Short Quotes That Hit Different

Sometimes you’re just looking for something short and simple that is a bit different than the usual stuff, which is why we have put together a list of all the best short quotes for your next post. And if you’re looking for unique short quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

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Short Quotes That Hit Different

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Take time to smell the roses.” –Proverb

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

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

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

“What we think, we become.” —Buddha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“You are your choices.” – Seneca

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Live life to the fullest.” – Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Positive energy knows no boundaries.” – Lu Wei

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys

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

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

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

“Love makes a family.” — Florence Nightingale

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz

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

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

“Love is an untamed force.” – Paulo Coelho

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Live and let live.” – Yiddish Proverb

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

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

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

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

“Let a hundred flowers bloom.” – Mao Zedong

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I just need you and some sunsets” – Atticus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Filthy water cannot be washed.” – African Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Earth laughs in flowers.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro

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

“And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So that is it for our list of Short Quotes That Hit Different. We hope you found the perfect one!

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