We all need a little pick-me-up sometimes. While everyone has different methods of coping with difficulties, words of inspiration and encouragement are often an effective way of lifting spirits. Quotes That Will Change Your Life, a book edited by Russ Kick, is comprised of inspiring, genuine, and sometimes vividly raw quotes that deal with matters ranging from love to life to personal well-being.
Hand-picked from this handy collection are some of my personal favorites that can do a lot to not only get us going but also keep us going, no matter what life throws our way.
“Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.” -Alain de Botton
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing I am free.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
“I dwell in possibility.” -Emily Dickinson
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” -Richard Bach
“For all that has been — thanks. For all that will be — yes.” -Dag Hammarskjold
“Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” -Helen Keller
“You are that which you are seeking.” -Saint Francis of Assisi
“If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” -Vincent van Gogh
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” -Henry Miller