When Life Throws You Curveballs: 30 Positive Quotes

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, and how you can still come out of it. – Maya Angelou.

Give yourself time to heal from a challenge you’ve been dealt. Letting go of hurt doesn’t happen overnight. It happens in slow, small steps forward. Plus a few steps backwards at times. Be gentle and patient with yourself. – Karen Salmansohn

The universe has someone it wants you to meet. Your highest potential self. Every day the universe offers you opportunities to meet up, through the intro of small problems, and big challenges. Consider these events the universe’s way of introducing you to your highest potential self. Step on up and say a big warm howdy. – Karen Salmansohn

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

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

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 will get through this. You will be fine. Trust the universe’s plan. Hold space for possibilities you can’t yet imagine. Move forward as someone who handles things with good character and a loving heart. You’ll create a better life for yourself. Just wait. You’ll see. – Karen Salmansohn

I think it’s time to be happy again. – Karen Salmansohn

Don’t let a hard lesson harden your heart. – Karen Salmansohn

Today is a good day to stop harming yourself with thoughts about the past. Rename negative thinking as “nag-ative” thinking. Stop nagging yourself about how things should have been. Let it go. Your mis-steps from the past don’t lead you to your future. It’s the steps you take now that take you there. – Karen Salmansohn

Don’t hate. Meditate.- Karen Salmansohn

It’s hard to say a new hello when you’ve been hurt by the last goodbye. – Karen Salmansohn

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

Please be gentle with others. You never know what inner pain they might be recovering from. – Karen Salmansohn

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

Your life is a reflection of the choices you make. Even events you don’t control reflect your choice in how you respond. If you want to improve your life, improve how you make choices. Try to mindfully make decisions which are inspired by open-mindedness, high integrity, and long-term thinking. – Karen Salmansohn

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control. – Elizabeth Gilbert

What is coming is better than what is gone. Let this belief aim you in the direction you need to go. – Karen Salmansohn

Think about life as a competition with yourself to become extraordinary. – Karen Salmansohn

I have a suit in my closet with a pocket cut out. It’s a reminder to me that I won’t be taking anything with me. The last I wear won’t need pockets. – Wayne Dyer

FAIL = First. Attempt. In. Learning.

Your fears are not walls. They are hurdles. – Dan Millman

No matter how tough things may feel, there’s always something good waiting around the corner. -Karen Salmansohn

I forgive others not because they deserve it. But because I deserve peace. – Karen Salmansohn

Be so full of love, light and faith that nothing outside of you can hurt you. – Karen Salmansohn

Inside you is a treasure trove of love and strength. Let it rise to the surface. Be your full power. – Karen Salmansohn

“Be a gift to everyone who enters your life. Try not to enter another’s life if you cannot be a gift. You always are the gift – yet sometimes you don’t let yourself know that. When someone enters your life unexpectedly, look for the gift that person brings.” – Neal Donald Walsch

Don’t give up. Be someone who other’s look at and think: “Because of you I’m not going to give up either.” – Karen Salmansohn

We’re not given a good life or a bad life. We’re given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad.

Now everytime I witness a strong person I want to know: “What darkness did you conquer in your story?” Mountains do not rise without earthquakes.- Katherin MacKennett

You will suffer if you allow your mood to be at the mercy of unpredictable events and unreliable people. Your joy will forever be on a chaotic roller coaster ride. Resist seeking joy from the outside in. Seek it from the inside out. Focus on blessings. – Karen Salmansohn