50 Beautiful Quotes That Will Make You A Better Person

“If you want to believe human beings weren’t built for monogamy, that’s fine, but it’s a small way to look at it. We also weren’t built to eat at tables or work routinely or refine our minds or wear clothes. We do these things to have a higher quality of life. Freedom is not the ability to act on you…”

— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com

“Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.”

— Romina Russell, amazon.com

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out o…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“Each person you meet is an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal, amazon.com

“We are not here to match and homogenize and agree on every point. One size of spirituality does not fit all. We are here to be our divine selves, boldly, passionately, respectfully, to the absolute best of our ability — and this, this is more than enough.”

— Sera Break, goodreads.com

“This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, ‘Be more silent.’ Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest…”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see wh…”

— Karen Maezen Miller, amazon.com

“You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.”

— George Alexiou, amazon.com

“Sometimes I think there are only two instructions we need to follow to develop and deepen our spiritual life: slow down and let go.”

— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, amazon.com

“The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, an…”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti, amazon.com

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have r…”

— Rumi, amazon.com

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

“You’ll realize you weren’t who you were supposed to be when you were with him, you were who he wanted you to be. You can no longer rely on him to distract you from the person you know you need and want to become. You have time and energy to focus on selfish pursuits that will improve your quality of…”

— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”

— Alice Walker, amazon.com

“Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs — not new ideas and inventions; impo…”

— Rollo May, amazon.com

“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

— Shannon L. Alder, amazon.com

“Life is filled with unanswered questions, but it is the courage to seek those answers that continues to give meaning to life. You can spend your life wallowing in despair, wondering why you were the one who was led towards the road strewn with pain, or you can be grateful that you are strong enough…”

— J.D. Stroube, amazon.com

“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.”

— Amit Ray, amazon.com

“If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.”

— Thomas Merton, amazon.com

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.com

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com

“Be mindful of what you're mindful of. You actually have some control over what your brain decides to delete while you sleep. It's the synaptic connections you don’t use that get marked for recycling. The ones you do use are the ones that get watered and oxygenated. If you spend too much time reading…”

— Jonah Pollock, fastcompany.com

“The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.”

— Steve Hall, amazon.com

“To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”

— Criss Jami, amazon.com

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though…”

— Albert Einstein, amazon.com

“If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”

— Fulton Sheen, amazon.com

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com