Uplifting Quotes

• Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Life, Encouraging, Work Out

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• This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Positive, Time, Yesterday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Elliot Cabot (1887). “The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a General Index and a Memoir”

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• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Success, Winning

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Apr 16, 2016

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• Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Encouraging, Healing, Hard Times

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.191, Wildside Press LLC

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  Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Encouraging

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• A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

  Joyce Meyer

  Depression, Attitude, Giving

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013

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• 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

  Change, Encouraging, Recovery

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 21, 2014

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• Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive

  Ratan Tata

  Moving On, Encouraging, Mean

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  Og Mandino

  Happiness, Smile, Happy

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• Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?

  Max Lucado

  Positive, Worry, Lasts

  Max Lucado (2012). “Come Thirsty: No Heart Too Dry for His Touch”, p.101, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Sunset, Sky

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 26, 2011

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• We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Leadership, Spiritual

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• If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Motivational, Depression, Dream

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.17, Penguin

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• Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

  John Spence

  Encouraging, Life Changing, Positive Attitude

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  Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Relationship, Wisdom

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

  Charlie Chaplin

  Cheer Up, Optimistic, Positive Attitude

  "Swing High Little Girl". Opening song written and sung by Charlie Chaplin for the re-release of "The Circus" (1928), 1969.

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• It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to outdo them.

  Doug Larson

  People, Inspire, Matter

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• Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

  Alice Walker

  Motivational, Change, Positive Change

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• Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

  Brian Weiss

  Soul, Challenges, Path

  FaceBook post by Dr. Brian Weiss from Jul 12, 2013

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Once you choose hope, anything's possible

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

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• Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Mind, Input, Spirit

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• You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Being Strong

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• The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Kindness, Lying

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2014). “The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought”, p.24, BookBaby

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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