You have to face life with a positive vision, you have to learn from difficult situations to grow and become better people. What really makes you happy are those little things and the pleasant moments you have with friends and family. Therefore, let’s look at several phrases to apply to life that invite you to face everyday life with a new look.
1. Always remember that you are bigger than your circumstances, you are more than anything that can happen to you. (Anthony Robbins)
Don’t let problems overcome you, you are more than them.
2. Life is not waiting for the storm to pass, it is learning to dance in the rain. (Vivian Greene)
Difficult situations will never end, you just have to learn to face them.
3. Don’t give up, the beginning is always the hardest part.
Starting something is the most difficult, so don’t get discouraged and keep going.
4. Happiness is the sum and compendium of what one has been doing with one’s life. (Enrique Rojas)
Happiness is found in the little things that life gives us.
5. In life sometimes you win, other times you learn. (John Maxwell)
There are no defeats, only learning.
6. An intelligent man would never get irritated if he always had a mirror in front of him and saw himself when he argued (Anonymous)
Anger and anger must be completely eliminated.
7. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. (Steve Jobs)
It is essential to love what you do, that is the key to success.
8. The harder I work, the luckier I get. (Gary Player)
It is not a matter of luck, it is a matter of work and daily effort.
9. If we like what we do, if we always do our best, then we are really enjoying life. We have fun, we don’t get bored, we don’t have frustrations. (Miguel Angel Ruiz)
In every aspect of life, you have to love what you do.
10. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Give thanks to life for what it has given you.
11. Yesterday I was ready, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. (Rumi)
Don’t try to change the world without first, don’t change yourself first.
12. To stop doing what you don’t want, you need to know what you want.
You have to know what you want to be able to do it with love and passion.
13. Life is a constant change of course, when you feel stuck, change course, do like water, always find a way to continue. (Anonymous)
Don’t stagnate along the way, you have to flow like water.
14. Life is not about finding yourself, but about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw)
Every day is an opportunity to change and improve.
15. When you discover your essential nature and know who you truly are, in that knowledge lies the ability to realize any dream you may have, for you are the eternal possibility. (Deepak Chopra)
Search your essence and you will find happiness.
16. Every failure is an opportunity. There is no failure but a change of path. If I don’t accept the path, I fail. (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
Learn from the lessons that failures give us.
17. Be the change you want to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi)
If you want the world to be better, start with you.
18. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Don’t let other people’s opinions define you.
19. If nothing saves us from death, at least love saves us from life. (Pablo Neruda)
Death is a path that we are all going to take, but life is a path that will only depend on you.
20. Serenity is not being safe from the storm; is to find peace in the midst of it. (Thomas Kempis)
Problems will always be present, it is just your decision to make them bigger or smaller than they really are.
21. We must think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all of humanity. We cannot live without each other, without the tree. (Pau Casals)
We are not alone, we are part of a team, don’t forget that.
22. Don’t look for people with your same tastes, look for people with your same values.
Surround yourself with people who have values, that’s what matters.
23. Those who dream during the day are aware of many things that escape those who dream only at night. (Edgar Allan Poe)
You always have to dream, never stop doing it.
24. It is hard to fall, but it is worse to have never tried to climb. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Don’t be afraid of failure, disappointment is better than not trying.
25. I am who I am, I enjoy life my way, and that is much more than most can say about themselves. (Pablo Tusset)
Enjoy life your way.
26. You can do everything you’ve seen done: it’s the magic of learning.
Life is a constant learning.
27. Life is a play that does not matter how long it has lasted, but how well it has been performed. (Seneca)
Life comes with joy and sadness, but it is worth living intensely.
28. Do not do to others what you would not like them to do to you. (Confucius)
Treat others how you want to be treated.
29. Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional. (Buddha)
You are the one who decides if you live in pain or turn the page.
30. A good traveler has neither fixed plans nor the intention of arriving. (Lao Tzu)
Don’t plan so much, just go and enjoy.
31. The starting point towards all achievement is desire. (Napoleon Hill)
Don’t lose the power to desire.
32. You can’t do anything to change what has already happened, but you can do a lot to change what is coming.
Don’t focus on the past, learn from it so that the future is better.
33. If you walk alone, you will go faster. If you walk accompanied, you will go further.
Having a company is a gift that few have.
34. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
Don’t stop, your dream can become reality, just try hard.
