. True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated.
16. Instead of judging people by their past, stand by them and help repair their future.
17. Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
18. Just because you have a past with someone, doesn’t mean you should have a future with them.
19. Regret is just an excuse to wallow in self-pity without feeling selfish.
20. Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is these losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities.
21. Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
22. Jealousy is the art of counting someone else blessings instead of your own. Don’t waste your time on jealousy. The only person you’re competing against is yourself.
23. In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.
24. Change has considerable psychological impact on the mind. To the fearful it’s threatening because things may get worse. To the hopeful it’s encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it’s inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
25. Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
26. Some relationships are like glass; It’s better to leave it broken, than to hurt yourself more by trying to put it back together.
27. Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.
28. You know you’ve found true love when you catch yourself falling in love with the same person over and over again.
29. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
30. “A pebble in the water makes a ripple effect, every action in this world will bear a consequence.” -Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
31. The happiness that I feel is unlike any happiness I have ever experienced. But the sadness that consumes me during the long periods when the happiness is gone is unlike any sadness I’ve ever had, too. And I can’t decide which one is more affecting….
32. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Don’t expect others to read your mind, and don’t play games with their heads and hearts. Don’t tell half-truths and expect people to trust you when the full truth comes out. Half-truths are no better than lies. And don’t ignore someone you care about, because lack of concern hurts more than angry words.
33. A man’s true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others.
34. Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
35. Too often, the thing we want the most is the thing we can’t have. Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. Desire can wreck our lives, but as tough as wanting something can be, the people who suffer the most are those who don’t know what they want.
36. Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. Fearless is having fears, having doubts… lots of them. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
37. Distance never separates any relation; closeness never builds any relation. If feelings are true and honest, then relation will always remain there.
38. The reason most people fall instead of succeed is they trade in what they want most for what they want at the moment.
39. Friendship is easily turned into love, but love is very hard to turn back into friendship.
40. There’s never an ending, just new beginnings. The past makes who you are, but won’t determine who you’ll be. You choose who you’ll become.
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