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27 Inspiring Quotes To Help You Through A Tough Time

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27 Inspiring Quotes To Help You Through A Tough Time

We all go through rough times. Inspiration can be difficult to find; but you can find what you need in others’ words. People put the feelings we cannot articulate, into words; which then when we read them, our soul lights up with inspiration. Here are some of my favorite quotes; I hope you like them as much as I do. :)

  • “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.”- Rumi
  • “And here you are living despite it all.” -Rupi Kaur
  • “I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness the astonishing light of your own being.” -Hafiz
  • “I was never insane except upon occasions my heart was touched.” – Edgar Allan Poe
  • “Only in darkness can you see the stars.”- Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “If you propose to speak always ask yourself: is it true, is it necessary, is it kind.”- Buddha
  • “Cultivate kindness.” Proverbs 3:3
  • “Be curious not judgmental.”- Walt Whitman
  • “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”- Ronald Dahl
  • “I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you.” First Day of My Life//Bright Eyes
  • “We are young supernovas and the heat’s about to break.” High Hawk Season//The Mountain Goats
  • “Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”-Mark Twain
  • “What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”-Rumi
  • “What one heart can do for another heart. Is there any beauty in the world that can match this?”-Hafiz
  • “What is done in love is done well.” Vincent Van Gogh
  • “When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.” – Looking For Alaska//John Green
  • ‘Blackbird singing in the dead of night, take these broken wings and learn to fly.” Blackbird//The Beatles
  • “There’s no life so shattered that it cannot be restored.”- Dieter F. Ughtdore
  • “When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the world better than it treated you.”-Patrick Stump
  • “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”-Marcus Aurelius
  • “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” A Tale of Two Cities//Charles Dickens
  • “You may feel alone when you’re falling asleep. Every time tears roll down your cheek. But I know your heart belongs to someone you’ve yet to meet. Someday you will be loved.” Someday You Will Be Loved// Death Cab for Cutie
  • “Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”- Thich Nhat Hanh
  • “Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.” -Scarlet Begonias//Grateful Dead
  • “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows// J. K. Rowling
  • “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”-Rumi
  • “Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.”-Hafiz
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