Today out post is on quotes! It’s completely normal in life to have not so good days whether you have a chronic illness or not. Even Dizzy gets them!

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But we’ve always found quotes to be amazing to help make us feel more hopeful and positive about life! Today me and Dizzy have made this post to share our top ten favourite quotes for these moments.

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  1. Alice: This is impossible. The Mad Hatter: Only if you believe it is. – Lewis Carroll

2. You’re allowed to scream, you’re allowed to cry, but do not give up. – Unknown

3. It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop. – Confucius

4. You may not always end up where you thought you were going, but you will always end up where you are meant to be. – Jessica Taylor

5. Be realistic: Plan for a miracle. – Osho

6. These mountains that you are carrying, you were only suppose to climb. – Zajwa Zebian

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7. “Frodo: I can’t do this Sam.

Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?

Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Two Towers”

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8. Keep looking up…That’s the secret of life. – Snoopy

9. ‘Life is a storm my friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout, ‘Do your worst, for I will do mine!” – Alexandre Dumas

10. Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. – C.S. Lewis

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I hope you all like these quotes as much as me and Dizzy do and if you’re having a bad day that they’ve help make it abit brighter. 🙂 Let us know what your favourite quotes are. We’d love to hear them. 🙂 xxx

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  2. Excellent collection! Here’s one of my favorites form “Zen Flesh and Zen Bones” edited by Paul Reps:

    Great Waves

    In the early days of the Meiji era there lived a well-known wrestler called O-nami, Great Waves.

    O-nami was immensely strong and knew the art of wrestling. In his private bouts he defeated even his teacher, but in public he was so bashful that his own pupils threw him.

    O-nami felt he should go to a Zen master for help. Hakuju, a wandering teacher, was stopping in a little temple nearby, so O-nami went to see him and told him of his trouble.

    “Great Waves is your name,” the teacher advised, “so stay in this temple tonight. Imagine that you are those billows. You are no longer a wrestler who is afraid. You are those huge waves sweeping everything before them, swallowing all in their path. Do this and you will be the greatest wrestler in the land.”

    The teacher retired. O-nami sat in meditation trying to imagine himself as waves. He thought of many different things. Then gradually he turned more and more to the feeling of the waves. As the night advanced the waves became larger and larger. They swept away the flowers in their vases. Even the Buddha in the shrine was inundated. Before dawn the temple was nothing but the ebb and flow of an immense sea.

    In the morning the teacher found O-nami meditating, a faint smile on his face. He patted the wrestler’s shoulder. “Now nothing can disturb you,” he said. “You are those waves. You will sweep everything before you.”

    The same day O-nami entered the wrestling contests and won. After that, no one in Japan was able to defeat him.

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  6. Thank you!!! There’s *always* a time when simple quote like these are needed, to give someone a bit of ‘lifet, on the not-so-good days. Thank you!!!

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  18. The quote that got me through a lot of hardtimes is: “This too will pass.”
    There is something comforting about knowing that the hard time I was going through would eventually be only a memory.

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  21. I enjoy all of these quotes!
    One that holds a special meaning for me is;

    “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”
    ~ Ferris Bueller

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  22. My favorite is: “Let us then be up and doing , with a heart for any fate. Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait. ” Longfellow.

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  24. “The supreme happiness is to know that we are loved for who we are – or rather, in spite of who we are. ” from Les Miserables, Victor Hugo I enjoyed reading your quotes. Thank you for sharing. 🙂

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      1. That’s a tough one! I have lots of favourites, though one I remember fondly is one my mother shared with me (from Charles Dickens) and it reminds me that even if I don’t feel like I’m achieving great things nor doing anything amazing, that I’m a good, gentle person, and that counts for something : “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts”.

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