31 Of The Best Quotes You Need To Hear When Life Seems Totally Out Of Control

"You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved."

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1.

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

— Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

2.

“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.”

— Banksy

3.

“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved.”

— Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

4.

“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.”

— Tom Brokaw

5.

“She might be a little introverted, livelier of movement than of conversation, neither bashful nor forward, with a soul that seemed submerged, but in a radiant moistness. Opalescent on the surface but translucent in her depths…”

― Vladimir Nabokov, The Enchanter

6.

“Sometimes you just got to mute people for a week and enjoy your life.”

— MR

7.

“Everything you do and whoever you are now is all because of you.”

— Unknown

8.

“In general, people are not drawn to perfection…”

— Robert Glover

9.

“While there’s life, there’s hope.”

— Cicero

10.

“May all that has been reduced to noise in you become music again.”

David Teems

11.

“Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.”

— Charles M. Schulz

12.

“What you value defines you; what you desire controls you.”

— Unknown

13.

“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.

“Commitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.”

— Unknown

15.

“Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”

— Richard M Nixon (who destroyed himself)

16.

“The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.”

— Denis Waitley

17.

“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”

― Epicurus

18.

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”

— Napolean Hill

19.

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

— Khalil Gibran

20.

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”

— Jim Rohn

21.

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

— Lao Tzu

22.

“If you are still looking for that one person who will change your life, take a look in the mirror.”

— Roman Price

23.

“The only person you should make happy in this life, is yourself. Part of that could be by making others happy.”

— Lorenzvc

24.

“When you judge others, you do not define them; you define yourself.”

— Earl Nightingale

25.

“The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

26.

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

― Henry Miller

27.

“I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die…Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it – our life – hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.”

— Marcel Proust

28.

“I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.”

― Takeshi Shudo

29.

“I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

30.

“The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrongdoer.”

— Marcus Aurelius in Meditations

31.

“Dream big dreams. Small dreams have no magic.”

— Dottie Boreyko Thought Catalog Logo Mark