Words are powerful things, they have the power to inspire, heal and touch even the bitterest of hearts. In a world full unlimited words, there are some that seem to stay with you more than others.
Here are 40 quotes that will give your life meaning and touch your soul:
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2. "Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
3. "Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up."
-Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter
4. "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be touched, they are felt with the heart."
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
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6. "We are what we believe we are."
-C.S. Lewis
7. "If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives."
-Lemony Snicket
8. "The shell must break before the bird can fly."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
9. "All human wisdom is contained in two words: Wait and hope."
-Alexandre Dumas
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11. "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
-Oscar Wilde
12. "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
-William Shakespeare
13. "I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering itself, packing up and slipping away in the middle of the night."
-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
14. "I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."
-Harun Yahya
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16. "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of you; until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
-Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
17. "I don't pay attention to the world ending. It has ended for me many times and began again in the morning."
-Nayyirah Waheed
18. "I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
19. "The day will be what you make it, so rise like the sun and burn."
-William C. Hannan
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21. "With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
-Mark Twain
22. "It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
-Albus Dumbledore
23. "Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."
-Coco Chanel
24. "Trust that when the answer is no, there is a better yes down the road."
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26. "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
-Neil Gaiman, Coraline
27. "There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
-C.S. Lewis
28. "It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
29. "To thine own self be true."
-William Shakespeare, Hamlet
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31. "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
-Anne Frank
32. "Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
-Mary Shelley, Franskenstein
33. "Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say."
-Mitch Albom
34. "Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'" -E.B. White, Charlotte's Web
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"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries and a touch that never hurts." -Charles Dickens
37. "To live will be an awfully great adventure."
-J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
38. "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
-J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
39. "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain