Encouraging Words

I've always said that words hold the power to change our moods and lift our spirits. I love how someone who you might have never met, someone who could possibly even be long gone can explain to perfection how you feel. So here are some quotes that I've added to my collection to help let me (and possibly you too) that it will bet better.

"Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. "
~John Quincy Adams



"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
~Edmund Burke


"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
~Cherie Carter-Scott


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, But men capable of wisdom,who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
~Ellen Hubbard


"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
~Helen Keller


"Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?"
~Lao-Tzu


"We are continually faced with great opportunities which are brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems."
~Margaret Mead


"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again"
~Alex Tan


"After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies"
~Samuel Rutherford


"If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes"
~Corrie TenBoom