Have you ever been down on yourself and out of the blue you saw a quote that made you snap out of your funk? And, on top of that, it stuck with you?

I love those kinds of moments!

And we all have the quotes that remain implanted in our brains forever.

AskReddit users talked about the quotes that changed the way they look at things.

Let’s take a look.

1. Always stay young.

“”When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

C. S. Lewis”

2. No one’s really paying attention.

“You’ll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”

David Foster Wallace”

3. Use it or lose it.

“”Use what talents you possess – the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

Henry van Dyke”

4. She’s right.

“”Socializing is just like any skill.

You need to practice before you’re good at it.”

My Mom, comforting me when I was struggling to make friends.”

5. I like this one.

“”We’re all going to d**, all of us; what a circus!

That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t.

We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.”

– Charles Bukowski”

6. Waste of time.

“”Worrying is a waste of your imagination.”

I saw it spray painted on a sidewalk somewhere.”

7. He’s pretty smart.

“Arnold Schwarzenegger said something like “you can either be a negative or positive person in life, but only one will get you somewhere” in an AMA once.

I am a pretty pessimistic person. When I read that though, it made me think about a lot of things like how my life and outlook is. I would say that single quote of his helped me evolve a lot about my life.

He’s right.”

8. It’s up to you.

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms- to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

-Viktor Frankl”

9. That’s life.

“”It’s possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness. That is life.”

—Captain Jean-Luc Picard”

10. Believe people.

““In order to empathize with someone’s experience you must be willing to believe them as they see it and not how you imagine their experience to be.”

-Brené Brown”

11. Very true.

“Be kind.

For everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”

12. Still remember it.

“”No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s problematic in that a**sive people may use words like this to “blame the victim,” but this quote opened the door for me to exit an abusive marriage, so I’ve always remembered it.”

13. Always changing.

“No man ever steps in the same river twice.

For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

14. From a survivor.

““Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.

The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.”

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz”

15. Don’t get too comfortable.

““Comfort is the enemy of progress”.

I don’t know who actually said the quote but my Senior drill instructor said it in the beginning of boot camp and it definitely stuck with me.”

16. Don’t carry it around.

“”If you don’t heal what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.”

17. We are special.

“”We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special.”

— Stephen Hawking”

18. The big question.

“When having a difficult time making a difficult decision:

“What would you do if you weren’t afraid?””

19. You can get over it.

“”It takes a really long time to realize how truly miserable you are… and even longer to realize it doesn’t have to be that way.”

From Bojack Horseman.

It was the tipping point for me beating my depression. Going on three years depression free, it IS possible, keep holding on.”

20. Enjoy it.

“I don’t recall the quote exactly, but it goes similar to this: “Children make so much noise you can’t think, but when they leave the house forever, the silence is maddening.”

I have young kids, and this made me think about how they won’t be this age forever.”

21. Absolutely.

“”Integrity is what you do when no one is watching.”

My old hockey coach.”

22. Can’t hold on to it.

“”Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned”

– Buddha”

23. Interesting.

““Danger is very real, but fear is a choice.”

As someone who has a lot of irrational fears and is often paranoid/anxious, this helps me separate the difference between actual danger and when I’m just allowing myself to feel fear when no real danger is present.”

24. Yes, she was.

“”Bored people are often boring.”

My grandma isn’t always a nice person, but she was right.”

25. Get busy!

“‘Nothing will work unless you do.’ Maya Angelou

It really helps to combat procrastination.”

26. Can’t please everyone.

“My uncle once said to me, “life is too short to do things you don’t want to do.”

That’s when I stopped feeling guilty about not visiting people I really don’t care about or doing things that are expected of me that I really don’t want to do.”

27. I like this one.

“One of my dad’s favorites: “you won’t be able to understand illogical behavior with a logical thought process.”

Over the years it’s stopped me getting quite so frustrated at the behavior of others.”

28. Travel is important.

““Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

Mark Twain

Truly one of my favorites.”

29. Keep moving forward!

“No matter how many times I may stumble I will rise each time a better man.

The most important step a man can take is the next one.

It’s always the next one.”

30. A genius.

“”Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot.”

Are there any quotes that made a big impact on your life?

If so, please share them with us in the comments.

Thanks a lot!

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The best time to plant a tree was 50 years ago. The second best time is now.

My dad always used to say this when I was growing up and I never had a clue what he was talking about until he explained it to me.

Basically, it means that you should get started today and stop putting things off if you want to get them off the ground and rolling.

And I think those are words to live by!

What quote forever changed the way you look at things?

Here’s what folks on AskReddit had to say.

1. Words of wisdom.

“I had a professor in college he called it the 10/90 rule.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Changed my life.”

