Whether you accidentally hit “reply all” on the email you were sending your coworker about your horrible boss or you struck out in the bottom of the ninth with three men on base, we feel you. Tough times call for inspirational measures. The following ten quotes will give you the strength you need to get through the day the positive way.
1. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” Robert Frost
2. “Great moments are born from great opportunity. And that’s what you have here, tonight, boys. That’s what you’ve earned here tonight. One game. If we played ‘em ten times, they might win nine, but not this game. Not tonight. Tonight, we skate with them. Tonight, we stay with them. And we shut them down because we can! Tonight, WE are the greatest hockey team in the world. You were born to be hockey players. Every one of you. And you were meant to be here tonight. This is your time. Their time is done. It’s over. I’m sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw ‘em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it.” Miracle, 2004
3. “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 that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller
4. “Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is that you did everything that you could. There wasn’t one more thing that you could’ve done. Can you live in that moment, as best you can, with clear eyes and love in your heart? With joy in your heart? If you can do that, gentlemen, then you’re perfect.” Friday Night Lights, 2004
5. “Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” Voltaire
6. “Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens.” Carrie Bradshaw, Sex & the City
7. “Everything will be okay in the end. If it is not okay, it’s not the end.” Unknown
8. “Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live.” Natalie Babbit
9. “The most courage act is to think for yourself, aloud.” Coco Chanel
10. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw