Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a big love for quotes. After asking the members of Her Campus UConn to share some of their favorite ones, the response that I received told me that I’m not the only one who has an obsession with well-worded sentences.
If you’re going through a hard time, trying to make a difficult decision, or just have a love for quotes like we do, these ones are sure to give you all the feels and a fresh perspective on life. So take a break from that assignment you’re working on or that test you’re studying for, and find comfort in the fact that it’s all been done before.
“Be the change you wish to see in the world.” –Ghandi
“You may not be on the winning horse right now, but you’re the one I’d bet on.” -Reddit
“We were on a break!” –Friends
“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and get yourself together.” –Elizabeth Taylor
“Just live well. Just live.” –Me Before You
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world but you do have some say in who hurts you.” –John Green
“You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” –Me Before You
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” –Reinhold Niebuhr
“You can’t be hesitant about who you are.” –Viola Davis
“If you want something that you’ve never had than you’ve got to do something you’ve never done.” –Thomas Jefferson
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake you up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” –Lady Gaga
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world, is that you share with someone else when you’re uncool” -Almost Famous
“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” –Gloria Steinem
“Proceed as if success is inevitable.” –Anonomyous
“I wear my curves like a badge of honor. My belly may jiggle when I laugh and my thighs may shake when I run. But I’m laughing and I’m running and I’m using this body to experience all the beauty of life.” –London Andrews
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” –Winston Churchill
“Surrealism has less to do with what is random and senseless, and more to do with accepting that our lives don’t always have to make sense.” –Unknown
“Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.” –Frank Tyger
“Though she be but little, she is fierce.” –William Shakespeare
“Throw kindness around like confetti.” –Bob Goff
“Don’t forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.” –Shirley Temple
“If you had a friend you knew you’d never see again what would you say? If you could do one last thing for someone you love, what would it be? Say it. Do it. Don’t wait. Nothing lasts forever.” –One Tree Hill
“A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real.” –Harry Styles
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” –E.E Cummings
“Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music?” –One Tree Hill
“Let’s be clear. Where I was born is nowhere near where I came alive.” –Matt Nathanson
“Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning, your book has no end.” –Of Mice & Men
“She believed she could so she did.” –R.S. Grey
“Oh girl, the places you end up when you don’t look where you’re going…” –The Wiz
“Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” –Emma Watson
“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.” –Carrie Fisher
“I think part of the reason why we hold onto something so tight is because we fear something so great won’t happen twice.”-Unknown
“Legen-wait for it-dairy.”-How I Met Your Mother
“Do not judge yourself harshly. Without mercy for ourselves we cannot love the world.” –Siddhartha Gautama
“Fate loves the fearless.” –James Russell Lowell
“Never frown even when you are sad because you never know who could be falling in love with your smile.” –Erin Majors
“Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. List to your heart, it knows.” –Native American Proverb
“If you love something, set it free; if it comes back to you, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.” –Richard Bach
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” –John Lennon
“You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.” –Benjamin Mee
“Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile.” –Connor Franta
“We don’t die inhaling. We exhale. We leave it all behind.” –Take Me Home
“The only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.” –Taylor Swift
“For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be who you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You have to be where you are to get where you’re going.” –Amy Poehler
“I’ve survived a lot of things and I’ll probably survive this.” –J.D Salinger
“To this awful news, try not to hold on. The day will come, the sun will rise, and we’ll be fine.” –The Avett Brothers
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” –John Steinbeck
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” –Ernest Hemingway
“She’ll only be bound by the things she chooses.” –Lucius
“Every time you tell your daughter you yell at her out of love, you teach her to confuse anger with kindness, which seems like a good idea till she grows up to trust men who hurt her cause they look so much like you.” –Rupi Kaur
“The real power of a man is the size of the smile of the woman sitting next to him.” –Unknown
“I’m Chuck Bass.” –Gossip Girl
“Stay away from people who make you feel like you’re hard to love.” –Unknown
“ I believe that every single event in life that happens is an opportunity to choose love over fear.” –Oprah Winfrey
“When we are not sure, we are alive.” –Graham Greene
“There’s always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.” –Unknown
“Somebody told me that this is the place, where everything’s better, and everything’s safe.” –One Tree Hill
“So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” –Marilyn Monroe
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” –Bob Marley
“We’ve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” –Harry Potter & The Order of The Pheonix
“When you’re young, you just run, but you come back to what you need.” –Track 11, 1989
“You know, I figure if I can make coffee, there isn’t anything I can’t do.” –Friends
“At the end of the day, you can either focus on what is tearing you apart or what’s holding you together.” –Unknown
“A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch but on her own wings.” –Unknown
“If you aren’t gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.” –Johnny Cash
“Be a warrior, not a worrier.” –Unknown
“Love could change the world in a moment, but what do I know?” –Ed Sheeran
“So far you’ve survived 100% of your worst days. You’re doing great.” –Unknown
“So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.” -Sheryl Sandberg
“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than the stories and people we’re quoting.” –John Green