(Trying to) Uplift Yourself? These quotes might help.

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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

– Helen Keller

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

— Madeleine L’Engle

Once you choose hope, anything is possible.

— Christopher Reeve

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you will start having positive results.

– Willie Nelson

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing.

– Agatha Christie

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

—  St. Francis of Assisi

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

— Joyce Meyer

If you are in a bad mood go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood go for another walk. ― Hippocrates

There are far, far better things ahead than anything we leave behind.

— C. S. Lewis

If you’re going through Hell, keep going.

– Winston Churchill

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

—  Isaac Asimov

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

— Louise L. Hay

In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

— Albert Camus

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget about everything except what you’re going to do now — and do it.

— William Durant

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.

— Alexander Graham Bell

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says I’m possible!

– Audrey Hepburn