In your quiet moments, what do you think about? How far you’ve come, or how far you have to go? Your strengths, or your weaknesses? The best that might happen, or the worst that might come to be? In your quiet moments, pay attention to your thoughts. Because maybe, just maybe, the only thing that needs to shift in order for you to experience more happiness, more love, and more vitality, is your way of thinking.
Here are 60 thought-provoking quotes and life lessons gathered from our book and our blog archive that will help you adjust your way of thinking.
- You cannot change what you refuse to confront.
- Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Don’t think of cost. Think of value.
- Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
- Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people they don’t know. Read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
- No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.
- If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
- Making one person smile can change the world – maybe not the whole world, but their world.
- Saying someone is ugly doesn’t make you any prettier.
- The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well.
- Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.
- The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
- It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company.
- As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.
- Making a hundred friends is not a miracle. The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.
- Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak, sometimes it means you are strong enough and smart enough to let go and move on.
- Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, etc…
- If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.
- Don’t choose the one who is beautiful to the world; choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
- Falling in love is not a choice. To stay in love is.
- True love isn’t about being inseparable; it’s about two people being true to each other even when they are separated.
- While you’re busy looking for the perfect person, you’ll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
- Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.
- You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them. Read The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
- In life, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.
- When you stop chasing the wrong things you give the right things a chance to catch you.
- Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.
- There isn’t anything noble about being superior to another person. True nobility is in being superior to the person you once were.
- Trying to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
- You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.
- People are more what they hide than what they show.
- Sometimes people don’t notice the things others do for them until they stop doing them.
- Don’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.
- Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.
- Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
- Anyone can come into your life and say how much they love you. It takes someone really special to stay in your life and show how much they love you.
- Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion; today is special.
- Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up, we forget they are also growing old.
- When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it’s probably time to change the people around you.
- Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
- When someone tells you, “You’ve changed,” it might simply be because you’ve stopped living your life their way.
- Someone else doesn’t have to be wrong for you to be right.
- Be happy. Be yourself. If others don’t like it, then let them be. Happiness is a choice. Life isn’t about pleasing everybody.
- When you’re up, your friends know who you are. When you’re down, you know who your friends are.
- Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
- If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you’re fooling yourself. That’s like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn’t eat him.
- No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Many people are so poor because the only thing they have is money.
- Learn to appreciate the things you have before time forces you appreciate the things you once had.
- When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.
- You don’t drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
- It’s better to know and be disappointed than to never know and always wonder.
- There are things that we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.
- Happiness is not determined by what’s happening around you, but rather what’s happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.
- If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
- What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.
- You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
- Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
- If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.
Photo by: Andrew Evans
innawake says
My heart feels light and happy when i read this article. These quotes make me think, and motivate me to make changes. Thank you for putting this piece together.
Raj says
Brilliant! This helped me clear a few negative thoughts out of my head.
Miriam says
Wonderful stuff
Yoni says
Great list! Lots of valid points =)
yeyet says
thank you for sharing the quotes , they are really inspiring 😉
Craig Daniels says
I love lists that are immediately useful and quotes are at the top of my way to start the day. Thanks for the great list.
Andrej says
Thanks for sharing this article… made me change my thinking. Really helped 🙂
Jiten says
Everything is in the thinking?
Noel says
Born.. Live.. Die..
Life’s one story, no matter how short or long we cannot rewrite. We are what we are, the authors.
Donna says
Thanks, I only hope that I can live by some of these quotes.
sarah says
This list is amazing. I am saving it so I can refer back to it when times get rough.
Matsi says
Reading #4 has truly helped me solve a severe crisis I was having. Now I can solve #60; I can change how I see something looking from outside-in. I sincerely feel more at peace with myself and profoundly more secure with my identity. I shall now take #52 to heart now that I realized I was underwater.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
David says
Thanks for sharing – these quotes are a great reminder to keep a good attitude and a clear perspective. Change is part of life and these will help make the process less painful.
D. L. says
I truly live by #27, and have grown to know the importance of #42. LIFE IS GOOD.
Toyyiebah says
I had a wonderful conversation with my dad concerning whether he agrees with this or not… and it was all positive. Great points!
