20 Quotes To Read When You’re Feeling Restless In Your Soul

Natalie Allen
Natalie Allen

1. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in the winter – how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

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2. “Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous to do so.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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3. “Life is such a miracle, a series of small miracles. It really is, if you learn how to look at it with the right perspective.” – James Patterson

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4. “Have enough courage to trust love one more time. And always one more time.” – Maya Angelou

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5. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin Talks

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6. “Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.” – Miguel Ruiz

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7. “Instead, pursue the things you love doing and do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.” – Maya Angelou

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8. “Wherever you are, be all there.” – Jim Elliot

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9. “Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you’re alive.” – John Mayer

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10. “I wonder how much of what weighs me down is not mine to carry.” – Aditi

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11. “There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.” – Gilda Radner

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12. “It’s so difficult while we’re blind and hurting and don’t know which way is up. But, if you have faith in anything, have faith in the fact that the universe has a beautiful way of straightening things out far better than we ever could.” Brianna Wiest

13. “It is not down on a map, true places never are.” — Herman Melville

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14. “He said ‘Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl

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15. “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong, I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” — Cheryl Srayed

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16. “When life is sweet, say ‘thank you’ and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say ‘thank you’ and grow.” — Shauna Niequist

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17. “People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. IF you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. IF you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten, do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, though it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.” — Mother Teresea

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18. “We are what we repeatedly do.” — Aristotle

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19. “Here is the riddle of love: everything it gives to you, it takes away.” – Alice Hoffman

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20. “You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies, not excuses.” — Sarah Kay Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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