50 Extraordinary Quotes for a Better Today and Tomorrow

For millenniums, our world has been gifted with extraordinary human beings and different on-screen characters seeking to make life more meaningful and memorable for all. Like a seed, these thought leaders planted teachings, beliefs, words, and visions in hopes they would harvest a world of universal togetherness. In times of conflict, uncertainty, indifference, and fear, these visionaries lit the beacon of love to help the broken-hearted find peace and resolve. They extended the branch of hope to find commonality in the not-so-common and lived fervently for all humanity.

We’ve curated a list of some of our favorite quotes that, in our humble opinion, support a particular perspective that embraces possibility and hope. 

1. “Love loves to love love.” ~James Joyce
2. “Our words are buttressed by our deeds, and our deeds are inspired by our convictions.” ~Fr. Ted Hesburgh
3. While we may come from different places and speak in different tongues, our hearts beat as one. ~Albus Dumbledore
4. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.” ~Socrates
5. “The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” ~Vincent Van Gogh
6. “The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.” ~Walter Benjamin
7. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~C.S. Lewis
8. “Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.” Henry David Thoreau
9. “May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future.” ~Irish Proverb
10. “All of us every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.” ~Steven Spielberg
11. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” ~Benjamin Franklin
12. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” ~Maya Angelou
13. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~Lao Tzu
14. “It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.” ~St. Augustine
15. “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” ~Jiddu Krishnamurti
16. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~Helen Keller
17. “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.” ~Jim Valvano
18. “It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.” ~George Foreman
19. “Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. “~Boethius
20. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.” ~Colin Powell
21. “May your troubles be less, And your blessings be more. And nothing but happiness come through your door.” ~Irish Blessings
22. “Passion makes the world go ’round. Love just makes it a safer place.” ~Ice-T
23. “We are asleep until we fall in love!” ~Leo Tolstoy
24. “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” ~Confucius
25. “As long as there is life, there is hope.” ~Italian Proverb
26. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ~Arthur Ashe
27. “Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.” ~Rumi
28. ” A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.” ~Ayn Rand
29. “If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.” ~Saint Joan of Arc
30. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi
31. “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
32. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost
33. “Failure is not the end.” ~Yoda
34. “The next message you need is always right where you are.” ~Ram Dass
35. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?” ~Martin Luther King Jr
36. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ~C.S. Lewis
37. “The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the big facts.” ~Paulo Coelho
38. “Be strong but not rude. Be kind but not weak. Be bold but not a bully. Be humble but not timid. Be proud but not arrogant.” ~Osho
39. “When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” ~George Washington Carver
40. “Better than a hundred years of idleness, is one day spent in determination.” ~Buddha
41. “Music, a magic beyond all we do here!” ~Albus Dumbledore
42. “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~Albert Einstein
43. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ~Steve Jobs
44. “If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.” ~Buddha
45. “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” ~Thomas Jefferson
46. “Don’t worry. Be happy.” ~Bobby McFerrin
47. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” ~Mark Twain
48. “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~Dr. Suess
49. “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~Mother Teresa
50. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” ~John Muir

It is easy to forget the true meaning of this life we breathe, and when put into the simplest form, it seems obvious to know what path to choose. With each passing year, a new opportunity presents itself to have another go at it. The human species exemplifies the ever-striving conscience in action, and even though our stories, backgrounds, joys, and struggles look different or, at times, feel different, an undeniable and fundamental truth remains. As long as this planet perseveres and provides life, we will always be in this together.