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1. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters—204 if you’re in Japan.” – Claire Coo
2. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
3. “If there’s a thing I’ve learned in my life, it’s to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love—those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don’t.” – Cassandra Clare
4. “Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed—its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” – Og Mandino
5. “Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.” – Erol Ozan
6. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain, when you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami
7. “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending.” – Chico Xavier
8. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett
9. “Show respect even to people who don’t deserve it—not as a reflection of their character, but as a reflection of yours.” – Dave Willis
10. “All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed—only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” –
11. “Short cuts make long delays.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
12. “People only get better with experience if they are willing to learn and understand the lessons that are given to them through the bad times in their lives.” – Jamie Alderton
13. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard
14. “One man’s fault is another man’s lesson.” – Maltese Proverb
15. “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind, be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
16. “You just can’t let life happen to you, you have to make life happen.” – Idowu Koyenikan
17. “In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at the time you beg for forgiveness.” – Toba Beta
18. “Sometimes, painful things can teach us lessons that we didn’t think we needed to know.” – Amy Poehler
19. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” – Joseph Campbell
20. “I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do—if you want to be extraordinary—you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.” – Kelly Cutrone
21. “The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” – Roy T. Bennett
22. “In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life—it goes on.” – Robert Frost
23. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” – Nicholas Sparks
24. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes, it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
25. “Over the years, I’ve come to realize that mistakes are just lessons—life lessons, almost like school. Once you’ve learned a lesson in class, you move on to the next lesson because now you know it. Well, mistakes are exactly the same.” – Rashard Royster
26. “If you can dream it, you can do it.” –
27. “If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
28. “Two things define us—our patience when we have nothing and our attitude when we have everything.” – Anonymous
29. “If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” – Grace Murray Hopper
30. “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.” – David Russell
31. “Don’t beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don’t always have to know who you are. You don’t have to have the big picture, or know where you’re heading. Sometimes, it’s enough just to know what you’re going to do next.” – Sophie Kinsella
32. “Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
33. “Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
34. “Don’t just learn, experience. Don’t just read, absorb. Don’t just change, transform. Don’t just relate, advocate. Don’t just promise, prove. Don’t just criticize, encourage. Don’t just think, ponder. Don’t just take, give. Don’t just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don’t just hear, listen. Don’t just talk, act. Don’t just tell, show. Don’t just exist, live.” – Roy T. Bennett
35. “We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us—the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us—people that don’t even matter—while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” – C. JoyBell C.
36. “It’s time to say goodbye. But I think goodbyes are sad, and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell
37. “When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
38. “Enjoy the little things in life, for one day, you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” – Robert Brault
39. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
40. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” – Henry Ford
41. “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes, good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
42. “Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find you’re here, and now intolerable, and it makes you unhappy, you have three options—remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.” – Eckhart Tolle
43. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
44. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Saunders Law
45. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
46. “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
47. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by every moment that takes your breath away.” – Anonymous
48. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
49. “If we have no end goal in mind, we are simply leaving it to chance that our life will follow a favorable path and that we will reach a desirable destination.” – Steve Gold
50. “My father taught me a good lesson—don’t get too low when things go wrong and don’t get too high when things are good.” – Robert Perish
51. “There is a lesson that has been taught by many famous philosophers from antiquity up to modern times. The lesson is—everything in moderation.” – David Bolton
52. “No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can’t go all the way around.” –
53. “The only way that we can live is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” – C. JoyBell C.
54. “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca
55. “It’s clearly easier to get the snake out of the sack than it is to shove it back.” – Mary Morris
56. “The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.” – Tony Robbins
57. “If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.” – Lev Grossman
58. “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King
59. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react.” – Tony Robbins
60. “A man who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.” – Dave Thomas
61. “The older you get, the more likely you are to realize that opportunities are not going to just crawl into your lap, and you might have to really fight for the thing you want.” – Yashmin Khatun
62. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
63. “There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday. If you truly want to accomplish your goals, you must engulf yourself in today.” – Noel de Jesus
64. “Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved.” – Swami Satchidananda
65. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
66. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are, you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you. Not much.” – Jim Rohn
67. “The minute you get away from fundamentals—whether it’s proper technique, , or mental preparation—the bottom can fall out of your game, your schoolwork, your job, whatever you’re doing.” – Michael Jordan
68. “Avoid doing the same you always do, or the day will fill like an incoming tide.” – Allan Jenkins
69. “One lesson that we must continue to relearn is not to be afraid to ask for help from people who are doing the things we want to do, going the places we want to go, and being the person we want to become.” – David DeNotaris
70. “One of the most important lessons of my life forced itself on me at about the time I was graduating from grammar school. It was a lesson that turned into a major principle—you are subject to your environment. Therefore, select the environment that will best develop you toward your desired objective.” – W. Clement Stone
71. “Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” – Roy T. Bennett
72. “Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” – Roy T. Bennett
73. “Be humble to those who praise you, pleasant to those who honor you, kind to those who cherish you, good to those who love you, and generous to those who adore you.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
74. “A little thought and a little kindness are worth more than a great deal of money.” – Anonymous
75. “Never speak from a place of hate, jealousy, anger, or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes, it’s best to be quiet.” – Tony A. Gaskins, Jr.
