At the beginning of each year, I like to share a selection of quotations on VisionAware – we are getting quite a healthy collection! I’ve been gathering quotes since my teens by writers, philosophers, artists, world leaders, inspirational speakers –anyone who captures words so beautifully, they inspire me to keep it for a rainy day.
When life gets challenging, here are 21 quotes to help focus your thoughts on a more positive outlook in 2021.
New Beginnings
21. “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~Socrates
20. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” ~Alan Cohen
19. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” ~St. Francis of Assisi
18. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ~Jeffrey McDaniel
17. “When you find yourself cocooned in isolation and you cannot find your way out of darkness…Remember, this is similar to the place where caterpillars go to grow their wings.” ~Necole Stephens
Adapting
16. “Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.” ~Paulo Coelho
15. “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.” ~John Maxwell
14. “Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.” ~Eckhart Tolle
13. “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.” ~Coco Chanel
12. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anaïs Nin
Unexpected Change
11. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” ~Emily Dickinson
10. “At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” ~Alan Alda
9. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” ~Maya Angelou
8. “Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…but merely to be LIVED. Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly, magically LIVED.” ~Mandy Hale,
7. “The rainbows of life follow the storm.” ~Anon
Love Where You Are
6. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” ~Brene Brown
5. “Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.” ~Robert Fulgham
4. “Joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “You’re a work of art. A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” ~Anon
2. “If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path.” ~Buddha
1. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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