35. Starting your day with a smile will make your destiny colorful. (Bob Marley)
Always smile as a smile is a gift you give.
36. In the end, what matters is not the years of life, but the life of the years. (Abraham Lincoln)
Enjoy every moment, well, life is ephemeral.
37. Sometimes we can go years without living at all, and suddenly our entire life is concentrated in a single moment. (Oscar Wilde)
Every moment counts, so stay alert.
38. We have been put here to learn lessons that will make us more complete souls. (Eric Pearl)
Every day is a new opportunity to learn.
39. Miracles are born from difficulties. (Jean de la Bruyère)
Don’t be afraid of difficulties, the magic that comes from it is great.
40. Be different, shine brighter and fly higher than ever.
You are unique and different, remember that.
41. Small things fill jars.
Don’t despise the little things as they make a difference.
42. They say that luck arises proportionally to your sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you will be. (Ray Kroc)
Luck goes hand in hand with effort.
43. There is no better teacher than one’s most bitter experience. (Kovo)
Your experience is a lesson that you can transmit.
44. There is someone so intelligent that they learn from the experience of others. (Voltaire)
It is an excellent idea to learn from the experiences of others.
45. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look at the closed door for so long that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. (Helen Keller)
On many occasions we do not realize that life gives us many opportunities to be happy.
46. The word ‘happiness’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. (Carl Gustav Jung)
Happiness and sadness go hand in hand, one does not exist without the other.
47. A smile costs less than electricity and gives more light. (Scottish proverb)
A sincere smile shines brighter than any light bulb.
48. When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds of it turning out are not on your side. (Elon Musk)
Put first what is really important.
49. Uninterrupted happiness is boring; must have alternatives. (Moliere)
Life is not just happiness.
50. The saddest aspect of life at that time is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov)
Knowledge must have a little wisdom.
51. Everyone tries to achieve something big, without realizing that life is made up of small things. (Frank A. Clark)
The secret of life is in the small things.
52. There are three things that never come back: the word spoken, the arrow shot and the opportunity lost. (Chinese proverb)
Don’t miss an opportunity, you may regret it later.
53. The pessimist sees difficulties at every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunities in every difficulty. (Winston Churchill)
Bet on seeing the positive things in life.
54. The most wasted day of all days is the one in which we have not laughed. (Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
If you don’t laugh, you don’t live, it’s that simple.
55. Only those who dare to suffer great failures are capable of achieving great successes. (Will Smith)
Failure makes you strong for success.
56. What separates you from reaching your goal is a thin glass wall called passivity.
Get moving to reach the goal.
57. The worst fight is the one that is not done. (Karl Marx)
Don’t stand still, walk towards success.
58. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. (Marcus Aurelius)
Keep your thoughts in tune with your life.
59. To live without philosophizing is, properly speaking, to have your eyes closed, without ever trying to open them. (Rene Descartes)
60. I can’t teach anyone anything. I can only make you think. (Socrates)
A good lesson is to teach how to think.
61. You will never reach success by taking the elevator, but by using the stairs. (Joe Girard)
Success is not achieved by the easiest path, but by the one full of obstacles.
62. What you do for yourself fades away when you die. What you do for others makes up your legacy. (Kalu Ndukwe Kalu)
Seek to leave something that benefits others.
63. Happiness is not a feeling, it is a decision.
Each person is responsible for their own happiness.
64. The best book you will ever read is a diary of yours written every day.
You are the only one who can write the book of your life.
65. We are made of a thousand others, the illusion is the “I” that pretends to be only one. (Jean-Bertrand Pontalis)
We have a lot of thoughts, just stick with the right one.
66. Living in love implies being reborn in love. (Vanessa Aguilar)
Include love in your life.
67. Life is what happens to you while you insist on making other plans. (John Lennon)
Life is the day to day that invites you to get ahead.
68. Life is very dangerous. Not for the people who do evil, but for those who sit back and watch what happens. (Albert Einstein)
Don’t be one of those people who sit back while others get ahead.
69. When you wake up in the morning, think about the precious privilege of being alive, breathing, thinking, enjoying and loving. (Marcus Aurelius)
Be grateful for the opportunity to open your eyes to a new day.
70. Sometimes it is difficult for us to start over but if you want to get ahead you must do it. Leave yesterday in the past and don’t think about the future; Enjoy your present.
