Who doesn’t love inspiring, uplifting, or comforting words of wisdom? Here, you’ll always find a spot to browse through a list of quotes that aren’t mine but equally dear to me. I’ll also try to update it as we go, so if you decide to circle back, you’ll hopefully find new gems. Enjoy! Oh, and feel free to leave one of your favorites in the comments.

“I think it’s beautiful, the way you sparkle, when you talk about the things you love.” – Atticus

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek!” – Joseph Campbell

“Everything is on fire, but everyone I love is doing beautiful things and trying to make life worth living, and I know I don’t have to believe in everything, but I believe in that.” – Nikita Gill

“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.” – Brené Brown

“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.” – Pema Chödrön

“May we raise children who love the unloved things – the dandelion, the worms and spiderlings. Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they run towards the sun… And when they’re grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice, may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the ones.” – Nicolette Sowder

“Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.” – Lorraine Anderson

“I used to think I was introverted because I really like being alone, but it turns out that I just like being at peace, and I am very extroverted around the people that bring me peace.” – Myrah Moon

“Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners.” – William Shakespeare

“Whatever you choose to do, leave tracks. That means don’t do it just for yourself. You will want to leave the world a little better for your having lived.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“‘You are the poetry I write everyday,’ I said. ‘How can people be poetry?’ he asked. ‘People can be poetry when they are the day and night to the same person and their presence feels like the warmth of winter sun, like the vibe of a timeless song; when they hold the universe in their eyes you find your home there too.’” – Aaliya Mallick

“Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.” – Fred Rogers

“Hurt people hurt others, but luckily, healed people heal others. Safe people shelter others. Free spirits free others. Enlightened people illuminate others. And love always wins. So shine your light of love on all who may cross your path in life, because what you do matters.” – Mel Robbins

“It’s the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; if I can ease one life of aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.” – Emily Dickinson

“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde

“Oftentimes when the world feels chaotic, we begin to feel as if it is somehow inappropriate to have joy. Have your joy! Joy is a form of radical self-care. Joy energizes us to take on even the most difficult circumstances. When we have joy, especially in the midst of challenging times, we are saying to the world ‘I will define the current state of the world around me instead of allowing it to define me.’ Today, regardless of what is happening, empower yourself by embracing your joy.” – Cleo Wade

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.” – Vincent van Gogh

“The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.” – Rumi

“I used to separate good days from bad until I thought of myself as an ocean. I used to split times I felt strong from when I felt weak until I imagined myself as the sea. Calm and rocky, wild and soft, still and powerful and vast and more than any one thing. In the ocean it’s hard to divorce one mood from another, one wave from the next. Now, on my worst days, I think of how good life is too, how I still can greet joy while swimming through grief. How fragile strength feels. How I’m not any one thing in any one moment on any one day. I’m all of it and all of it is me.” – Hannah Napier Rosenberg

“Home is where you hear love within the stillness.” – Raquel Franco

“I used to pray that God would feed the hungry, or do this or that, but now I pray that he will guide me to do whatever I’m supposed to do, what I can do. I used to pray for answers, but now I’m praying for strength. I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us and we change things.” – Mother Theresa

“I’m going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life.” – Elsie de Wolfe

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