Epic Quotes

For my second blog, I figured I would share some encouraging quotes I've found about life, that inspire me to LIVE.

"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful- that will be my life."

~Elsie de Wolfe

"I have decided to be happy, because it is good for my health."

~Voltaire

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

~Diane Ackerman

"I'll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it."

~Unknown

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

~Maya Angelou

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

~George Eliot

"When God gives us 'No' for an answer, keep in mind that there is a much greater 'Yes.' His 'No' is not a rejection, but a redirection."

~Unknown

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

~Og Mandino

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I intended to be."

~Douglas Adams

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

~James D. Miles

"You were given this life because you were strong enough to live it."

~Unknown

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours- it is an amazing journey- and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins."

~Bob Moawad

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."

~Unknown

"All you have to do is be yourself and live the story that no one else can live- the story of your own unique life. Be proud. Be confident. And most of all, be happy."

~Unknown

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."

~Dr. Seuss

"The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

~Steve Jobs

"Your journey has molded you for greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."

~Asha Tyson

"If you love someone, tell them. Forget about the rules or the fear of looking ridiculous. What is truly ridiculous is passing up on an opportunity to tell someone that your heart is invested in them."

~Unknown

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

J.K. Rowling

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever. In it's place is something that you have left behind. Let it be something good."

~Unknown