Sometimes, quotes can just hit different, stop you in your tracks, and make you think in a new way. This collection of quotes are so poignant and profound that they will take your breath away.
Quotes That Take Your Breath Away
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Khalil Gibran
- In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “It is not the length of life, but the depth.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
- “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
- “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
- “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” — Marcus Aurelius
- “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” — Viktor Frankl
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius
- “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver
- “The only way to deal with this cruel world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus
- “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
- “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” — Dylan Thomas
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot
- “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton
- “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” — Haruki Murakami
- “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tunes without the words — and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” — Mary Anne Radmacher
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
- “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” — Sigmund Freud
- “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle
- “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.” — Sarah Williams
- “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” — Lena Horne
- “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” — Carl Jung
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” — Edith Wharton
- “The most beautiful and profound way to change yourself is to accept yourself completely, as imperfect as you are.” — Maxime Lagacé
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Freedom lies in being bold.” — Robert Frost
- “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.” — Pema Chödrön
- “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus
- “You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.” — C.S. Lewis
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
- I have 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
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” — André Gide
- “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end.” — Gilda Radner
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” — Bob Marley
- “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” — Albert Einstein
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” — Vivian Greene
- “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke
- “It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” — Vince Lombardi
