No matter what mood I’m in, I always seem to “lighten up” so to speak, when I read some quotes… I figured since I was reading them, I’d share some of them with you.

(I have cited the authors as I found the quotes. My apologies to anyone who has a listed quote attributed to another. Please let me know and I’ll change it!)

With that being said, enjoy!

49. “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
- Wayne Gretzky

48. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

47. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
- Socrates

46. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
- Aesop

45. “A loving person lives in a loving world.”
- Karen Keyes

44. “Since every failure is a lesson, every challenge an opportunity, and every joy a triumph, it’s hard to go wrong.”
- Michael Addison Reed

43. “Eyes that look are common. Eyes that see are rare.”
- J. Oswald Sanders

42. “In daily life, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”
- Brother David Steindl-Rast

41. “Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.”
- Thomas F. Crum

40. “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.”
- Albert Einstein

39. “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.”
- Hannah Moore or Henry Ford (attributed to both)

38. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
- Judy Garland

37. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

36. “The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
- Robert Byrne

35. “Everybody can be great because everybody can serve.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

34. “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
- Rabindranath Tagore

33. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
- Albert Einstein

32. “Life is a great big canvas. Throw all the paint on it you can.”
- Danny Kaye

31. “Live every day as if it’s your last because one of these days, it will be.”
- Jeremy Schwartz

30. “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.”
- Barbara Sher

29. “Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
- Ralph Marston

28. “Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.”
- Art Linkletter

27. “The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
- Winston Churchill

26. “Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.”
- English Proverb

25. “People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

24. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
- Andrew Carnegie

23. “Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.”
- William Feather

22. “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
- George Bernard Shaw

21. “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
- Helen Keller

19. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.”
- Dennis Waitley

18. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

17. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
- Mark Twain

16. “Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger, and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be so much more the grateful.”
- Horace

15. “There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
- Christopher Morley

14. “Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.”
- Albert Einstein

13. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
- Helen Keller

12. “If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.”
- Les Brown

11. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
- Henry David Thoreau

9. “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
- Maya Angelou

8. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
- Cicero

7. “The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”
- Eric Hoffer

6. “Nothing happens unless first we dream.”
- Carl Sandburg

5. “Wilderness is therapy.”
- Dr. Wayne Dyer

4. “Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
- Albert Einstein

3. “What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”
- Victor Frankl

2. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
- M. Scott Peck

1. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…. It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
- Melodie Beattie