21 Quotes To Help You Live Your Best Life
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21 Quotes To Help You Live Your Best Life

Inspiration and motivation can be found from the words of others.

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21 Quotes To Help You Live Your Best Life
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Words have the power to do not only make you feel, but to inspire. These are just 21 quotes, out of so many, that can help shape your 2018 year. P.S, I saved the best for last.

1. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than the ones you did do.” –H. Jackson Brown Jr

2. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

3. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

4. “Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” –Jamie Paolonetti

5. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” –Mitch Albom, "Five People You Meet in Heaven"

7. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” –Walt Disney

8. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” –Steve Maraboli

9. “The first rule of truly living—do the thing you are most afraid of.” – "The Vampire Diaries"

10. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” –Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird"

11. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” –Neil Gaiman

12. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

13. “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” – Suzanne Collins, "Mockingjay"

14. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

15. “Sometimes people are beautiful not in looks, not in what they say, just in what they are.” – Marcus Zusak, "The Book Thief"

16. “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

17. “Sometimes you will never know of the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” –Dr. Suess

18. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So, it is better to listen to what it has to say.” –Paul Coelho, The Alchemist

19. “‘Cause you never think the last time’s going to be the last time – you think there will be more. You think you have forever, but you don’t.” – Grey’s Anatomy

20. “Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” – Kate Chopin, "The Awakening"

21. "'You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you the most.'" –Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

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