I hope everyone is continuing to find success adapting to this situation and is finding new hobbies or fun activities to pursue in the house. If not, no pressure there either, just taking it one day at a time is my motto. For a while now, I’ve loved collecting quotes and hearing how the wisdom of other people living completely different lives than mine still somehow resonates with me. From fortune cookies to team huddles before soccer matches to books, I gather and acquire quotes that strike a chord with me a write them in my journal. Here are some of my favorites.
- “I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” – Helen Keller
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
- “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.” – Unknown
- “We need not to be left alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long has it been since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” – Ray Bradbury
- “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” – Ray Bradbury
- “Self-consciousness is the enemy of all creativity.” – Ray Bradbury
- “Life is not the mountain tops, it’s the walking in between.” – Ben Rector
- “I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Emily Dickinson
- “That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.” – Emily Dickinson
- “You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.” – Cheryl Strayed
- “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.” – Cheryl Strayed
- “Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.” – Glennon Doyle
- “People who need help sometimes look a lot like people who don’t need help.” – Glennon Doyle
- “Just do the next right thing one thing at a time. That’ll take you all the way home.” – Glennon Doyle
I hope some of these quotes hit home for you and inspired you to start keeping an eye out for your own favorites that show up in your life. Writing this list of quotes already made me feel much more relaxed and optimistic, so turning to words when you feel out of sorts can sometimes be the best thing to do.
These are the books/albums I found some of these quotes in:
