For so many of us, social media has become like second nature. I use it in my everyday life and check it often. It benefits me in many ways in my daily life, my job, my relationships, my personal health, my financial health, and even in my months and months of wedding planning. I often look to Twitter and other social media sites for inspirational quotes from the people that I respect and look to for good mental and physical health. Here are some of my favorite quotes: Maybe they'll inspire you, too.
Love and Relationships
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." (Maya Angelou)
"We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections." (John Lennon)
"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." (Booker T. Washington)
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." (Unknown)
"Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God." (Ronald Reagan)
"It is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings." (Ann Landers)
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money." (Abigail Van Buren)
"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away." (Maya Angelou)
Business and Life Success
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." (Oprah Winfrey)
"Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value." (Albert Einstein)
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do." (Steve Jobs)
"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless." (Jamie Paolinetti)
"You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have." (Maya Angelou)
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears." (Les Brown)
"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." (Farrah Gray)
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom." (Vincent van Gogh)
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." (Stephen Covey)
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." (Robert Louis Stevenson)
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity." (Amelia Earhart)
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." (Norman Vincent Peale)
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear." (Rosa Parks)
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often, we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." (Helen Keller)
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." (Lao Tzu)
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." (Chinese proverb)
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." (Dalai Lama)
Health and Fitness
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." (Napoleon Hill)
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." (W. Clement Stone)
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." (Alice Walker)
"Eighty percent of success is showing up." (Woody Allen)
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." (Henry Ford)
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily." (Zig Ziglar)
"Ask and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you." (Jesus)
"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." (Unknown)
"Believe you can and you're halfway there." (Theodore Roosevelt)
"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear." (George Addair)
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." (Arthur Ashe)
"You become what you believe." (Oprah Winfrey)