76. “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean. If a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi
77. “Be kind to everyone you meet no matter where they are in life, because tomorrow, they might just be the person you need to open the door for you.” – Anonymous
78. “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
79. “We’ve got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity.” –
80. “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find each other and to feel—that is the purpose of life.” – Walter Mitty
81. “One never knows what small changes we make over time that can benefit many others. Sometimes, it is little more than a friendly gesture to help someone who is struggling at work and who goes on to achieve great things.” – Byron Pulsifer
82. “When something happens and it causes us pain, the pain is there to teach us a lesson. It is not so that we feel pain for the sake of pain.” – Cave Man
83. “When I look back on my life I can see that the hardships I’ve faced have been essential for my growth—the lessons I have learned continue to help me.” – Annalisa Cunningham
84. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes.” –
85. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
86. “But where the learning becomes greater is when we face adversity. That is when some of life’s greatest lessons teach us so much more than if we got to the top and stayed there. And you will also find successful people will tell you that the greatest lessons learned is when they face adversity.” – Catherine Pulsifer
87. “Finding failures reveals what not to do, and this discovery is a key lesson to understand.” – Byron Pulsifer
88. “To be successful, you must act big, think big, and talk big.” – Aristotle Onassis
89. “The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them, and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.” – Jeff Olson
90. “My greatest life lessons have not come from any achievements I have attained but rather from the failures, heartaches, and setbacks that I have experienced.” – Dr. Marshall Hennington
91. “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are—precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.” – Al Franken
92. “Richard Branson struggled through life as a kid and how he experienced failures but didn’t let it faze him. His story is something anyone can learn life lessons from.” – Norbert Richards
93. “So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you’re moving in the right direction.” – Oprah Winfrey
94. “Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again.” – Dawson’s Creek
95. “You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on.” – Sue Fitzmaurice
96. “Letting go does not mean you stop caring, it means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale
97. “Breathe, let go, and remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
98. “Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.” – Steve Maraboli
99. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore, it’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
100. “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
101. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
102. “Sooner or later, we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown
103. “There are things in life we don’t want to happen but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.” – Nancy Stephan
104. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
105. “One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” – B. Nicole
106. “Peace is something you’ll never experience if you keep letting things you can’t control control you. Let it go.” – Trent Shelton
107. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” – Haruki Murakami
108. “It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you interpret the lesson.” – Michelle C. Ustaszeski
109. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.” – John C. Maxwell
110. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz
111. “Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.” – Mary Catherine Bateson
112. “The only is the one from which we learn nothing.” – John Powell
113. “But war is also an incredible teacher—a brutal instructor. We learned lessons in war written in blood about sorrow, loss, and pain.” –
114. “Life’s lessons take a lifetime to learn, that’s just how it is in life’s classroom. But as we learn, we teach others. We are all teachers in the school of life.” – Olive Steele
115. “No matter how diligent you are about teaching your children right from wrong, the truth is that the majority of the lessons they learn from you will be the ones you teach without meaning to.” – Brittany Ann
116. “Yep, we can all learn plenty from each other—even those we think don’t know as much as we do—if we can just set our egos aside. There’s no shortage of lessons. We’re all each others’ students and teachers.” – John Penberthy
117. “May you learn lots in the coming year. May life lessons be ones that you see. On your birthday, we wish only the best for you today and throughout the coming year.” – Catherine Pulsifer
118. “The best lesson anyone can learn from business school is an awareness of what it can’t teach you—all the ins and outs of everyday business life.” – Mark H. McCormack
119. “So learn your lessons and be thorough with the long road of experience.” – Florence Scovel Shinn
120. “Not only do we need models to grow, we also need mentors. Mentors are people who’ve followed Christ longer than we have, and are able to share life lessons.” – Rick Warren
121. “But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.” – Chris Colfer
122. “You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” – Roy T. Bennett
123. “Live the life of your dreams. Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the and opinions of others.” – Roy T. Bennett
124. “Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.” – Roy T. Bennett
125. “Never be ashamed! There’s some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.” – J.K. Rowling
126. “Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember—the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you.” – Zig Ziglar
127. “I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure—try to please everybody.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
128. “Don’t let anyone ever make you feel like you don’t deserve what you want.” – Heath Ledger
129. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – Nicholas Sparks
130. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou
131. “Do not fear failure, but rather, fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett
132. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
133. “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways—either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.” – Dalai Lama
134. “If you are driven by fear, anger, or pride, nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility, and peace, nature will serve you.” – Amit Ray
135. “Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.” – Orison Swett Marden
136. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg
137. “Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now, we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvellously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
138. “I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain.” –
139. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley
140. “At times, you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda
141. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
142. “I’ve come to realize that every single day, we face moments that are difficult, uncertain, and scary. Your life requires courage.” – Mel Robbins
143. “One of the best things about finally showing courage is that you inspire those around you to do the same.” – Olivia Benjamin
144. “My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years, this lesson had served me well.” – Yanni
145. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes, and move on.” – Les Brown
146. “I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” – A.G.
