Inspirational words to make you smile

Check out these motivational words and famous quotes to explain perfectly the importance of these words, curated by the Vibant review team.

Opportunity

• "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

—Henry Ford

• "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

—Bobby Unser

• "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

—Milton Berle

Outstanding

• "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

—Zig Ziglar

• "Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts."

—Paul Johnson

• "The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results."

—Tony Robbins

Passion

• "Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks."

—Yo Yo Ma

• "Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams."

—Donovan Bailey

• "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."

—Oprah Winfrey

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Deep Health Sayings

We all know our health is important, including the Vibant review team, but these one-liners certainly emphasize that point perfectly.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck

The part can never be well unless the whole is well. Plato

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. Friedrich Nietzsche

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood. Charles Dickens

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! Charles Lamb

Happiness lies, first of all, in health. George William Curtis

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. G.K. Chesterton

Promise a great and total change — from poor to rich, sickness to health, misery to ecstasy — and you will have followers. Robert Greene

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Jiddu Krishnamurti

The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together. Kurdish Saying

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. Francis Bacon Sr

Sickness always brings the soul nearer to God. James Lendall Basford

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Laurence Sterne

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. Elbert Hubbard

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this world: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. John Locke

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. Kurt Vonnegut

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Powerful words to help you let go of negative people in your life

No one needs draining, negative people in their lives. If you are going through a rough patch with someone close to you, here are some inspiring words to help you navigate this difficult process, curated by the Vibant review team.

1. “I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them.” ― Maggie Young

2. “Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.” — Leon Brown

3. “Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.” — Roy Bennett

4. “We don’t get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect.” ― Dana Arcuri

5. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” — Dr. Steve Maraboli

6. “Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.” — Robert Tew

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

8. “Let negative people live their negative lives with their negative minds.”― Moosa Rahat

9. “Don’t let toxic people sabotage your happiness, ruin your positive attitude, contaminate your mind or destroy your self-confidence. Instead, surround yourself with generous, positive, and nurturing people who will lift you up.”― Farshad Asl

10. “Remember…Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.” — Ziad K. Abdelnour

11. “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” — Karen E. Quinones Miller

12. “Unhappy people can be very dangerous, don’t forget that.” ― S.E. Lynes

13. “As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.” ― John Mark Green

14. “No one forces a person to be negative, and no one forces anyone to be positive. The choice is up to an individual and that person alone.” — Byron Pulsifer

15. “When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.” ― Edmond Mbiaka

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Inspirational Words on Travel

Find inspiration in these words about travel and begin thinking about packing your suitcases today, all curated by the Vibant review team.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. – Maya Angelou

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes

Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. – Mohammed

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. – Jack Kerouac

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends,but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy

Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – Lin Yutang

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – Dolly Parton

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” – Hunter S. Thompson

Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – James Michener

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Life changing quotes in modern literature

Ever read something that gave you that a-ha moment? These life changing quotes from modern literature and selected by the Vibant review team may do just that.

"I remembered everything. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull. Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, would numb and cover them. But they were part of me. They were my landscape."

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

—George Eliot, Middlemarch

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud."

—Yann Martel, Life of Pi

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

—John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'"

—Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"'Are you ready?' Klaus asked finally. 'No,' Sunny answered. 'Me neither,' Violet said, 'but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.'"

—Daniel Handler, The Ersatz Elevator

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Motivational quotes to get you on track now

Need a bit of motivation in your life? Then read through these famous quotes and get on track now, curated by the Vibant review team.

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” – Charles R. Swindoll

“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” – William Arthur Ward

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – Greg Anderson

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.” – Arnold Toynbee

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”– Benjamin Disraeli

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” – Bern Williams

“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” – Hal Borland

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.” – Michael Jordan

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘Press On’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong

“Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda

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Quotes About Animals That Will Make You A Better Human

Full of love and loyalty, our pets make for great friends. Here is the Vibant review team’s roundup of the best quotes about animals and how they make us better humans.

1. "If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."―James Herriot

2. "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." ― Anatole France

3. "You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us." ― Robert Louis Stevenson

4. "We patronize the animals for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they are more finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other Nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth." ― Henry Beston

5. "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." ― Alice Walker

6. "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ― Mahatma Gandhi

7. "An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ― Martin Buber

8. "I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth." ― Walt Whitman

9. "We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself." ― Farley Mowat

10. "Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ― George Eliot

11. "Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to." ― Alfred A. Montapert

12. "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem." ― A.A. Milne

13. "How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul." ― Frances Hodgson Burnett

14. "Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet" ― Marc Bekoff

15. "He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind of music. Maybe it was the song in their own hearts that they walked to." ― Laura Adams Armer

16. "Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know." ― Irene M. Pepperberg

17. "Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us." ― Matthew Scully

18. "Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do." ― Gregory Maguire

19. "For centuries poets, some poets, have tried to give a voice to the animals, and readers, some readers, have felt empathy and sorrow. If animals did have voices, and they could speak with the tongues of angels—at the very least with the tongues of angels—they would be unable to save themselves from us. What good would language do? Their mysterious otherness has not saved them, nor have their beautiful songs and coats and skins and shells and eyes."― Joy Williams

20. "The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans." ― Jean M. Auel

21. "Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have repeated our ignorance, one to the other, we have mistaken it for knowledge." ― Tom Regan

22. "Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral." ― Charles Darwin

23. "Animals are the bridge between us and the beauty of all that is natural. They show us what's missing in our lives, and how to love ourselves more completely and unconditionally. They connect us back to who we are, and to the purpose of why we're here." ― Trisha McCagh

24. "Maybe it's animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting." ― Carol Emshwiller

25. "To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told — that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks." ― Beryl Markham

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