Quotes can quotes offer us a refreshing perspective. They remind us that life should be lived mindfully – to notice the little moments and savour life more deeply. Looking at life quotes gives us pause to evaluate where we are in life and provides guidance on how to move forward. These quotes are a variety of happy, inspirational, funny and motivational ones, that we can use navigate life more responsibly with greater awareness and appreciation. From positive quotes to saying about fear, here are 160 Life Changing Quotes to inspire mindful living.

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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn

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“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” Buddha

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“Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but learning to dance in the rain.” – Unknown

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“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

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“People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltane

6. “I think I can… I think I can.. I think I can.” – The Little Engine That Could

7. “The greatest success is living your life in a way that honors your own spirit.” – Unknown

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“The only person you should try to be better than is who you were yesterday.” – Unknown

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“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” –Buddha

10. “Life has no remote, so get up and change it yourself.” – Unknown

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“Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” Michelle Obama

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“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

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“See the light in others and treat them as if that’s all you see.”- Dr. Wayne Dyer

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“Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.” – John F Kennedy

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“It doesn’t matter how many times you fail; all that matters is how many times you get back up again!”

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“You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes; You can steer yourself any direction you choose!”– Dr Seuss

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“The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi

18. “Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

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“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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“You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you least expect it.” – Alice Hoffman

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“Your home is a living space, not a storage space” – Francine Jay

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“If we dream it, we can do it.” – Walt Disney

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“You can do anything you put your mind to”

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

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“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”– Confucius

26. “Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

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“The best thing about the past is that it shows us what not to do in the future.” – Unknown

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“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the best.” – John D. Rockefeller

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“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean

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“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

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“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair

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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” – Zig Ziglar

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“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can’t miss.” – Lee Iacocca

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“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

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“If your mind can conceive it, you can achieve it; if you dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward

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“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway

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“You can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan

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“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” – Kenneth Goldsmith

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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs

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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi

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A meadow without flowers is like a face without a smile. – Irish Proverb

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“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery

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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

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“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” – Abraham Lincoln

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“The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.” – Alan Saporta

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“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

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“The best way to avoid having a problem is to be proactive and take care of it before it becomes one.” – Zig Ziglar

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“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“The best way to get over a bad day is to get up and start again tomorrow.” – Unknown

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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

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“If you work on something a long time, and it’s worth it, eventually it will happen.” – Dr. Seuss

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“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs

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“So be a mirror reflecting yourself back, and remembering the times when you thought all of this was too hard and that you’d never make it through. Remember the times you could have pressed quit – but you hit continue.” -Shane Koyczan

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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Dalai Lama

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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr Seuss

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“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” – Marilyn Monroe

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“The most important journeys we take in life are not necessarily the ones to far-away destinations. It’s the journey within that matters.”

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“Life is a precious gift, every moment of every day should be savored.”

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“Don’t be fooled by your fears, you can do anything if you believe in yourself.”

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“You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.”

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“Happiness is an inside job – it starts with you!”

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“Success isn’t about being the best, it’s about doing your best.”

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“You don’t have to be perfect to be happy – just embrace who you are!”

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“The best way to predict the future is to create it. Start today!”

66. “Be brave enough to live life on your own terms and watch miracles unfold around you.”

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“You don’t have to be perfect to be happy – just embrace who you are!”

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“It’s never too late to change paths and create the life that makes you truly happy.”

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“You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.” – Kobi Yamada

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“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” – Mary Pickford

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt

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“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

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“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin

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“Simplicity is not about having less, but about being more with less.”

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“Minimalism isn’t about removing the things you love. It’s about loving the things you have.”

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“Breathe. Simplify. Step lightly into the world and your true essence will shine.”

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“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience and the simple joys of life.”

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The first step is you have to say that you can’-Will Smith

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“Simplify your surroundings and your mind will follow.”

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‘So shoot for the moon Even if you miss It’ll land among the stars’-Les Brown

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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

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•“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll

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“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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“For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.-Tony Robbins”

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“A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude.”

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”– Marcus Aurelius

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“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”– Mark Twain

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“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”

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“If You Are Working On Something That You Really Care About, You Don’t Have To Be Pushed… The Vision Pulls You”-Steve Jobs

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“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato

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“He who is contented is rich.” – Lao Tzu

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“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities…they vary in their desires to reach their potential!”-Tony Robbins

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“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” – Buddha

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“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” – Socrates

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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire

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“Happiness does not consist in possessing much, but in having little and wanting less.” – Epicurus

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“Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale

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“If you would be happy for a lifetime, grow flowers.” – Chinese Proverb

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”– Albert Schweitzer

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“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.” – Joseph Addison

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“The richest moments often come dressed in the robes of simplicity.”

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“The pleasure of eating something so delicious that you want to savour every bite and not share it with anyone else is one of life’s purest joys.” – Ruth Reichl

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“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend.” – Albert Camus

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Christian Proverb: “The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.”

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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

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“In the gentle rush of everyday life, the small act of pausing to appreciate creates vast oceans of peace.”

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“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” -John Quincy Adams

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“A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.” -Anonymous

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“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Chinese Proverb:

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“When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us.” Indigenous Proverb

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“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”Christian Proverb

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“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb

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“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”

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“We will be known forever by the tracks we leave behind.” – Indigenous Proverb

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“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.” Christian Proverb

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“The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don’t.” – Marie Kondo

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“If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents.” African Proverbs

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“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.” Chinese Proverb

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“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; We borrow it from our children”. Indigenous Proverb

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“Leadership is not a rank it’s an approach!” -Anonymous

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“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!” -Jonathan Winters

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“The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.” -Ken Blanchard

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“A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.” -Arnold H Glasow

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“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.” -Woodrow Wilson

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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis

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“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” -Ralph Nader

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“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” -Bill Gates

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“The things you own end up owning you.” – Chuck Palahniuk

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“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

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“A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books.” –Chinese Proverb

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“If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude. “-Chinese Proverb

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“Let your happiness come from within yourself and not from anyone or anything else.”

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

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“Let him who would move the world first move himself.” -Socrates

137. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

138. “Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.”

139. “The more you smile, the more you will be able to smile.”

140.“Happiness is not a destination, but a way of life.”

150. “One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”

151. “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything—they make the best of everything they have.”

152. “It isn’t what happens to us that makes us happy or unhappy—it’s what we think about it.”

153. “Happiness starts with you—not with your relationships, circumstances, or achievements.”

154. “There’s no shortage of good ideas in the world-just a shortage of people who put those ideas into action.”

155. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Be thankful for what you already have and you will be given even more abundance.”

156. “The more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased. That’s because—for sure—what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in life, you create more of it.” – Oprah Winfrey

157. “Focus on what you have, not what you don’t have- that’s the essence of abundance thinking”

158. “Abundance isn’t about having a lot—it’s about appreciating what you have.”

159. “An attitude of abundance is the key to unlocking the door to infinite possibilities.”

160 “Stay within your power: Life is meant to be abundant and prosperous.”

160 Life Changing Quotes to Inspire Mindful Living

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