15 wise quotes to help you get through tough times

15 wise quotes to help you get through tough times

To not lose heart and to see the problems as opportunities.

Sometimes the situation seems hopeless only because we don’t know about the back door. Sometimes life seems hopeless only because we are used to looking at one point. We expand our horizons with the experience of famous people.

Strength doesn’t come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to give up, that is strength.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a legendary bodybuilder, actor, and politician

Arnold Schwarzenegger

In the long run, everything will be okay. If it’s not good yet, then it’s not over yet.

Paulo Coelho – Brazilian writer and poet

Fate is more inevitable than chance. Destiny lies in character.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa – Japanese writer, classic of new Japanese literature

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But we often stare at the closed door too long to see what has opened to us.

Helen Keller is an American writer, lecturer and political activist

Helen Keller

You’ll never cross the ocean if you’re afraid of losing sight of the shore.

Christopher Columbus – Spanish navigator who discovered the New World.

The beauty of it all is that you never know where you are, where you are going, or what the end will be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti – Indian spiritual leader.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Most of the important things in the world were created by people who kept trying when there seemed to be no hope.

Dale Carnegie – American author and motivational speaker

I never lose. I either win or I learn.

Nelson Mandela – politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Nelson Mandela

A man is able to save himself only by himself, while the guidance of great teachers and the participation of loved ones can only support him, help him to accept the challenge of fate in order to acquire the strength to fight against life’s adversities.

Teitaro Suzuki is a Japanese philosopher, psychologist and researcher of Buddhism

The soft and weak overcomes the hard and strong.

Lao Tzu – ancient Chinese philosopher

Lao Tzu

Sometimes, in order to moderate the harmful effects of inner loneliness, you have to step over yourself in an attempt to see the larger context of life.

Haruki Murakami – Japanese writer

Haruki Murakami

Like it or not, change happens. The stronger the resistance, the greater the pain. Don’t hold on to permanence, to certain circumstances. Go forward with the movement of life.

Alan Watts is a British philosopher, writer and lecturer

No matter how fast you move towards your goal, the important thing is not to stop.

Confucius – ancient Chinese philosopher

Statue of Confucius in Suzhou, China

You will never solve a problem if you think like those who created it.

Albert Einstein, legendary physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

Life is essentially a very simple thing, and it takes a lot of effort for a person to mess it up.

Anton Chekhov – Russian writer