Quotes On Giving Up

1. “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” -Buddha

2. “I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health.” -Voltaire

3. “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” -Buddha

4. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” -Gabriel García Márquez

5. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” -Tom Bodett

6. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust

7. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” -Charles M. Schulz

8. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” -Stephen Chbosky

9. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” -Mark Twain

10. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

11. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. ”-Chuck Palahniuk

12. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” -Roy T. Bennett

13. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” -Dale Carnegie

14. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” -Walt Disney

15. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” -Anne Frank

16. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

17. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” -Mark Twain

18. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss

19. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” -Aristotle

20. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” -Albert Einstein

21. “If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” -Mother Teresa

22. “Being happy never goes out of style.” -Lily Pulitzer

23. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” -Carrie Underwood

24. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” -Benjamin Franklin

26. “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” -Roy T. Bennett

27. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.” -Ellen DeGeneres

28. “Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.” -Dalai Lama

29. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” -Audrey Hepburn

30. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” -Christian Dior

31. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi

32. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” -Robert A. Heinlein

34. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” -Abraham Lincoln

35. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” -Chuck Palahniuk

36. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” -Ernest Hemingway

37. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -Albert Camus

38. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi

39. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” -Stephen Chbosky

40. “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

41. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” -John Lennon

42. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” -Dalai Lama XIV

43. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

44. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” -Tom Bodett

45. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” -Roy T. Bennett

46. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” -Audrey Hepburn

47. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” -Charles M. Schulz

48. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

49. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” -Roy T. Bennett

50. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” -Dale Carnegie

51. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” -Gabriel García Márquez

52. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” -George Burns

53. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust

54. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” -Roy T. Bennett

55. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” -Chuck Palahniuk

56. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” -Sylvia Plath

57. “Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” -Alfred Lord Tennyson

58. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell

59. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” -Mark Twain

60. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” -Steve Maraboli

Read this collection of short inspirational quotes On Destiny and let us know within the comment segment which one becomes your each day mantra.

1. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare

2. “We ought to face our destiny with courage.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

3. “Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?” – Garth Nix

4. “You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.” – Roy T. Bennett

5. “Listen to the advice of your own Destiny! All is a given!” – Sorin Cerin

6. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” – Siddhartha Gautama

7. “Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.” – Haruki Murakami

8. “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” – J.K. Rowling

9. “You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.” – Philip Pullman

10. “Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.” – Stefano Benni

11. “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” – Goldie Hawn

12. “A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

13. “When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.” – RuPaul Charles

14. “Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.” – Crystal Woods

15. “Destiny doesn’t do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

16. “The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.” – Seneca

17. “It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny.” – Jean Nidetch

18. “Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.” – Darren Shan

19. “For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.” – Thomas Merton

20. “I shall seize fate by the throat.” – Ludwig van Beethoven

21. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill

22. “Control your own destiny or someone else will.” – Jack Welch

23. “Sometimes it takes a wrong turn to get you to the right place.” – Mandy Hale

24. “Everyone gets an ending. Whether or not it’s happy is up to them.” – Stephen Chbosky

25. “All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.” – Richard Matheson

26. “I am a Pisces, a fish out of water, searching for a way back home.” – James Kidd

27. “Destiny finds those who listen, and fate finds the rest.” – Marshall Masters

28. “When you are destined for greatness, it shows in everything you do. It becomes you. Greatness becomes you.” – Lorii Myers

29. “Our choices determine our destiny.” – A.R. Bernard

30. “If tragedy never entered our lives, we wouldn’t appreciate the magic.” – Nikki Rowe

31. “Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.” – Mike Norton

32. “Sometimes you don’t get to choose your partner. Life chooses it for you.” – C.M. Stunich

33. “A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.” – Haruki Murakami

34. “Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.” – Annie Dillard

35. “We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.” – Sorin Cerin

36. “Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.” – Taylor Jenkins Reid

37. “Are you up to your destiny?” – William Shakespeare

38. “Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?” – Edith Pearlman

39. “The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.” – James Allen

40. “Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.” – Kin Hubbard

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

42. “I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.” – Robin Williams

43. “Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships.” – Rick Warren

44. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.” – Jean De La Fontaine

45. “It’s your decisions, not your conditions, that determine your destiny.” – Tony Robbins

46. “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton

47. “Destiny is not a matter of chance, it’s a matter of choice, it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan

48. “One country, one constitution, one destiny.” – Daniel Webster

49. “Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.” – Henry Miller

50. “Letting go means coming to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli

51. “Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.” – Harry S Truman

52. “Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.” – Jean De La Fontaine

53. “For Destiny never swerves nor yields to men the helm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

