80 Quotes That Hit Hard About Life and Love

“Never hit you can help it, but when you have to, hit hard. Never hit soft. You’ll never get any thanks for hitting soft.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I believe that life’s challenges are here to knock us out of our brain grooves – get us to switch over to another brain groove track – where we can finally experience new ways of seeing and being in the world. Without hitting bumps in the road, it’s very tough to get, out of our repeated cycles of thinking ...

... and behaving.” – Karen Salmansohn

“Whenever I say I hate something people feel the need to respond with “hate is a strong word.” Yeah? Well so is love and people just throw that word around like it’s nothing.”

“My mom said “love doesn’t hurt you, a person that doesn’t know how to love does” and that hit me.”

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.” – Haruki Murakami

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find ...

... it.” – Steve Jobs

“I am too insane to explain and you are too normal to understand.”

“It ain’t how hard you can hit. It’s how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” ― Rocky Balboa

“It can only break you if you let it.”

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“A person that truly loves you will never let you go, no matter how hard the situation is.”

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The path to a dream is rarely linear. You gotta zig-zag your way to happiness.” ― Karen Salmansohn

“It’s very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them.” ― Karen Salmansohn

“Don’t focus on who let you down. Appreciate who lifted you up. Don’t focus who darkened your days. Appreciate who brightened them.” – Karen Salmansohn

“Silence your inner saboteur.”

“Everything will workout in the end, you don’t need to know how, you just have to trust that it will, never let a bad situation bring out the worst in you, be strong and choose to be positive.”

“Being happy isn’t about what you have. It’s about the thoughts you have.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Hit Hard, Hit Fast, Hit Often!” – Halsey

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” – Oscar Wilde

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.” Gustave Flaubert

“Maybe one day I will be important to everyone like they are to me, that would be nice… because I’m getting so lonely and I feel invisible. I’m trying so hard to stay positive. Please care.”

“You, me or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life.” ― Rocky Balboa

“In the end we won’t remember the most beautiful face and body. We’ll remember the most beautiful heart and soul.”

“The universe rewards the decisive.” – Karen Salmansohn

“People change for two main reasons. Their minds have open or their hearts are broken.”

“Karma is gonna hit some of y’all real hard for breaking people who had nothing but good intentions for you.”

“Many times life will hit you hard, knock you down, and hurt you. Persevere, Never give up, and do your best to get up and Keep Going.” – John Cena

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can ...

... get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.” – Rocky Balboa

“He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.” – Albert Einstein

“Often a good heart doesn’t see a bad heart coming. Forgive yourself for the harm someone’s done you.” ― Karen Salmansohn

“Life hits hard… but my mom taught me how to hit harder.”

“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.” ― Haruki Murakami

“Just because you miss someone doesn’t mean you should be with them.”

“Do not waste time thinking about what you could have done differently. Keep your eyes on the road ahead… and do it differently now.” – Karen Salmansohn

“Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.” – Muhammad Ali

“So we ignore each other, and pretend the other doesn’t exist but deep down, we both know it wasn’t supposed to end like this.”

“Speak your mind even if your voice shakes.”

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.” – C.S. Lewis

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” ― Mark Twain

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” – Abraham Maslow

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

“The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“If you don’t stand for something you’ll fall for anything.”

“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out. You’re curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so ...

... many adventures that you miss because you’re waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.” – Randall Munroe

“Do you ever feel like a single person you care about cares about someone else more.”

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – William Faulkner

“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Love had hit me hard that I fainted.” – Fahi

“I hate myself for being oversensitive. I wasn’t this way before. Now, even just little things can trigger my anxiety and other emotions, then boom! I’m out of mind again.”

“Please don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky, when the stars are strung across the velvety night, and when shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day, make a ...

... wish. Think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.” – Robin Williams

“Bad things happen to us to teach us how to look at good things in a whole new light.”

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― Haruki Murakami

“Hate takes pieces of your heart. Love creates peace in your heart.”

“Being negative is like spraying yourself with anti-charisma.” – Karen Salmansohn

“Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place.”

“You know who you love but you can’t know who loves you.” – Nigerian Proverb

“Fall in love with someone who doesn’t make you feel love is hard.”

“You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.” – Victor Hugo

“You don’t need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.”

“When you are feeling peaceful you are in your ultimate power.” – Karen Salmansohn

“We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.”

“Be where your feet are.” – Tom Coughlin

“I won’t lie, it doesn’t get easier. Not if you’re doing it right.”

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsh

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” – Lao Tzu

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“What is coming is better than what’s gone. Let this belief aim you in the direction you need to go.” ― Karen Salmansohn

“Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“Always stay teachable (open-minded & open-hearted) no matter how much you think you know.” ― Karen Salmansohn

“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“How do you spell ‘love?’ You don’t spell it, you feel it.” – Winnie The Pooh

“If karma doesn’t hit you, I will.”

“I can’t find a man I want, and I’m beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I’m holding out for something that doesn’t even exist.” She’d voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she’d done in the past few months, she’d not once ...

... been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn’t had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn’t sure she’d ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book.” – Karen Marie Moning

“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

“We’re all healing from something. Please be gentle with others. You never know if you’re hitting a wound.”

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“It’s hard to trust when all you have from the past is evidence why you shouldn’t.”

“He that can have patience can have what he will.” ― Benjamin Franklin

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment; and I told them they didn’t understand life.” – John Lennon

“You can’t put arms around a memory.” – Guns N Roses

“Some things take time. Stay positive. Be patient. Don’t settle. Things will get better. Wait for what you deserve.” – Karen Salmansohn