What's a quote that helps you get through hard times, or one that you live by every day?

I'll start with a few :D

• Be the change you want to see - I think about this daily. We live in a messed up world where hate, rudeness and apathy is becoming increasingly common. Let's not resort to being bad or negative and stand up for what we believe in and spread kindness (as corny as it sounds but I live by this)
• Does your fear matter more, or what is after your fear? - This is silly, but I heard it in a Dhar Mann video...um...but honestly that is deep, cuz we all have our own fears and insecurities when we have a goal in mind - and while these fears can stop us, we have to remember WHY we have this goal in the first place, and also to push ourselves to our fullest potential so we can achieve the goals we'll be so happy about, if that makes sense :3
• A butterfly can't see its own beauty - everyone thinks butterflies are beautiful, right? (i lowk dislike all bugs but for the sake of this forum let me pretend i do) the thing is, they can't see how pretty their wings look! Same with us...we may have insecurities about certain physical or personal attributes we have, but everyone else, especially those who love us, see our true beauty and potential. This is a reminder that we have to be kinder to ourselves and love who we are. We are all made a certain way for a reason, we all have these physical attributes for a reason, we all have different beauty marks, scars, etc for a reason, we all have certain interests and personality FOR A REASON; these all make us, us. We just have to learn to cherish that :3

I hope this will help whoever is going through a rough patch, or whoever needs to hear this. Have a great day/night! :D

mine is..

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." -Albert Camus 

He is one of my favorite writers but he helped me at my lowest when I first got into his books and learned about the philosophy of Absurdity, the world is absurd but I must continue on with life because simply ending it wouldn't fix a thing. 

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood." —Stephen Covey

"Life is surreal, don't let it get to you, don't let it destroy you." Sur from the movie Tag (the quote really resonates with me but don't look into the film if you can't handle splatter films)

"I am happy, because everyone loves me"-Louis Wain (from his last public work) and also "I fell in love with a lovely kitten, and that kitten was myself" 

"I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid/my imaginations taking me away/even though I'll never know what's up ahead, I'm never letting go." Owl City (from the track Alligator Sky)

"It always seems bad at first, but then I find a way. I always have." - Samurai Jack, Season 5

i think i was in junior high when that was airing. in the context of the episode, Jack's stuck in some cave, realizing how hopeless his situation is, and begins to contemplate suicide.
i think originally, this quote always came to my mind when i was struggling with schoolwork, but since high school, i've...been through worse, to put things lightly. but...no matter how dark or hopeless things might seem, things always seem to kind of work out. this quote always reminds me of that.

"Agony is your triumph." - KM 3-1 from the Travis Strikes Again soundtrack

this one's just a lyric from a song in a game that always stuck out to me. i always repeat it to myself whenever i'm doing something i find particularly unpleasant. 

"You take what you can get, and you die with it." - Now, Now - Lucie, Too

another lyric from a song i like. this lyric...i guess put an attitude i have towards life into words. i can't quite explain it, but i find it comforting.

"I'm looking for meaning in life; ...I walk because I was born" - Siinamota - Strobe Light

i think i've struggled with feeling like being alive was either a mistake or pointless since i was a teenager--not to sound edgy, that's just...how i feel sometimes. it's hard to put into words. i find myself holding onto this lyric a lot because of that--the only justification needed for being alive is because you were born.

"Have you ever felt yourself slipping away? I am, I mean, I was, slipping away; But no matter what I am, I'm me; and I know me, so I'm okay." - Eyedea - The Dive

i don't quite know when or how this started, or what specifically brought it on, but for a while, i'd have moments where i'd randomly start spiraling, wondering if i'm a good or a bad person. like, if i were a good person, i feel like my life would be better, and people would like me more...that kind of thing. i'm not phrasing it very well, i was thinking myself into insanity for a little while. this entire 9 minute song kind of put this process into words for me, this is how it felt; like you fall further and further into the bottomless pit that is your own insanity, and the further you fall, the less and less sure you know what's happening, or if you'll even be ok...and then suddenly, you reach the other side, and everything's okay. you're okay, and now i feel better, because i know i'm okay.

"I'm okay now. I...am me." - Sayaka Hiwatari

there's a bit in the game Sayaka is from where she essentially has a mental breakdown after realizing both that the world around her is somewhat fake, and that there's really nothing stopping her from basically being a bad person, because no matter what she does, it'll be fixed regardless (she has another quote that i really like around here, something like "I'm broken...can someone fix me?").
after a whole thing in the game, she comes to terms with the world around her, and the different aspects of herself, and says "I'm okay now".
i think i head this quote at a really good time, i was playing the game at around the same time i had a really bad heartbreak, and i essentially started spiraling, thinking of every possible reason as to why this person didn't like me, eventually turning into a breakdown where i felt like i was an irredeemably terrible person for a few reasons. but then...everything just kind of fell into place, like i understood everything. i thought i was mentally ill for feeling a certain way, but then i realized that it was normal to feel like that. i realized that that's just me. i am me.

there are other quotes i could pull, but i'm drawing blanks at the moment.

