I know from personal experience that life can literally take its toll on a person. Sometimes days mesh together and more often than not nights are spent tossing and turning until you find yourself in a restless sleep. Whether it’s things on your mind or just straight up depression getting the best of you, these are a few quotes to think about when life gets tough.
1.“Strength grows in the moments when you think you can’t go on but you keep going on anyway.” - Anonymous
2.“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” - Anonymous
3.“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.” - Anonymous
4.“Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.” - Anonymous
5.“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” - Anonymous
6.“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” –Ernest Hemingway
7.“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” - Anonymous
8.“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” – Sylvia Plath
9.“I have been broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Emily Dickinson
10.“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
11.“Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” – Bruce Lee
12.“We are all broken. That is how the light gets in.” – Ernest Hemingway
13.“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” – Sylvia Plath
14.“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” –Alice Walker
15.“You are braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – Christopher Robin
16.“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.” – Margaret Mitchell
17.“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
18.“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen is by use.” – Ruth Gordo
19.“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with you demons will cause your angels to sing.” – August Wilson
20.“Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.” – Nelson Mandela
21.“Although the world is suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
Please, please, please, always remember that you are not alone in whatever struggles you are facing. You have the strength to overcome any obstacle that life throws at you.
I believe in you.