54. “The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.” – Dennis L. Bark

55. “Determination designs destiny, indifference invites doom.” – Abhijit Naskar

56. “That which we are meant to be, we are.” – James Qualls

57. “What does my future hold? All of the stuff that I packed into it yesterday.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

58. “The dreamer of destiny is the dreaming of this day.” – Lailah Gifty Akita”

59. “Destiny is the inner meaning of chance.” – Patrick Harpur

60. “Show me your desire, your commitment, your stamina, your hard-won gifts, show me the luck you make, and I will show you your destination.” – Suzy Davies

1. “I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.” —Lance Conrad

2. “Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother’s secret hope outlives them all.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes

3. “The mother’s heart is the child’s school-room.” —Henry Ward Beecher

4. “The world needs our mothers.” —Liya Kebede

5. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.”- Maya Angelou

6. “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

7. “My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.” —Michael Jordan

8. “No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother’s love.” —Edwin Chapin

9. “We are born of love; love is our mother.” —Rumi

10. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.” —James E. Faust

11. “My Mother: She is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”- Jodi Picoult

12. “My mother was my role model before I even knew what that word was.” —Lisa Leslie

13. “A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.” —Honore de Balzac

14. “The biggest adjustment is I just didn’t know there was that much room in a house for that much joy. I have to say it—I didn’t know I could feel like this but I am tired, I am so happy!”- Hoda Kotb

15. “Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” —Lin Yutang

16. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.” —Kahil Gibran

17. “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”- Abraham Lincoln

18. “Mothers are like glue. Even when you can’t see them, they’re still holding the family together.” —Susan Gale

19. “There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.” —Jill Churchill

20. “All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” —Abraham Lincoln

21. “A mother is clothed with strength and dignity, laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks her words are wise and she gives instructions with kindness.” —Proverbs

22. “Once you’re a mom, you’re always a mom. It’s like riding a bike, you never forget.”- Taraji P. Henson

23. “A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

24. “Don’t poets know it better than others? God can’t always be everywhere: and, so, invented mothers.”- Sir Edwin Arnold

25. “When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”- Sophia Loren

26. “A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place.” —Amy Tan

27. “I realized why I was born and more than anything all of the things I want to pass onto my child, and the best way of doing that is not by preaching or telling her but showing her by example.”- Beyoncé

28. “There is no velvet so soft as a mother’s lap, no rose as lovely as her smile, no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps.” —Archibald Thompson

29. “Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.” —Lady Gaga

30. “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity.”- Agatha Christie

31. “The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”- Honoré de Balzac

32. “Motherhood changes everything.”- Adriana Trigiani

33. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”- William Makepeace Thackeray

34. “The most beautiful word on the lips of mankind is the word ‘Mother’, and the most beautiful call is the call of ‘My Mother’.”- Kahlil Gibran

35. “Mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson

36. “If love is as sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.” —Stevie Wonder

37. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.” —William Makepeace Thackeray

38. “When you are looking at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.” —Charley Benetto

39. “There is nothing as sincere as a mother’s kiss.” —Saleem Sharma

40. “A mother understands what a child does not say.” —Jewish proverb

41. “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.”- Erich Fromm

42. “A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.” —Cardinal Mermillod

43. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”- Robert Browning

44. “A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s.”- Princess Diana

45. “In the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child reads the message: ‘You are there!’” —Adrienne Rich

46. “A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.” —Victor Hugo

47. “There is no role in life that is more essential than that of motherhood.”- Elder M. Russell Ballar

48. “The loveliest masterpiece of the heart of God is the heart of a mother.” —St. Therese of Lisieux

49. “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ” —Robert Browning

50. “To a child’s ear, ‘mother’ is magic in any language.” —Arlene Benedict

51. “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.” —Maya Angelou

52. “A mother’s love endures through all.”- Washington Irving

53. “I’ve got her spirit/She’s always got my back/When I look at her/I think, I want to be just like that.”- Lauren Alaina

54. “When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ It is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”- Erma Bombeck

55. “Mother is the heartbeat in the home; and without her, there seems to be no heart throb.”- Leroy Brownlow

56. “The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.”- James E. Faust

57. “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.”- Marion C. Garretty

58. “A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.” —Debasish Mridha

59. “Motherhood is the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It’s huge and scary—it’s an act of infinite optimism.”- Gilda Radner

60. “Personally, I’ve always known that I wanted to go back to work because I’m confident, and I’m certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I’m doing the things that I’m excited about and that I’m passionate about.”- Lisa Ling

1. People follow leaders by choice. Without trust, at best you get compliance. – Jesse Lyn Stoner

2. If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated. – Allison Croggon

3. Trust is a currency; you can’t afford not to invest in it. Interestingly enough, trust can only be built, maintained, and repaired through conversations. – Juliana Vergara

4. When you fully trust someone without any doubt, you finally get one of two results: a person for life or a lesson for life.

