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27 Quotes For Rough Days

Because we all have bad days when others describe our feelings better than we can

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27 Quotes For Rough Days
Krista Spear

If you're like me and have days of self-questioning or just a rough day in general, these quotes may help:

  1. “Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.” –Don Henley
  2. “You deserve to be fought for. Remember that.” –The Better Man Project
  3. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” –Beau Taplin
  4. “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” –Maya Angelou
  5. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” –Sirius Black (J.K. Rowling)
  6. “Do small things with great love.” –Mother Teresa
  7. “The fact that you can fell pain like this is your greatest strength.” –Albus Dumbledore (J.K. Rowling)
  8. “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you. Because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.” –Roald Dahl
  9. “Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things. Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal. Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions. Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it. Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.” –S.C. Lourie
  10. “Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.” –Mitch Albom
  11. “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” –Plato
  12. “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” –Oscar Wilde
  13. “Sometimes getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.” –Sarah Kay
  14. “I think that you can’t wait for someone to fly underneath you and save your life…I think you have to save yourself.” –Grey’s Anatomy
  15. “There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
  16. “I don’t think you can ever fill the empty spaces with the thing you lost… I don’t think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.” –John Green
  17. “Life can be romantic without having a romance. I’m very attracted to how happy I am right now.” –Taylor Swift
  18. “I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people’s opinions, but I am not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.” –Dr. Steve Maraboli
  19. “Don’t worry about the bitches.” –Jennifer Lawrence
  20. “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” –Jane Austen
  21. “When we seek to discover the best on others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” –William Arthur Ward
  22. “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” –Buddha
  23. “Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” –Camille Pissarro
  24. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” –Thich Nhat Hanh
  25. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” –Audrey Hepburn
  26. “Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.” –John Lennon
  27. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” –Ernest Hemingway
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