Quotes to help lift your spirits

If you are needing a little pick me up for your mood, there is no better solution than a book. Here are some uplifting quotes from books to help lift your spirits, curated by the Spiritti review team.

“A fighter can be a winner, but that doesn’t make a winner a fighter.”

―Mark Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

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

―Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“Do you remember how that life yearned out of childhood toward the ‘great thing’? I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one. That is why it does not cease to be difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.”

―Rainer Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don’t worry about losing your “personality,” as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.”

―F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.”

―Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”

―Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.”

―John Green, Looking for Alaska

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Inspiring Quotes on Health, Life & Balance

Health encompasses healthy habits, thoughts, coping mechanisms, and peaceful ways of relating to our environment and to others. Here are some of the best inspiring quotes on health, life and balance, curated by the Spiritti review team.

“Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.” – B.K.S. Iyengar

“To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” -William Londen

“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.” – Joseph Pilates

“The human body has been designed to resist an infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment. The secret of good health lies in successful adjustment to changing stresses on the body.” – Harry J. Johnson

“To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep the mind strong and clear.” – Buddha

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.”-Anne Wilson Schaef

“You can’t control what goes on outside, but you CAN control what goes on inside.” – Unknown

“The cheerful mind perseveres, and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.” – Swami Vivekananda

“It is health that is the real wealth, and not pieces of gold and silver.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos- the trees, the clouds, everything.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it, and watch the whole transform.” – Rene Descartes

“Every negative belief weakens the partnership between mind and body.” – Deepak Chopra

“Health is a state of complete mental, social and physical well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” – World Health Organization, 1948

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.” – Thomas Edison

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.” – Voltaire

“A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ.” – John Steinbeck

“If you know the art of deep breathing, you have the strength, wisdom and courage of ten tigers.” – Chinese adage

“Remain calm, because peace equals power.”- Joyce Meyer

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” – Winston Churchill

“A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish proverb

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Inspirational words to keep you going

Feeling down and nothing is going right in your world? Have no fear! Read through these inspirational quotes curated by the Spiritti review team and feel better quickly!

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn

“Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.” – William Arthur Ward

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” – David Allen

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” – John Maxwell

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.” – Maya Angelou

“If you’re going through hell, keep going” – Winston Churchill

“The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” – Pearl Buck

“With self-discipline most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.” – John Buchan

“We must train from the inside out. Using our strengths to attack and nullify any weaknesses. It’s not about denying a weakness may exist but about denying its right to persist.” – Vince McConnell

“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” – Robert H. Schuller

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”– Thomas J. Watson

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.” – Oprah Winfrey

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it – but all that had gone before.” – Jacob Riis

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Words on how travel can change you for good

If you are looking for some inspirational words on the benefits of travel, then you have come to the right place. Here is a great list curated by the Spiritti review team.

Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – Seneca

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – Elizabeth Drew

To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. – Unknown

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. – Bill Bryson

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – Charles Dudley Warner

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

The journey, not the arrival matters. – T. S. Eliot

Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – Ray Bradbury

To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Anderson

So much of who we are is where we have been. – William Langewiesche

Somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – Unknown

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Life changing quotes from literature

Sometimes all you need to do is read a line and it changes your mind forever. Here are some of the best life-changing quotes from modern day literature, curated by the Spiritti review team.

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)”

—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”

—Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”

—Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“‘And tho’ / We are not now that strength which in old days / Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; / One equal temper of heroic hearts, / Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will / To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'”

—Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”

—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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Motivational quotes to get you out of a slump now

Feeling a bit down? No problem. Take a read through these motivational quotes curated by the Spiritti review team.

“Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.” – Theodore N. Vail

“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” – David Brinkley

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” – Orison Swett Marden

“All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.” – Thomas Fuller

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands — your own.” – Mark Victor Hansen

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal — a commitment to excellence — that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Mario Andretti

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles Schulz

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Enthusiasm moves the world.” – Arthur Balfour

“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.” – Paul J. Meyer

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Jung

“Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.” – William J. Bennett, The Book of Virtues

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The Best Funny Quotes & Sayings About Life To Help You Stay Positive

Listed below are a few of our picks of the best funny quotes and sayings that will make you laugh out loud and remind you to never give up, curated by the Spiritti review team.

1. “I know I’m a handful but that’s why you got two hands.”

2. “I am currently under construction. Thank you for your patience.”

3. “You can’t make everyone happy. You’re not an avocado.”

4. “I never knew a single noise could actually drive a person insane, but then I had kids and realized all things really are possible.”

5. “Taking naps sounds so childish. I prefer to call them horizontal life pauses.”

6. “I am presently experiencing life at a rate of several WTFs per hour.”

7. “I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.”

8. “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” — Benjamin Franklin

9. “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.” — Bill Watterson

10. “If at first you don’t succeed, fix your ponytail, and try again.”

11. “Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my keys in the fridge.”

12. “I made a huge to-do list for today. I just can’t figure out who’s going to do it.”

13. “If I cut you off, chances are, you handed me the scissors.”

14. “My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.” — Caroline Rhea

15. “If size really mattered, the elephant would be the king of the jungle.”

16. “‘You attract what you fear.’ Oh my God, I’m scared of $10.6 Billion.”

17. “When life puts you in tough situations, don’t say why me? Just say try me!”

18. “If you stumble, make it part of the dance.”

19. “Every time you are able to find humor in a difficult situation, you win.”

20. “One day you’re the best thing since sliced bread. The next, you’re the toast.”

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Cute and Funny Animal Quotes

These animal quotes will have you laughing out loud and cuddling your furry friend in no time, all curated by the Spiritti review team.

1. “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

2. “Happiness is a warm puppy.”

3. “Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

4. “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

5. “Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.”

6. “Meow” means “woof” in cat.”

7. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

8. “Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.”

9. “Man is the cruelest animal.”

10. “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

11. “I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

12. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”

13. “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”

14. “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

15. “People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”

16. “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

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Inspiring quotes from famous folks to get you on the right track

If you are looking for some positive inspirational quotes then look no further than these lines curated by the Spiritti review team.

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up.” – Michael Jordan

“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.” – Michael Korda

“There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.” – Michael Phelps

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the further you get.” – Michael Phelps

“To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just accept the ones you like.” – Mike Gafka

“It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” – Muhammad Ali

“The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.” – Napoleon Hill

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful, and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.” – Orrin Woodward

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso

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Uplifting quotes from powerful individuals

Here is our collection of inspirational and thought-provoking quotes to uplift curated by the Spiritti review team.

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. – Brian Tracy, author and motivational speaker

Proper planning and preparation prevents poor performance. – Stephen Keague, author

Plan your next move because every step contributes towards your goal. – Sukant Ratnakar, author and motivational speaker

Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident. – Chuck Knox, former NFL head coach

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. – Denis Waitley, writer and motivational speaker

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. -Fitzhugh Dodson, author

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