They say wisdom comes with age and it's true. As we mature and take on more responsibilities we become a lot wiser. We are better able to handle the obstacles we are faced with in life as we live through more diverse experiences. Some of the most important things to learn come from lessons we haven't even experienced yet.

As we continue to experience life we sometimes need a little reassurance that everything will be okay. These quotes are perfect for your darkest times...

1. "Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."—Les Brown

2. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss

3. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” -Joshua J. Marine

4. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you’ve got to make yourself.” -Alice Walker

5. "If you fell down yesterday, stand up today." -H.G. Wells

6. "Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” -Jim Rohn

7. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” -Vivian Greene

8. "Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are." -Bernice Johnson Reagon

9. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison

10. “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.” -Randy Pausch

11. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” -Michael Jordan

12. "Problems are not stop signs; they are guidelines." -Robert H. Schuller

13. "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -Christopher Robin

14. “Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!” -Yvonne Pierre

15. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky

16. “You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

17. “You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” -Dan Millman

18. “You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.” -Dean Young

19. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.” - Nelson Mandela

20. “Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” -John Wooden

21. "Tough times never last, but tough people do." - Robert H. Schuller

22. "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending." -Carl Bard

23. “We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

24. “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

25. "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

26. "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." -Joseph Kennedy

27. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” - Henry Ford

Keep your head up always because brighter days are to come.