We all need a few good quotes sometimes. They lift our spirits, inspire us, and remind us that we're not alone. Whatever your reason may be, here are ten quotes that you may need to hear right now.
1. "There are two things to remember in life: take care of your thoughts when you're alone, and your words when you're with people." Because your thoughts create the relationship you have with yourself, while your words create the relationship you have with others.
2. "When it comes to making a big change in your life, you have to want it more than you fear it." As the great scholar President Snow once said... (from The Hunger Games) the only thing more powerful than fear is a hope. When hope overtakes fear, you can do anything.
3. "It is okay to be angry. It never okay to be cruel." I think we sometimes excuse our actions and words with "I was angry" afterwards. We have to step up and start doing better, and that means watching yourself even when you're boiling over. Your words are powerful. They shape lives. Use them carefully.
4. "We must always takes sides. Silence encourages the tormenter, never the tormented." When you see an injustice, don't sit back. Don't convince yourself it's not your place, or it's not your business. Because frankly, it IS. It's your world, too. No more excuses. Stick up for what you know in your heart is right.
5. "Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life." Do something that terrifies you. Step out of your comfort zone and do something you told yourself was impossible. Because everything is impossible until you do it.
6. "Be somebody that makes everybody feel like a somebody." This goes along with another one of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain. Small people will always try to belittle you. But great people, truly great people, will make you feel like you too can become great.
7. "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." Look, I'm just going to say it. I don't want to dance around the subject with you. Nothing in the entire world is for sure. And if you're absolutely certain about anything, you probably fit in to the former of this category. Let yourself doubt a little. It's okay if you doubt yourself and become frustrated or even hopeless. It's sign of an intelligent adult.
8. "I am still learning to love the parts of myself that no one claps for." I think we get stuck on the feeling of validation. I know I built my entire self-esteem throughout childhood on making people proud of me via grades from a classroom. Not every part of you is what other people find interesting or valuable. Love that part anyway. They all make up who you are.
9. The Wolf Story. Does everyone know it? Basically a Cherokee man told his grandson about the two wolves inside of us. One is anger, jealousy, exhaustion. The other is kindness, empathy, relaxed. They are both inside of us, wrestling to get out. The boy, now very alarmed, asks which one will win. "They one you feed," he says and smiles. That's the one that survives.
10. "See the light in others, and treat them as if that's all you see." Remember that everyone was born a baby. Everyone was born innocent and light and lovable. If they lost their heart along the way, don't punish them for it. You wouldn't punish a child for getting lost on the way home. Take their hand, and quietly, leading them back to safety.
