I'm in a really awful mood right now and today just seems like it cannot get any worse. So here are some inspirational quotes to read when you're having a bad day. Hopefully by the time I finish writing this article I will be in a better mood because of them.

1.) “The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.”

by Stephen Richards

2.) “When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”

by Stephen Richards

3.) “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

4.) “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

by Martha Washington

5.) “You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.”

by Lauren Oliver

6.) “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”

by Mark Twain

7.) “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

by Mother Teresa

8.) “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”

by Stephen Richards

9.) “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

by Martin Luther King Jr.

10.) “Self-pity is our worst enemy, if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world”

by Anonymous

11.) “Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day”

by Anonymous

12.) “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same”

by Francesca Reigler

13.) “Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”

by H. Jackson Brown Jr.

14.) “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity”

by Epicurus

15.) “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window or break down the door”

by Brooke Shields

16.)“Being happy doesn’t mean you’re perfect. It just means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections”

by K.B. Indiana

17.) “The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best out of everything that comes their way”

by Anonymous

So I hope that you all are having a better day than I am and I hope that these quotes helped you a little bit. Today is still pretty awful, but I guess I'm not in as bad of a mood as I was. I guess inspirtaional quotes do help to some degree.