5. By the standards of the rest of the world, we overtrust. So far it has worked very well for us. – Charlie Munger

6. None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.― Paulo Coelho

7. You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. – Frank Crane

8. Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.-Roy T. Bennett

9. Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder.

10. Trust is like a vase, once it’s broken, though you can fix it, the vase will never be same again.-Walter Anderson

11. Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair.

12. I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.-Stanley Baldwin

13. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. – Albert Einstein

14. Most of us consider trust to be built slowly, with verification, and in degrees. …trust is created by a combination of things and, while the end result is almost magical, the process cannot be rushed. – Mac Richard

15. A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold Macmillan

16. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.― Corrie ten Boom

17. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18. The glue that holds business relationships together, that is trust, and this trust is purely based on integrity. – Brian Tracy

19. Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. – Eric Sevareid

20. For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.― Suzanne Collins

21. The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.-Abraham Lincoln

22. Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt. – Eric Sevareid

23. Don’t be afraid to show your vulnerability. Be transparent with your team, even when the truth may be unpopular or inconvenient. – Bill George

24. Positive people also tend to know who to trust and who their friends should be. -Jennifer N. Smith

25. Your words and deeds must match if you expect employees to trust in your leadership. – Kevin Kruse

26. Trust is built and maintained by many small actions over time. – Lolly Daskal

27. The best leaders build trust from the inside out. An organization that does not have the trust of its employees can never earn the trust of its customers. – Scott Baradell

28. You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible.-Anton Chekhov

29. Trust has to be the highest value in your company, and if it’s not, something bad is going to happen to you. – Marc Benioff

30. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. Leadership is the relentless pursuit of truth and ceaseless creation of trust. – Jack Welch

32. Trust starts with trustworthy leadership. It must be built into the corporate culture. – Barbara Brooks Kimmel

33. Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. – Arthur Ashe

34. Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it’s broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker’s reflection.― Lady Gaga

35. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.-Ernest Hemingway

36. In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding. – Brad Meltzer

37. Trusting is hard. Knowing who to trust, even harder. – Maria Snyder

38. Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.-Christopher Hitchens

39. To earn trust, one must be vulnerable. It is the only path to real intimacy. -Ellen Miley Perry

40. Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right. – Don Peppers

41. Self-trust is the first secret of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

42. It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.― David Levithan

43. He who does not trust enough will not be trusted.-Lao Tzu

44. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.― Ernest Hemingway

45. Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.― William Shakespeare

46. Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. – Stephen Covey

47. Don’t trust the person who has broken faith once. – William Shakespeare

48. I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.― Friedrich Nietzsche

49. If people like you, they will listen to you. but if people trust you, they will do business with you. – Zig Ziglar

50. Men trust their ears less than their eyes.-Herodotus

51. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. – Abraham Lincoln

52. A trust leap is when we take a risk to do something new or to do it differently from the way that we’ve done something before. – Rachel Botsman

53. It takes two to do the trust tango–the one who risks (the trustor) and the one who is trustworthy (the trustee); each must play their role. – Warren Buffett

54. Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them. – Roy T. Bennett

55. Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.-Roy T. Bennett

56. Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust. – Roy T. Bennett

57. I believe the greatest compliment in the world is trust. -Jennifer McAlister

58. Trust your team. Let others do their work so you can concentrate wholly on your own. – Gene King

59. Content builds relationships, relationships are built on trust. Trust drives revenue. – Andrew Davis

60. The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.-Stephen King

61. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.― Maya Angelou

62. Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. – Stephen Covey

63. Contrary to what most people believe, trust is not some soft, illusive quality that you either have or you don’t; rather, trust is a pragmatic, tangible, actionable asset that you can create. – Stephen Covey
64. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

65. Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. – Booker T. Washington

66. Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.-Maya Angelou

67. Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet – thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing – consistently. – Lance Secretan

68. Trust is a very delicate area and needs to be built over time. Any one act can destroy faith which takes years to build. -Dr. Rachel Venturini

69. When the trust is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective. – Stephen Covey

70. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.-Albert Einstein

1. “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”– Douglas Coupland

2. “There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.”– M.W Poetry

3. “There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” – Paula Stokes

4. “Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.” – Martha Beck

5. “There’s a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night’s.”– Ed Gorman

6. “Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.”– Rollo May

7. “We live in such a lonely world because most days we wake up and decide to marry no one but ourselves.”– Christopher Poindexter

8. “I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.” – Henry Rollins

9. “Loneliness might be taking you towards an otherwise unreachable experience of reality.” – Olivia Laing

10. “Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.”

