When you are struggling emotionally, it sometimes seems impossible that you could feel better and have the life you want and deserve. It can be difficult to hold on to hope, believe in yourself, your strength, your courage.  The following are quotes I’ve come across over the years that have struck me in some way…sometimes personally or sometimes in regards to clients and their fears, concerns, struggles.

hope

“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over….it became a butterfly”
–anonymous

“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
–George Eliot

“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
–Charles A. Beard

“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.”
–Martin Luther

“Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.”
–Mignon Mclaughlin

courage

“We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
–unknown

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
-Neale Donald Walsch

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
–Erma Bombeck

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
–Winston Churchill

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
–Thomas Jefferson

“The only way around is through.”
–Robert Frost

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
–Lao Tzu

believe

“In the seed is an apple you can’t yet see”
–anonymous

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
–Mary Kay Ash

“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
- Tennyson

“Leap and the net will appear.”
-Zen saying

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
–Winston Churchill

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right.”
–Henry Ford

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
–Maya Angelou

“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.”
–George Lucas

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.”
–Beverly

strength

“From the withered tree, a flower blooms.”
–Zen Saying

“Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”
–Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
–Richard L. Evans

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.”
–Henry David Thoreau

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.”
–George Bernard Shaw