2. Kindness.

“Honesty without kindness is brutality.

Kindness without honesty is manipulation.”

3. Can’t please everyone.

“You might be the sweetest peach on the tree, but some people just don’t like peaches.”

This helped me get over my lifelong desire to be liked by everyone, and allowed me to focus on becoming someone I actually liked.”

4. Don’t worry about it.

“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life. Most of which never happened.” – Mark Twain.

Found it on a workbook for anxiety disorders.”

5. I’ll entertain it.

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle.

And yes it isn’t the real quote but elementary school aged me internalized that thought and I have applied it to everything ever since then.”

6. Helped out.

“If you look for the light, you will often find it, but if you look for the dark, it is all you will ever see” – Uncle Iroh, Legend of Korra.

Has helped me through some dark times in the past, just looking for that small bit of good in a heap of bad.”

7. Nobody’s perfect.

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

–John Steinbeck, East of Eden.”

8. Let it go.

““Let go or be dragged”.

An old Zen proverb I heard at a meditation class.

Really changed the way I let myself worry about things.”

9. You’re always with you.

“My grandfather once told me, “no matter where you go, there you are”.”

We refer to that a geographical cure — which doesn’t always solve things — so sometimes you have to work on yourself so you don’t repeat your mistakes.”

10. Take care of #1.

“Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.”

This helped a lot with my guilt and burgeoning martyr complex.”

11. From Carl Sagan.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.

It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

Carl Sagan.”

12. We’re all replaceable.

“Graveyards are full of irreplaceable people”.

That quote helped me stop going down the path of working myself to death because “my job needs me”.”

13. Courage.

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” -Maryann Radmacher

I came across this a long time ago, at a point in life that I really needed this lesson. It’s okay if I feel sad and resigned, if my depression beat me for today and I wasn’t able to function. I didn’t fail, I’m not weak, I will try again tomorrow.”

14. Change your language.

“If you’re trying to break a habit, don’t say ‘this is the last time I’m doing it’ to yourself. Instead, say ‘this is the first time I’m not doing it’.”

15. Good one.

“When people show you who they are, believe them.”

– Maya Angelou.”

16. It helps.

“That mountain you’ve been carrying, you were only suppose to climb.’

Really helped me overcome a lot of traumatic experiences and difficult chapters in my life.

I hope it helps someone else out there.”

17. Just do it.

“Dear Abby’s response to a writer thinking of going back to school but worried that she will be 40 by the time she got her degree –

“How old will you be in four years if you don’t get your degree? You are going to be 40 anyway with or without your degree.“

It reminded me that letting age stop me from my plans was just silly. Also, working at a community college and seeing so many people going back to school in their 30s, 40s, 50s and thriving, the quote really spoke to me.”

18. Live it up.

“Some people d** at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”

– Ben Franklin”

19. Be kind.

“The axe forgets; the tree remembers.” —Zimbabwean proverb.

People don’t forget how they were treated; that’s why it’s so important to be kind.”

20. I wish you well.

“Just because you lost me as a friend doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy.

I still want to see you eat, just not at my table.”

21. Get through it.

“Your kid isn’t giving you a hard time, they’re having a hard time.

The only way out is through.”

22. Some good ones.

“Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.”

“It’s no use wasting time worrying what other people think about you. No one is thinking about you.”

and

“Remember to take care of yourself. You can’t pour from an empty cup.”

Been living up to those ideals recently and I feel I have just started living.”

23. You got this.

“I understand there’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid and outwit that guy.”

– Anthony Bourdain.”

24. The writing life.

“The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” – Terry Pratchett

I’m not sure why this quote struck me so hard, but it completely changed the way I approach writing. Just get your ideas down in run-on sentences and asides to yourself and loads of [???] at parts you haven’t figured out yet.

It took me more than 30 years to realize that a first draft isn’t just a rough version of the final draft. It’s a map for yourself, and no one else.”

25. Love.

“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”

– Cheryl Strayed.”

26. Stupid is as stupid does.

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity” – Hanlon’s Razor.

Not everyone’s out to get you, there are a lot of stupid people in the world.”

27. Always do your best.

“I visited Pearl Harbor this week and the one that struck me was: “There were many acts of heroism that day, not all of them recorded.”

It reminds me that even when nobody is watching, it’s still important to put forward your best.”

28. The deal.

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”

C.S. Lewis”

29. Still think about it.

“Honey, I hope it’s the worst thing that ever happens to you.”

From my dad when I was complaining about something. He probably didn’t intend for it to be deep or anything but it puts things in perspective. I think of it all the time.”

30. Get out there and explore.

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

John Shedd”

What quote do you think changed your life?

Talk to us in the comments and let us know.

Thanks a lot!

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