Sometimes during a school year, we find ourselves stuck in a rut we cannot climb out of. If you're trapped in between school work, a job or two, or just feel empty I only ask that you let your eyes float over these snippets of encouragement from wise men and women who came before us. Allow these proverbs to dance inside your mind and ponder over how they can apply to you during this season.
1. "A true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination." -Albert Einstein
2. "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength." -Corrie Ten Boom
4. "We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them." -Epictetus
5. "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -Joan Walsh Anglund
6. "What we think, we become." -Buddha
7. "If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?" -Dogen Zenji
8. "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence." -George Washington
9. "Once a year, go someplace you've never been before." -Dalai Lama
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11. "Happiness can exist only in acceptance." -George Orwell
12. "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" -Vincent van Gogh
13. "The day you decide to do it is your lucky day." -Japanese proverb
14. "Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter." -John Keats
15. "Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it." -Gandhi
16. "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -Henry David Thoreau
17. "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." -William Arthur Ward
18. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." -Eleanor Roosevelt
19. "It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." -Moliere
20. "You may have never set foot in McDonald's, but you have your own McDonald's." -Jim Gaffigan
21. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear." -Mark Twain
22. "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." -John D. Rockefeller
23. "Do not fear, for I am with you." Isaiah 41:10
24. “She had blue skin, and so did he. He kept it hid and so did she. They searched for blue their whole life through, then passed right by- and never knew.” -Shel Silverstein
25. "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." -Roald Dahl
26. "I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." -C.S. Lewis
27. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost
28. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
29. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." -Confucius
And the quote I live by:
30. "When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't." -Louis C.K.