147. “A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back—you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” – Jodi Picoult
148. “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” – Roy T. Bennett
149. “I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.” – Katie Taylor
150. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
151. “Most people claim that they feel like they’re trapped in a rat race, without an exit. While we can all feel this way from time to time, it’s important to know that there is a way out.” – Debeena Harris
152. “You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos
153. “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book, or simply close it.” – Shannon L. Alder
154. “‘Tis past, ’tis over, deem it dead. Accept the lesson, look ahead. No one , fresh hope instead.” – Wilhelmina Stitch
155. “Life always offers a second chance, it is called ‘tomorrow’.” – Dylan Thomas
156. “I have taken the biggest lesson of all from animals, needless to say, and discovering that living for the day is the way to live.” – Jackie Weaver
157. “You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.” –
158. “Never sacrifice three things—your family, your heart, and your dignity.” – Anonymous
159. “You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.” – Jodi Picoult
160. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett
161. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” – Jojo Moyes
162. “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
163. “Don’t change so people will like you. , and the right people will love the real you.” – Anonymous
164. “I firmly believe that we are all given signs and dreams, and put in situations that define who we were and who we are to become. All of it points towards our destiny. All we need to do is listen carefully to the messages and . It is in our dreams that we find our true identities and where our destiny awaits.” – Isaiah Washington
165. “There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.” – Anthony Robbins
166. “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
167. “The most dangerous notion a young man can acquire is that there is no more room for originality. There is no large room for anything else.” – Henry Ford
168. “We are who we choose to be.” – Green Goblin
169. “The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are, and recognize, first and foremost, you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.” – Wayne Dyer
170. “The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.” – Peter Shaffer
171. “It is, therefore, my considered opinion that for those of us who genuinely believe that we were destined for greatness, that we are the best versions of what God actually created, and that the only direction that we will always move is a direction that leads us to ultimate success.” – Abraham Mutwol
172. “Never say ‘never’. If you know you can do what you love, don’t give up.” – Justin Bieber
173. “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” – Roy T. Bennett
174. “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” – Plato
175. “See what is possible if you never give up.” – Justin Bieber
176. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
177. “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.” – Sophia Loren
178. “If failure should visit you, never quit. The greatest lessons can be learned through failure. Why is this? It is because failure shows you what went wrong and what went right. Within each failure are the seeds of success.” – Catherine Pulsifer
179. “Don’t listen to labels, they don’t matter. It’s an imaginary sticker people slap on you with the word they think you are written on it. It doesn’t matter who they think you are. It matters who you think you are.” – Samantha Young
180. “I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was, instead, they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.” – Marilyn Monroe
181. “Knowing when to forgive yourself and correct yourself is a blessing.” – Angel Moreira
182. “My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.” – Steve Maraboli
183. “I am not someone who is ashamed of my past, I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.” – Drew Barrymore
184. “The world is what you think of it, so think of it differently, and your life will change.” – Paul Arden
185. “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
186. “It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views—for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.” – Aristotle
187. “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.” – Zig Ziglar
188. “A great attitude becomes a great day, which becomes a great month, which becomes a great year, which becomes a great life.” – Mandy Hale
189. “The rich tapestry of life is mediated through our emotions, as a world without them would be grey and empty.” – Dr Harry Barry
190. “Making reflection a habit tunes you into necessary alignments you need to make to keep you on the course to the good life.” – Dr. Bradford A. Seaman
191. “In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
192. “Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.” – Daniel Defoe
193. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more?” – Roy T. Bennett
194. “One of the most important secrets of life that will be more contented is the act of gratitude and being grateful for the things you have in your life. It is so natural to get caught up in continually needing more preparation, that we don’t stop to welcome the things that we have now.” – Adam Green
195. “Learn the lesson of thanksgiving. It is due to God, it is due to ourselves. Thanksgiving for the past makes us trustful in the present and hopeful for the future. What He has done is the pledge of what He will do.” – A. C. A. Hall
196. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” – Roy T. Bennett
197. “What gets measured gets improved.” – Robin S. Sharma
198. “You only struggle because you’re ready to grow, but aren’t willing to let go.” – Drew Gerald
199. “Make improvements, not . Seek respect, not attention.” – Roy T. Bennett
200. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” – Roy T. Bennett