JAMES says
I grateful for these inspiring tips. Thanks.
Nthabi says
Thank you for all the wonderful words of encouragement. I was at a brink of breaking but now I know better.
I’m now looking forward to a better relationship and better life.
Thanks again
hello says
Thank you for the words of wisdom. Cheers!
Saransh says
beautiful quotes. Loved it. Small things written that have so much meaning. 🙂
oumissa says
I’ve always loved quotes and these 60 are among the most inspiring I’ve ever read. Keep up the good work with what you share here.
aniA says
These are inspiring quotes about change. I especially loved: “In your quiet moments, pay attention to your thoughts. Because maybe, just maybe, the only thing that needs to shift in order for you to experience more happiness, more love, and more vitality, is your way of thinking.” – I put that on an image and posted it as my cover photo in FB. :0)
Minh Tran says
Wow these quotes are really nice and help change my thinking in a positive way, thank you. It is helpful to read other people’s philosophies and inspirations.
Saturn says
Some of these quotes really do change the way I think, thanks so much for this wisdom.
sivaprasad.k says
I think simply reading these quotations helped me change my life a little. Thanks!
Rocky says
I always look upon quotes, whenever I feel low. Such things help keep my concise very clear. Thanks for posting all the quotes together.
Fav: If you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. If you lie, it becomes a part of your future.
As I’ve experienced both 🙂
Apple Bridges says
Words can have an amazing effect on our quality of life. Thanks for this thoughtful compilation!
manoj says
Thank you for these amazing quotes and inspiring sayings.
shazana says
I love all my friends, but when i read #15 it reminded me about my best friend and how I miss her lot. Thank you for posting such beautiful quotes.
Piyush says
These quotes and saying are the outcome of the combination of mind and heart… hats off!
Harry says
Thank you so much!! Reading these was much needed.
Cleston aldric says
Thanks a lot for these quotes! They are really inspiring, was looking for some motivation , and this really helped me out 🙂
johrina baganian says
Thanks a lot for these very nice and inspiring quotes… 🙂
Gabby says
Starting to have second thoughts about a few of my friends…
Jamie says
Thank you very much so very inspiring indeed; thank you!
Ran says
My favorite is: “The important thing, is the obvious thing no one is saying” by Charles Bukowski.
FEATS says
WOW! Lovely, thoughtful quotes. ALOHA and MAHALO.
JJ Wong says
Wonderful list of quotes. Inspiring~
Ariana says
Thanks for this list of poignant, true-to-life quotes! I’ve gone through so much in life up to this point and all of these quotes ring true to me. I started crying when reading some of them. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Siama says
All these quotes are the foundation and the mirror of our lives on earth. I am inspired and motivated by them. Many thanks for sharing them.
PIYUSH says
Don’t look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.
sana says
Beautiful quotes about thinking more openly. Thank you.
sonu says
Such an inspiring list of quotes that really got me thinking. Thanks.
Maria says
This is amazing! Thank you for compiling and sharing these thought-provoking quotes!
Kristen says
“If you were to throw your problems in a pile with everyone else’s problems you would gladly take your back”
I always like that one…process of elimination, someone’s gotta have the worst problem in the world but I know mine can’t be that bad in comparison. Attitude of Gratitude 🙂 I’m always happy & thankful for my Faith/spirituality, Health, Love & Freedom. This wild world is truly amazing and beautiful if we can just see it for what it really is and be grateful! Gotta just let the world amaze you, allow it and it will.
Vincent says
Such life changing quotes. Good inspiration! I’m glad to found it!!
Dave says
Timeless inspirations.
Allaine says
Thank you for reminding me that I am special. I love your blog. I am so thankful that you take the time to inspire others, your family or friends and complete strangers like me. May you continue to live your life beautifully and continue to inspire others. At this day and age, people are so busy they tend to forget what truly matters.
Hassan Ali says
These quotes are the best. Thank you for sharing them.
Sammy Njoroge says
Such inspirational quotes… made me think and reflect of what is important in life.
Terry says
Was really inspired by these quotes and sayings. Thanks.