Quotes to live by

I recently read Color for the Soul by Pam Rhodes. It’s a book of quotes from different people from different times. The book explains that every color will speak to you and tell you something. In every color, you will find something you need (red for relationships), something that will be of help (blue for for healing and comfort), something that will inspire you (yellow is for encouragement) and something that will make you hold on to your dreams (green is for growth and change). The quotes listed in the book are truly a balm to the soul. Here are some of my favorites.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. –Eleonor Roosevelt

We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can fly only by embracing each other. –Luciano de Crescenzo

What counts in making a happy marriage is not how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. –George Levinger

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. –Marlene Dietrich

Friendship is love without wings. –Lord Byron

The most beautiful discovery true friends make  is that they can grow separately without growing apart. –Elizabeth Foley

Take time to come home to yourself every day. – Robin Casarjean

If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. –Martin Luther King Jr.

A woman is like a tea bag, you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water. –Nancy Raegum

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. –The Buddha

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. –Swedish proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials. –Confucius

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. –John F. Kennedy

Inside a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong. –Mohammad Ali

I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palm of my hands. –Book of Isaiah

What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do. –Anonymous

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible. –St. Francis of Assisi

Strength does not come from winning your struggles. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. –Arnold Schwarzenegger

Let me win, but I cannot win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt. –Motto of the Special Olympics

God has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and love. –Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy

Pain is never permanent. –Teresa of Avila

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. –Theodore Roosevelt

You can’t have everything, where would you put it? –Ann Landers

Failure is an opportunity to begin again more intelligently. –Henry Ford

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. –Oscar Wilde

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done, whether you like it or not. –Charles Kingsley

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. –Watterson Lowe

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. –Joan Baez

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. –Leo Tolstoy

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. –Sister Elizabeth Kenny

It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back. –Abraham Lincoln

I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts. –Sylvester Stallone

If you’re not failing, you’re not trying anything. –Woody Allen

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter life simply by altering his attitude of mind. –William James

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. –Winston Churchill

May these quotes teach, inspire, encourage and embrace your soul.

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