Trying to Stay Positive: 50 Quotes to Survive Tough Times
I love the feeling of being in control of my life and when I’m not, it really stresses me out.
Why? Because it’s scary and I don’t know the outcome.
We’re currently experiencing “shelter-in-place” during the Coronavirus outbreak. The changes going on are like nothing I’ve ever dealt with in my lifetime and hopefully will never have to endure again.
However, I’ve had to change my thoughts during this stressful time.
Rather than worrying about what will happen such as…will my loved ones or I get sick? How long will this quarantine last? Did I buy enough toilet paper?
Instead, I’ve chosen to surround myself with positive thoughts. I’ve turned off the news and am diving into projects I’ve been longing to do but never had the time. Now, I actually HAVE TIME!
I’ll use this time in quarantine to practice self care such as try some new recipes, paint my nails, go for walks, play with my dog, and take a few long relaxing showers.
I’m also going to work on a few craft projects I’ve been wanting to finish, doodle more in my bullet journal, organize my closet, practice hand lettering, and get back into daily journaling.
In addition, I’m going to load my planner and bullet journal with lots of positive quotes.
I’ve rounded up 50 positive quotes that I found inspiring and will remind me daily that I can get through this.
They are listed below and I hope they provide you some peace as well.
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50 Inspiring Quotes to Survive Tough Times
#1. A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.
#2. When you focus on the good, the good gets better.
#3. If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.
#4. Everything comes to you at the right time…be patient.
#5. Stop worrying and start living. - Dale Carnegie
#6. Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. - Victor Hugo
#7. If you feel like you’re losing everything, remember that trees lose their leaves every year and still they stand tall and wait for better days to come.
#8. Everything will be so good, so soon. Just hang in there and don’t worry about it too much.
#9. If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down. - Buddha
#10. When you can’t find the sunshine, be the sunshine.
#11. Bad vibes don’t go with my outfit.
#12. Today I will not stress over things I can’t control.
#13. Feel what you need to feel and then let it go. Don’t let it consume you. - Dhiman
#14. Expect nothing. Appreciate everything.
#15. Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.
#16. I am resilient and can get through anything.
#17. Being positive isn’t pretending that everything is good - it’s seeing the good in everything.
#18. What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create. - Buddha
#19. Laughter is the best medicine.
#20. Focus on the step in front of you not the whole staircase.
#21. I’m going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life. - Elsie De Wolfe
#22. Start each day with a grateful heart.
#23. Today is going to be a great day.
#24. My thoughts become my reality.
#25. My life is great with all the positive and negative things in it.
#26. Do something today that your future self will thank you for.
#27. Mindset is everything.
#28. Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.
#29. Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. - Alan Watts
#30. You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.
#31. You have survived everything you’ve gone through up to this point. The best day of your life is still yet to come. There are still people you haven’t met, and things you haven’t experienced. You can do this.
#32. Be strong now because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.
#33. One of the toughest things to go through is to be someone’s strength while you’re at your weakest.
#34. Do not lose hope, please believe that there are a thousand beautiful things waiting for you. Sunshine comes to all that feel the rain. - R.M. Drake
#35. Think happy.
#36. Some days are just hard.
#37. A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure. - Henry Kissinger
#38. Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most. - Buddha
#39. Today I choose: calm over chaos, serenity over stress, peace over perfection, grace over grit, faith over fear. - Mary Davis
#40. Find something to be grateful for first thing in the morning and again right before bed.
#41. Set peace of mind as your highest goal, and organize your life around it. - Brian Tracy
#42. Peace is the result of training your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be. - Wayne W. Dyer
#43. You will be fine. There may be decisions to make, and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. - Erin Morgenstern
#44. Courage is knowing what not to fear. - Plato
#45. F. E. A. R. has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run OR Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours.
#46. Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it. - Bear Grylls
#47. Being scared is part of being alive. Accept it. Walk through it.
#48. A day of worrying is more exhausting than a day of work. - John Lubbock
#49. It is possible to choose peace over worry.
#50. Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere. - Erma Bombeck
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