"There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it,"- Billie Joe Armstrong. 
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for," - John A. Shedd.
"Making mistakes is a lot better than doing nothing," - Billie Joe Armstrong.
"We miss you," - my old English teacher.
"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold," - Johnny Cade.

I have no real reason as to why these are my quotes, or I do and I just haven't figured it out yet.
BJA ones probably because..He's the reason I'm alive? 
The others just are there in my head and I think about on the daily.

Love this thread! My go to is:

 "Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear." -FDR

I don't remember where I got this from or who I'm quoting, but it goes something like "the hardest part is always the beginning, once you get going it gets easier."

“and anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain, don’t carry the world upon your shoulders” - Hey Jude, The Beatles 

not only this is one of my favorite songs, but also the one I would sing in my head whenever I was struggling. as the years have passed this part of the lyrics still holds a special place in my heart. :) to the point that I’ve started using that same name for myself. It’s interesting how music can heal your soul.

another quote from another song is:

“you gotta make your own kind of music, sing your own special song even if nobody else sings along” - Make Your Own Kind Of Music, Cass Elliot 

this song really speaks to me. mostly because at least once we all have found ourselves completely alone, maybe even alienated from the world, it happens to think that we might not make it if there isn’t anyone to accompany us along the way. however we shouldn’t be scared to be different, we shouldn’t be afraid of judgement, we shouldn’t fear walking this world alone. just be yourself, sing from the top of your lungs the melody of your soul, let your personality shine; there will always be someone who’ll feel inspired to do the same, or someone who might join you, but even when no one sings along, keep doing it, for yourself. don’t stop doing what brings you joy just because there’s no one to share it with :) 

"behold, I AM with you. Even to the end of the age."

Mine is a classic from President Theodore Roosevelt. It’s from the Gilded Age (or a point close to it), so it uses gendered language. It’s taken from an exquisitely written—and extraordinarily lengthy—speech he gave in Paris. Language has changed much over time, and though it may appear that he wrote the mother of all run-on sentences, his command of English was so complete that the second sentence—the one forming the majority of the paragraph—is a brilliantly constructed example of turn-of-the-century prose, not a run-on.

He wrote:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

—Theodore Roosevelt

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

My quote isn't encouraging as much as simply a reminder I live with. It came from a dream, as a friend held me accountable.

"You don't want to stop living. You want to stop being sad."

It's something that I have to remember when I start spiraling. It doesn't always work, but it's helped a lot.

"This too shall pass"

"No one gets out of life alive"

"It is better to have died living than to have died never having lived at all."

"Pleasures when they go beyond certain limits are punishments."

"The skibidi rizz in you is more powerful than the anti-skibidi in others. What if you just decided to skibidi rizz and turn into a skibidi rizzler that way you could hit the griddy on em when when the double tapped sick 90s skrungo style? Totally happypilled, and joycore, all you gotta do is learnmaxx and selfworkmaxx to friendmaxx, Shrimple as fried rice! On gonga jit! Be a fuchalatoogan! You gyatt this!"

genuinely old kanye quotes. i KNOW he’s a bad guy but genuinely these quotes have inspired me beyond words. I’ve havent been insecure ever since these dropped.

“Not everyone likes you, but not everyone matters”

“One billion smiles and mine is my favorite”

“I need a room full of mirrors so i can be surrounded by winners”

“I wouldn’t wish her the best, because she’d end up with me”

“It’s 2am and i just can’t stop thinking about myself”

i really like this one from meet the robinsons (although now I really think about it, it's more like a motto!):

"Keep moving forward"

Something so insanely simple yet I feel that it has a certain power to it if you can really believe!

Not really a quote but like my own personal rule of thumb: no matter what you do or who you are, someone is still not going to like you. So, you might as well be the person that YOU like and not what everyone else likes 

uhhh its so dumb but "fuck it we ball" bc idk why tbh we just gonna do it

"Do you wanna know your only flaw? Your first instinct is saying no, always. It's like you're your own enemy"

my English teacher after I won a competition I refused to participate in at first, that changed my whole perspective 

“We fall because someone pushes us, and we get back up so we can push back” – Richard John Grayson