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30 Quotations For Those Who Need Inspiration

Reminders to live in the light

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All my life, I have had a fascination with quotations. They have the ability to change my entire perspective, as well as excite and inspire me. I also love knowing other people's favorite quotations because they give insight into their minds. John Green even said once, "Maybe our favorite quotes say more about us than they do their authors." I firmly believe in this and I believe it is beautiful. I want people to be inspired and excited, as well, so here are 30 of my favorite, most inspiring quotations.

1. "Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't." Bill Nye.

2. "We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us." Charles Bukowski.

3. "You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star." Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. "My young life burnt me alive. The poet came from the ashes, but the words came from the fire." Atticus.

5. "Even after all this time the Sun never says to the Earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky." Hafiz.

6. "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness." Kurt Vonnegut.

7. "She had the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and it took only her laugh to realize that beauty was the least of her." Atticus.

8. "Instead of asking why they left, now I ask, what beauty will I create in the space they no longer occupy?" Rudy Francisco.

9. "There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind." C.S. Lewis.

10. "Wherever you are, be all there." Jim Elliot.

11. "Her soul was too deep to explore by those who always swam in the shallow end." A.J. Lawless.

12. "Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else." Sade Andria Zabala.

13. "Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you." Walt Whitman.

14. "Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within it a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it." Buddha.

15. "Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure." Rumi.

16. "All that we are is a result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become." Buddha.

17. "Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious." Rumi.

18. "Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they are given wings." Rumi.

19. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." Henry Ford.

20. "It is love, not mere knowledge, that ties us to the things of this world and determines their importance in our lives." Archibald MacLeish.

21. "True love will triumph in the end -- which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, then it is the most beautiful lie we have." John Green.

22. "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." John Green.

23. "It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance." Bette Midler.

24. "I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched." Edgar Allan Poe.

25. "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." Jonathan Safran Foer.

26. "Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls." Joseph Campbell.

27. "Raise your words, not your voice. Remember it's rain that grows flowers, not thunder." Rumi.

28. "Love her but leave her wild." Atticus.

29. "Nobody needs to show up for you to come true. Just believe in yourself." Ed Hicks.

30. "And God said 'Love your enemy,' and I obeyed him and loved myself." Kahlil Gibran.

These quotations are a constant reminder to change my perspective when I am trapped in the negative. I hope they can do the same for all of you.

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