My favourite quotes (part 2)
@ dreaming by dusk
One of my favourite things about collecting quotes is the feeling you get when the words and phrases resonate with you.
You relate so strongly to the language that you have to write it down and keep it in a special place where you can return to it, again and again.
Like your favourite book, song, or film.
Today, I’m sharing a list of 30 of my favourite quotes about my sense of self, others, and the world around me.
If you’re seeking some inspiration for mantras, affirmations, or more, stay here and read the rest of this post.
1. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Gustav Jung
2. “Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.” – Ian Fleming
3. “Don’t wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.” – Joyce Meyer
4. “Some of us aren’t meant to belong. Some of us have to turn the world upside down and shake the hell out of it until we make it our own place.” – Elizabeth Lowell
5. “When I accept myself I am free from the burden of needing you to accept me.” – Steve Maraboli
6. “Never obsess about chasing love. Chase goals. Chase dreams. Chase the behaviours that are going to make you better. You don’t chase love; you allow that to find you by accident, and when it finds you on accident, you’ll know that it was supposed to find you purposely.” – Sylvester McNutt
7. “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.” – Evelyn Waugh
8. “Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.” – Charles J. Shields
9. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
10. “Hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou
11. “Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was always just red.” – Kait Rokowski
12. “Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.” – Alfred Adler
13. “Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
14. “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.” – Virginia Woolf
15. “You just have to surround yourself with the things that make you grateful to be alive.” – Juansen Dizon
16. “It’s enough to be reminded that my body is not just my body, but that I’m made of old stars.” – Ada Limon
17. “…make death proud to take us.” – Willian Shakespeare
18. “Sometimes you have to give up something you are to get to who you want to be.” – Leila Sales
19. “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” – Josh Grayson
20. “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” – Charles Chaplin
21. “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” – Paulo Coelho
22. “It’s okay to love something a little too much, as long as it’s real to you.” – Gerard Way.
23. “It’s good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.” – Tim Burton
24. “I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.” – Iain Thomas
25. “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” – Desmond Tutu
26. “Something had caught fire within me, a purpose had revealed itself.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
27. “You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want.” – S.E. Hintom
28. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – C. Joybell C.
29. “Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” – Sylvia Plath
30. “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” – Stephen King