Quotes
60 quotes for when life feels confusing
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On being lost
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the stream of life.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
What you seek is seeking you.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
On not knowing yet
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
On purpose and meaning
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Those who have a 'why' to live can bear with almost any 'how'.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
On starting before you're ready
You do not have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
On who you are underneath it
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Short lines for a bad day
This too shall pass.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
Inhale the future, exhale the past.
Quotes help for about an hour
They're good for company and not much good for direction. When you want the other half, the two-minute self-check will tell you which kind of confusion you're actually in.