I just wanted to share some of the quotes I've collected over the years that have helped me have a better perspective on the worst days. Hope some of them may be helpful to someone else.
"We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy." Walter Anderson
"Your value doesn't decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." ~Ambrose Redmoon
"A diamond was once a piece of coal that handled stress exceptionally well."
"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love." ~Brene Brown
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."
"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that inside you there is something that is greater than any obstacle." ~Christian D. Larson
"If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito." ~African Proverb
"A river cuts through a rock not because of it's power, but because of it's persistence."
"When something bad happens you have 3 choices. You can let it define you, destroy you, or strengthen you."
"People tend to give up so quickly because they focus on how far they have to go, and forget how far they have already come."
"Sometimes life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain."
"Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent free in your head. Forgiveness never excuses their behavior, it prevents their behavior from destroying your heart."
"Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep going forward."
"When it hurts to look back and you're afraid to look forward, look beside you and take comfort in your friends."
"The moment you think of giving up, remember why you held on so long."
"We struggle with insecurity when we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." ~Steven Furtick
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." ~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Every beautiful flower first struggled through the dirt, and every butterfly was once in a dark cocoon."
"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world." ~Helen Keller
"Once I knew only darkness and stillness. My life was without past or future. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped to the rapture of living." ~Hellen Keller
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain." ~Hellen Keller
"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." ~Hellen Keller
