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Every Quote in Our Inspirational Quote Wallpapers
By SL-Designs ·
Many of Stella Levi's wallpapers pair her artwork with a quote. A picture can't be searched, so here is every quote from the quote wallpapers written out, grouped the same way as the Inspirational Quotes section. Each line opens the wallpaper it appears on, ready to download for free.
Life & Motivation
The largest set: quotes about living well, courage and keeping going.
- “When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile” – Author Unknown
- “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly” – Richard Bach
- “To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly” – Henri Bergson
- “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning” – Ivy Baker
- “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending” – Maria Robinson
- “Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it” – Danny Kaye
- “The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going” – Jim Ryun
- “Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world” – Wayne Dyer
- “Feelings are much like waves, we can't stop them from coming but we can choose which one to surf” – Jonatan Mårtensson
- “When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love” – Marcus Aurelius
- “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore” – Andre Gide
- “Simplicity is the key to brilliance” – Bruce Lee
- “Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion” – Dalai Lama
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop” – Mother Teresa
- “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle” – Albert Einstein
- “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too” – Paulo Coelho
- “We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are” – Paulo Coelho
- “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go” – T.S. Eliot · another wallpaper
- “Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions” – Albert Einstein
- “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be” – Lao Tzu
- “It's not who you are that holds you back,it's who you think you're not” – Denis Waitley
- “Dreams are like stars... you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny” – Anonymous
- “In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away” – Shing Xiong
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone” – Neale Donald Walsch
- “The best way to predict the future is to create it” – Peter Drucker
- “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – George Bernard Shaw
- “To understand everything is to forgive everything” – Buddha
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards” – Soren Kierkegaard
- “It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Start Where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can” – Arthur Ashe
- “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention” – Khalil Gibran
- “Things do not change; we change” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Whatever you do or dream you can do - begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe” – Anatole France
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” – Winston Churchill
- “We see things not as they are, but as we are” – H. M. Tomlinson
- “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success” – Napoleon Hill
- “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world” – Harriet Tubman
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does” – William James
- “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear” – James Neil Hollingworth
- “Look at what you've got and make the best of it. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” – Proverb
- “Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none had ever happened” – Libbie Fudim
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do” – Benjamin Spock
- “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it” – William Arthur Ward
- “If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place” – Nora Roberts
- “Grace means more than gifts. In grace something is transcended, once and for all overcome. Grace happens in spite of something; it happens in spite of separateness and alienation. Grace means that life is once again united with life, self is reconciled with self. Grace means accepting the abandoned one. Grace transforms fate into a meaningful vocation. It transforms guilt to trust and courage. The word grace has something triumphant in it” – Yrjo Kallinen
- “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere” – Albert Einstein
- “Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities” – Sue Atchley Ebaugh · another wallpaper
- “The quieter you become, the more you can hear” – Ram Dass
- “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” – John Lennon
Love & Happiness
On love and on happiness, from Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Elbert Hubbard and others.
- “We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love” – Mother Teresa
- “The love we give away is the only love we keep” – Elbert Hubbard
- “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
- “Celebrate love. It is the breath of your existence and the best of all reasons for living” – Author Unknown
- “Love is a choice you make everyday” – Gary Chapman
- “Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi · another wallpaper
- “A hug is the perfect gift; one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it” – Author Unknown
- “Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves” – Helen Keller
- “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude” – Denis Waitley
- “Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different” – Author Unknown
- “Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it” – Eileen Caddy
- “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness” – Charles Spurgeon
- “The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything that comes along their way” – Author Unknown
Peace & Nature
Peace from Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King, Jr., Lao Tzu and the Buddha; nature from Thoreau, Emerson and Pascal.
- “If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart” – Lao Tzu
- “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without” – Buddha
- “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads” – Henry David Thoreau
- “Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere” – Blaise Pascal
Rumi Quotes
Lines by the thirteenth-century poet Rumi.
- “Only from the heart can you touch the sky” – Rumi
- “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love” – Rumi
- “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent” – Rumi
- “As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears” – Rumi
- “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do” – Rumi
Success & Change
On change and success, from Henri Bergson, Dean Acheson, T. Harv Eker and others.
- “Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Never overestimate your power to change others” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly” – Henri Bergson
- “Always remember that the future comes one day at a time” – Dean Acheson
- “Nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it” – T. Harv Eker
- “Where attention goes, energy flows and results show” – T. Harv Eker
- “If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable” – T. Harv Eker
- “Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up” – Thomas A. Edison
- “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult” – Seneca
Other Quotes
A few that fit no single theme, from Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens and Seneca.
- “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers” – Rudyard Kipling
- “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way” – Charles Dickens
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