201. “No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.” – Roy T. Bennett
202. “You don’t need brains. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth, the more experience you are sure to get.” – L. Frank Baum
203. “We all make them. The difference is what we do after we make the mistake, how we see the mistake—a learning experience or a failure.” – Catherine Pulsifer
204. “Think of each failure, each heartache, and each loss in your life as a lesson in courage and resilience.” – Kate Anderson
205. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” – Richard Branson
206. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” – Rita Mae Brown
207. “And I believe that there’s a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience, and getting the lesson is how you move forward.” – Oprah Winfrey
208. “It’s a funny thing about remembering incidents that happened years ago, and some of these incidents taught us a great lesson.” – Byron Pulsifer
209. “There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.” – Melanie Koulouris
210. “Your past does not equal your future.” – Anthony Robbins
211. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
212. “Behind every adversity is an opportunity. If you lament over the adversity, you will miss the opportunity.” – Ajaero Tony Martins
213. “Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
214. “The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
215. “I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on.” – Rascal Flatts
216. “We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future.” – Ken Poirot
217. “If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.” – Lao Tzu
218. “I don’t dwell on the things that are too late to fix, but I do my best to get life’s lessons and put them into action.” – Les Brown
219. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure. And like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
220. “The great love is gone. There are still little loves—friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?” – Mercedes Lackey
221. “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” – Roy T. Bennett
222. “Sometimes, someone comes into your life, so unexpectedly, takes your heart by surprise, and changes your life forever.” – Anonymous
223. “One day, someone will be 100% honest with you and will love you forever, so don’t give up trying to find them, they’re looking for you too.” – Anonymous
224. “Find someone who makes you realize three things–one, that home is not a place, but a feeling. Two, that time is not measured by a clock, but by moments. And three, that heartbeat is not heard, but felt and shared.” – Anonymous
225. “Someone who really loves you sees what a mess you can be, how moody you can get, how hard you are to handle, but still wants you.” – Anonymous
226. “And in the end, we were all just humans—drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
227. “One important thing to consider is that we are born ready to give and receive love, but our life lessons get in the way of experiencing this gift.” – TJ Gibbs
228. “Every relationship offers one of two things—a lesson or a blessing. In many instances, the lesson is the ultimate blessing.” – Anquanette Gaspard
229. “Her life was not easy, yet she was a living example of someone who did the best with what life handed her. Thank you, Mom. We will always be grateful for the life lessons you taught and the love you shared.” – Sandra Bullock Smith
230. “I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” – L. Frank Baum
231. “Train your mind to see the good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” – Anonymous
232. “Take responsibility for your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett
233. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
234. “People are more likely to please themselves before attempting to please you. It’s only wise to encourage them to do what makes them happy so that they would eventually seek your own happiness.” – Anonymous
235. “The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea.” – Andrew Weil
236. “Life is an adventure, and getting wherever you are going is half the fun.” – Amy
237. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
238. “Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.” – Scylar Tyberius
239. “Is it not possible that you are also a lonely person? But I am an older man, and I can live with my loneliness, quietly. You are young, and it must be difficult to accept your loneliness. You must sometimes want to fight it.” – Natsume Sōseki
240. “People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.” – Eudora Welty
241. “Anybody who thinks there’s nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail, someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the universe—the principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.” – Athol Fugard
242. “People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.” – Keri Hilson
243. “It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite—that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure, and simple—and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.” – Mark Twain
244. “You can’t wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn’t.” – Toni Aleo
245. “Many of us go down a sad path when we let our egos make us suffer.” – Mo Gawdat
246. “All organisms have an inherent tendency to preserve their existence—it is from this fact that psychologists have postulated an ‘instinct’ of self-preservation. The first ‘duty’ of an organism is to be alive.” – Erich fromm
247. “The biggest lesson I’ve learned was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and all the food you want to eat, you ought never to complain about anything.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
248. “To all of you who choose to look the other way every day because you seem more frightened of the changes that can prevent catastrophic climate change than the catastrophic climate change itself, your is almost worst of all.” – Greta Thunberg
249. “Revolutionary discipline depends on political consciousness—on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed. It takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.” –
