25 Uplifting Quotes for Difficult Times

Whether it’s the best of time or worst of times, it’s the only time you have. Look for the good in each day. Focus on growth, purpose, peace, love and gratitude. – Karen Salmansohn

You cannot change how others treat you. Sometimes they won’t be so loving. But you can change how you react to it all. Be sure you respond in a way which shows love for yourself – and don’t beat yourself up over how they’re beating up on you. Be good to yourself – even when others aren’t. Especially when others aren’t. – Karen Salmansohn

From the outside looking in, it’s hard to understand. From the inside looking out, it’s hard to explain.

What is achievable in your life is based on the stories you tell yourself.

Don’t let the fear of your challenges overwhelm you. Face towards your challenges head on. You’re stronger than you realize. Plus your challenges will help you to strengthen your emotional muscles in new, exciting ways. – Karen Salmansohn

Please do not allow the challenges of your past to stop you from becoming who you are meant to be. – Karen Salmansohn

You can’t be both awesome and negative. Choose one. – Karen Salmansohn

A happy life is a balanced life. Be kind – but not a doormat. Be trusting – but value boundaries and intuition. Be content – but stay open to growing. – Karen Salmansohn

It’s okay to be scared. It means you’re about to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone and grow a little. – Karen Salmansohn

You may be up against a giant today. But don’t focus on how big your giant is. Focus on how big your inner power is.

Don’t get even. Get eben better. Become excited about creating a happy, love-filled life! Become caught up in what’s going right – and who you love! Eventually any thoughts of that challenging person from your past will become so diluted by all the many awesome things in your present that they will become a mere blip in your memory bank. – Karen Salmansohn

Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people. -Karen Salmansohn

The truth is…we’re all a little broken. We must learn to love the broken pieces of ourselves – be gentle and empathic – with ourselves and others. – Karen Salmansohn

If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left. – Shannon L. Adler

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That’s what takes a real hero. – Brian Andreas

if you want to improve your life you must commit to changing your daily habits and creating a permanent lifestyle shift. You can’t depend on quick fixes. – Karen Salmansohn

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell the people who stand by you without flinching…they are your family. – Jim Butcher

The life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.

Is this the life you want to live? Can you be braver, stronger, kinder, more communicative? You have it within you to change what’s within you. – Karen Salmansohn

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. – Mo Willems

Stop allowing the pain form past relationships to keep you stuck in resentment. Stop being a prisoner to your past choices. Grow yourself beyond where you were when you gave your power away. – Karen Salmansohn

Positivity is one of the most attractive scents you can wear. – Karen Salmansohn

Just because I’m used to it, doesn’t mean it no longer hurts.

Try to say nothing negative about yourself for 3 days. For 45 days. For 3 months. See happens in your life. – Yoko Ono