32 Wonderful Life Quotes You Probably Need Today

Let’s be blunt … it’s an exhausting time to be alive right now. Between pictures of cities and entire island nations underwater, controversy over kneeling athletes, nuclear threats many of us haven’t heard since the Cold War days of the 60’s and 70’s, and (in)famous Twitter account insanity, it’s hard to catch a breath. That’s why today’s post is filled with quotes about life, death, love and even work, that might make you stop and realize there are still awesome things going on. I hope these life quotes will help make a positive difference in your day:

1. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ? Pablo Picasso
2. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others, or our potential to create. Evolution, and all hopes for a better world, rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ? John Lennon

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3. “People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” ? Lemony Snicket
4. “Too many people spend money they earned … to buy things they don’t want … to impress people that they don’t like.” ? Will Rogers
5. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.” ? George Bernard Shaw
6. “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated, or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” ? Arundhati Roy
7. “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.” ? Julian Barnes
8. “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bulls***. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” ? Jim Morrison
9. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ? Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
10. “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be .…” ? John Lennon
11. “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances, and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind. But in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences. And hence, there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will, at first, appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life, you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” ? Jon Krakauer  
12. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ? Isaac Asimov
13. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” ? Laura Ingalls Wilder

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14. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” ? Paulo Coelho
15. “Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.” ? Tom Robbins
16. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ? Lao Tzu
17. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ? Marcus Aurelius
18. “There are no random acts…We are all connected…You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind…” ? Mitch Albom
19. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” ? Woody Allen
20. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.?Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
21. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” ? Mary Manin Morrissey
22. “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” ? Drew Carey
23. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.” ? Anthony Robbins
24. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” ? Winston Churchill
25. “Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.” ? C. JoyBell C.
26. “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
27. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” ? Wilferd Peterson
28. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content” ? Helen Keller
29. “I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.” ? C. JoyBell C.
30. “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality, but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.” ? Marcel Proust

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31. “Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” ? Steve Maraboli
32. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” ? Gilda Radner

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    Enjoy your ambiguity and your weekend, folks!  See you back here on Monday.