11. “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”– Jodi Picoult

12. “Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”– Poppy Z. Brite

13. “There is something immaculate about loneliness which only lonely people can understand.”– Munia Khan

14. “Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.”– John Le Carre

15. “Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”– Thomas Wolfe

16. “All great and precious things are lonely.”– John Steinbeck

17. “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.” – George Herbert

18. “What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” – Ellen Burstyn

19. ”When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death – ourselves.”– Eda J. LeShan

20. “It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.” – Hans F. Hansen

21. “If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.”– Andy Rooney

22. “I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”– Oscar Wilde

23. “In the solitude of your dreams grows the flame that will bring the light to this world.”– Unknown

24. “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel alone.”– Robin Williams

25. “I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”– Amy Sedaris

26. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”– Henrik Ibsen

27. “The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.”– Mitch Albom

28. “Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.”

29. “It takes a strong person to remain single in a world that is accustomed to settling with anything just to say they have something.”– Anonymous

30. “Sometimes it’s better to be alone no one can hurt you that way.”– Tinku Razoria

31. “You can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes you just need to be alone and let your tears out.”– Unknown

32. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”– Orson Welles

33. “Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”– Charles Bukowski

34. “Solitude, whether endured or embraced, is a necessary gateway to original thought.”– Jane Hirschfield

35. “Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude.” – Robin Sharma

36. “Talent is nurtured in solitude… A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

37. “Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.”– William Orville Douglas

38. “Whoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”– Aristotle

39. “Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.”– William Powell

40. “A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”– Bertrand Russell

41. “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”– Pau Tillich

42. “To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”– Deepak Chopra

43. “Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”– Paul Brunton

44. “We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together…. I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.”– Helen Hayes

45. “Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.”– Naomi Judd

46. “I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its solitude. I will be the desert.”– Kiersten White

47. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”– Arthur Schopenhauer

48. “Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”– Edward Gibbon

49. “Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.” – Paul Tillich

50. “In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”– Laurence Sterne

51. “Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”– Anonymous

52. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

53. ”No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” – Gautama Buddha

54. “I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear love death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.” – Martha Gellhorn

55. ”You have to go ahead, even if no one goes with you.”– Lailah Gifty Akita

56. “When I get lonely these days, I think: So Be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

57. “If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou

58. “You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.” – Amit Ray

59. “Find company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone. Find love within yourself and you’ll never have a lonely day.” – Connor Chalfant

60. “Pray that your loneliness may spur into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.” – Dag Hammarskjold

1. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. — Buddha

2. When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another. — Helen Keller

3. I like criticism. It makes you strong. — LeBron James

4. The greatest pleasure of life is love. — Euripides

5. Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. — Confucius

6. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. – Steve Jobs

7. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. – Eleanor Roosevelt

8. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. -Chuck Palahniuk

9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. – Babe Ruth

10. You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. ― George Clooney

11. There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path. -Buddha

12. My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get. — Forrest Gump

13. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on. ― Robert Frost

14. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown

15. The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates

16. Live for each second without hesitation. — Elton John

17. Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about. — Marilyn Monroe

18. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West

19. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. -Thomas Jefferson

20. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss

21. Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. — Seneca

22. Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there. — Will Smith

23. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

24. The healthiest response to life is joy. — Deepak Chopra

25. Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny. — Stephen Hawking

26. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. —Dolly Parton

27. Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. — Benjamin Franklin

28. The purpose of our lives is to be happy. — Dalai Lama

29. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. -Baruch Spinoza

30. Turn your wounds into wisdom. — Oprah Winfrey

31. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -Bertrand Russell

32. The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.– Frank Sinatra

33. Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something. — Ashton Kutcher

34. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

35. Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. — Mark Twain

36. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. — Charles Swindoll

37. Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. -Steve Maraboli

38. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. – Mark Twain

39. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. — Grandma Moses

40. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. -Buddha

41. Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.– Babe Ruth

42. In order to write about life first you must live it.– Ernest Hemingway

43. Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. – Leo Burnett

44. Life is a flower of which love is the honey. — Victor Hugo

45. Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. — Jack Kerouac

46. Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this. — Celine Dion

47. Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. — Lillian Dickson

48. Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. — John Lennon

49. The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. -Carrie Jones

50. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. -Immanuel Kant

51. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.– Albert Einstein

52. Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. — Kobe Bryant

53. Get busy living or get busy dying. — Stephen King

54. The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love. — Wordsworth

55. I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health. -Voltaire

56. The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.– Henry Ford

57. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. — Helen Keller

59. Life is about making an impact, not making an income. — Kevin Kruse

60. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.– Thomas A. Edison