Ever just wanted to read random stuff that just makes you smile? Quotes are the easiest things to do that – make you smile that is. Here are just a few quotes from around the world that are sure to brighten your day. And if you’ve already read them, go read our list of true love quotes, marriage quotes, kingdom quotes, Christian quotes, historical leader quotes or quotes from books, and more.
The butterfly is only beautiful because the caterpillar is brave.
Unknown
May your finances be organised, and your life remain random.
Anon
Never does nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
Roman poet Juvenal
The deepest feeling shows itself in silence, not even in silence; but in restraint.
Marianne Moore
O life! I always want you to be beautiful. Neither rich, nor easy, but pure and limpid like spring water.
Le Lezard
Strong people cannot be defeated.
Danielle Steele, Silent Honor
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The flower does not dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.
Mark Nepo
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
Fall seven times and stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Lao Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Stars can’t shine without darkness.
D.H. Sidebottom
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.
David Whyte
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran
A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
Naomi Judd
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West
The most wasted of days is one without laughter.
E.E. Cummings
Be so happy that, when other people look at you, they become happy too.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton
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