Short Quotes of the Day for Simple Daily Inspiration

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Short Quotes of the Day

“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha

“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

“Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.” – Meghan Markle

“We can always be chasing the sun.” — Sara Bareilles

“Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.” – Lindy Hughes

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” – Elie Wiesel

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”  – Ed Viesturs

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.” ― Anthony Brandt

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”  – Edith Wharton

“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies” – Paulo Coelho

“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley

“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin

“Do good and good will come to you.” —Adam Lowy

“I don’t think you can define love.” – Harry Styles

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” – Shelley Long

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss

“Flowers grow out of dark moments.” –Corita Kent

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on It.” – Danny Kaye

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” —Dalai Lama

“When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy

“Think of the day alive with sunshine, not the dismal days of rain.” ― Robert E. Farley

“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen

“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.” — Mitch Albom

“Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese

“Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain” – Edward Thomas, Rain

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.” – P. C. Cast

“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

“A positive attitude awakens inner strength, energy, motivation, and initiative.” – Remez Sasson

“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.

“Love is an untamed force.” – Paulo Coelho

“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” – David Letterman

“The memories we make with our family is everything.” — Candace Cameron Bure

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air…”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.” – Henry David Thoreau

”I’m here. I love you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

“Earth laughs in flowers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.” — Loren Eiseley

“Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” – Eeyore

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” – Johnny Carson

“Take time to smell the roses.” –Proverb

“So lovely was the loneliness of a wild lake.” – Edgar Allen Poe

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

“Let a hundred flowers bloom.” – Mao Zedong

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ―Confucius

“Live life to the fullest.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” – Ray Bradbury

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs

“There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” – Patrick Ness

“Courage doesn’t always roar.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“Where there is lasting love, there is a family.” — Shere Hite

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis

“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl

“Filthy water cannot be washed.” – African Proverb

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus

“Love makes a family.” — Florence Nightingale

“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer

“I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu

“People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important.” – Kirsty Coventry

“Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.” – Demetri Martin

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” –John Harrigan

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski

“Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks.” – Natalie Portman

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charlie Brown

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark

“What’s done is done.” – William Shakespeare

“Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family.” — Paul Pearsall

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” –Roland R. Kemler

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost

”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I am like water so to say, I will find my way!”― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“I want to be with you until my last page.” – A.R. Asher

“Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” –Anmol Andore

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun.”– Remez Sasson

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.”- Joseph Addison

“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus

“Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company.” – Samantha Camargo

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda

“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What we think, we become.” —Buddha

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” -Max Muller

“Don’t worry, Be Happy.” – Bobby McFerrin

“The most important thing in the world is family and love.” — John Wooden

“Positive energy knows no boundaries.” – Lu Wei

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe

“You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas

“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell

“One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” -Pablo Neruda

“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro

“Life is just like water, enjoy each and every moment before it vaporizes.” – Samra Khan

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis

“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Bring sunshine into the place you enter.” ― Latika Teotia

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another…” – Charlie Brown

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

“Sunset is the opening music of the night.”― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” –Therese of Lisieux

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“The water tells none of its secrets.” ― Nikos Engonopoulos

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha

“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch

“River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.” – Barten Holyday

“A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams.” – Israelmore Ayivor

“I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.” – Jake Owen

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”— Standing Bear

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle

“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.” – Langston Hughes

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Be like water. Flow, crash, fly!”― Md. Ziaul Haque

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.”  –Buddha

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” — Gary Snyder

“The sound of water is worth more than all the poets’ words.” – Octavio Paz

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E. E. Cummings

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Love, like a river, will cut a new path whenever it meets an obstacle.” – Crystal Middlemas

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway

“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball

“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

“I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz

“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Keep going. Is not as difficult as you feel it is. Don’t give up.” – Brandon Sanderson

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra

“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

“Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz

“Some days you have to create your own sunshine.”- Sam Sundquist

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni

“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod

“Like water, every moment is precious.”― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of waterfall.” – Anthony Hincks

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn

“Tomorrow it may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” – The Beatles

“And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou

“It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” – Naval Ravikant

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

“Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” –Bryant McGill

“Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower.” – Vera Nazarian

“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi

“Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Live and let live.” – Yiddish Proverb

“Love me like water, deep as sea, pure as water, wild as ocean.” – Kirpa Kaur

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown

“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman

“May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.” -Nhat Hanh

“Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot

“Whenever the water rises, the boat will rise too.” – Chinese Proverb

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” – A. A. Milne

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” – Roy T. Bennett

“To love at all is to be vulnerable” – C.S. Lewis

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“The sea is an underwater museum still awaiting its visitors.” – Phillip Diole

“We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius

“I believe you make your day. You make your life.” – Brad Pitt

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” — Michael J. Fox

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé

“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift

“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys

“Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” –Dr. SunWolf

“I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” – Winnie the Pooh

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make It.” – Marcus Aurelius

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“We may have our differences, but nothing’s more important than family.” — Coco

“Challenges are what make life interesting.” – Joshua Marine

“Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.” – J.R. Rim

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” –William Shakespeare

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” —Bill Gates

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Do not turn me into restless waters you cannot promise to be my stream.”― Sanober Khan

“No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” -Sheryl Crow

“Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries.” – Anna Taylor

“Everything looks cute when it’s small.” – Cynthia Rawley

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan

“Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” – Rachel Roy

“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom.” –Jim Carrey

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” — Zeno

“Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” —Jim Thompson

“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou

“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream” – Bernard Williams

“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“In time and with water everything changes.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”— Leigh Hunt

“A river cuts through rock not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins

“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” –Stephanie Skeem

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie

“I just need you and some sunsets” – Atticus

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor

“You choose the life you live.” – Kim Kiyosaki

“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” – Rhonda Byrne

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

“Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” – Alrded Lord Tennyson

“Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina

“Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero

“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” – Dr. Suess

“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler

“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” — Mario Puzo

“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise

”Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone.” – Margaret Atwood

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

“Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home.” — Anthony Liccione

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” –Audrey Hepburn

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” –Matshona Dhliwayo

“You are your choices.” – Seneca

“Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” -A.A. Milne

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais

“A calm water is like a still soul.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.” ― Frank Lane

“Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

“Every flower blooms in its own time.” –Ken Petti

“Always wear cute pajamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.” – Joel Madden

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” –Henri Matisse

“No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” ―Sai Pradeep

“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.” —Baltasar Gracian

“The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.” – Martin Firrell

“Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.” – Richard Lewis

“The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.” — George Santayana

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

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