The past is yesterday, the future is uncertain, the present is the only thing that matters.
71. It is easy to make things complicated, but difficult to make them simple. (F. Nietzsche)
We specialize in making things really complicated.
72. A life full of mistakes is not only more honorable, but it is wiser than a life spent doing nothing.
Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, it’s just a learning experience.
73. Not being dead is not being alive. (E.E. Cummings)
Living is sometimes complicated for many people.
74. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often the result of lack of wisdom. (Terry Pratchett)
Only through experience can we gain wisdom.
75. It takes a long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso)
Youth is a question of aptitude.
76. He who looks for a perfect friend is left without friends. (Turkish proverb)
Perfection does not exist, much less in people.
77. If you want something you never had, you should do something you never did. (Anonymous)
Work hard and you will get what you want.
78. The most difficult victory is the victory over oneself. (Aristotle)
Maintaining control over yourself is a difficult task to achieve.
79. If you give fish to a hungry man you will nourish him for a day. If you teach him to fish, you will nourish him all his life (Lao-tzu)
Knowledge is the weapon against apathy and negativity.
80. There are two components that are fundamental to enjoying life and feeling good about yourself: continuous learning and service. (Tim Ferris)
Share your knowledge, there is nothing more pleasant than that.
81. Realizing that the prejudices of others paralyzed you helps you know why you shouldn’t stop today.
Don’t be stopped by what others think of you.
82. The same one who triumphs can be a hero as he who succumbs, but never the one who abandons the fight. (Thomas Carlyle)
Don’t give up on anything or anyone.
83. Pain is something temporary, it can last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but in the end it will end and something else will take its place. However, if I give up that pain will be forever. (Lance Armstrong)
Don’t give up even when it’s painful.
84. Common mistake: assuming instead of asking. (Anonymous)
When in doubt, don’t assume, ask.
85. Having a child, planting a tree and writing a book is easy. The difficult thing is raising a child, watering the tree and having someone read the book.
Life has its complications.
86. Peace is the daughter of coexistence, education and dialogue. (Rigoberta Menchu)
Peace is something fundamental in life.
87. Love is the joy of the good, the reflection of the wise and the amazement of the unbelievers. (Plato)
Love is a feeling so powerful that it can change the world.
88. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait even a second to start improving the world. (Anna Frank)
Do your bit to change the world.
89. It’s not about whether they’re going to knock you down, it’s about whether you’re going to get up when they do. (Vince Lombardi)
If you fall, stand up.
90. Life is very compassionate; existence is very merciful. It offers you one possibility after another; opportunity after opportunity. (Osho)
Opportunities present themselves when you least expect it.
91. A wise man will seek more opportunities than are presented to him. (Francis Bacon)
Look for an opportunity in every situation.
92. Happiness is not achieved by not having problems, but by facing them. (Steve Maraboli)
Problems are not avoided, they are faced.
93. We can learn in three ways: firstly by reflection, which is the noblest; secondly, by imitation, which is easier; and thirdly by experience, which is the most bitter. (Confucius)
The experience is a learning experience that is often not pleasant at all.
94. Wise? No, I just learned to think. (Christopher Paolini)
Wisdom is about thinking first before acting.
95. The secret of happiness is not always doing what you want, but always wanting what you do. (Leo Tolstoy)
Put all your effort into what you do, even when it wasn’t your first choice.
96. Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated. (Confucius)
It is we ourselves who make life complicated.
97. Intelligence consists not only of knowledge, but also of the skill of applying knowledge in practice. (Aristotle)
Put into practice the knowledge you have.
98. I never think about the consequences of missing a great shot… when you think about the consequences you are thinking about a negative result. (Michael Jordan)
When doing something, focus on achieving it, not on the consequences.
99. Asking for forgiveness is intelligent, forgiving is noble and forgiving oneself is wise. (Anonymous)
Forgiveness is essential in life.
100. Do not measure your wealth by the money you have, measure it by those things you have and that you would not exchange for money. (Paulo Coelho)
Money is important, but many times it does not bring happiness.
I’m Emily Williams Jones, a psychologist specializing in mental health with a focus on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness. With a Ph.D. in psychology, my career has spanned research, clinical practice and private counseling. I’m dedicated to helping individuals overcome anxiety, depression and trauma by offering a personalized, evidence-based approach that combines the latest research with compassionate care.
