44 quotes to live by for an empowered life

Feb 6

It's birthday week again! My sister and Brother-in-law celebrated their birthdays on Monday, my adopted Grandmother celebrated her 91st birthday on Tuesday, two of my friends are celebrating their birthdays today (Hi Steph and Erica! 🥳) and I’m celebrating my birthday on Sunday.

If you don't already know, I LOVE celebrating birthdays. And not just my own. I love celebrating everyone's birthday because it is a chance to celebrate the gift that specific person is in my life.

And I LOVE quotes.

There is something about a perfectly worded statement that has immense power.

Power to make us smile.

Power to make us think.

Power to evoke emotion.

And power to motivate us to strive towards the brightest, happiest, healthiest, kindest, most loving versions of ourselves.

So for my 44th birthday this year (yay repeating numbers!), I would love to share 44 of my favorite quotes.

Starting with this quote about celebration that really hit home as I thought about the idea of celebrating birthdays:

“People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained. Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle…. Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.”

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

These 44 quotes are the ones that always seem to strike a perfect chord for me.

They’ve influenced the person I am today and continue to empower me to fully embrace each day from a place of passion, excitement and joy at this gift of life and the blessing it is to have made it to this season.

And I would love for YOU to celebrate my birthday by expressing reverence or appreciation for some action you’ve taken for yourself over the past year!

My Favorite 44 Quotes to Live by for an Empowered Life

“The business of life is the acquisition of memories.” ~ Downton Abbey
“The key to our own freedom is “the willingness to take absolute responsibility for your life; the willingness to risk; the willingness to release yourself from judgement and reclaim your innocence, accepting and loving yourself for who you really are- human, imperfect and whole.” ~ Dr. Eva Edith Eger
“Forget all the reasons why it won’t work, and believe the one reason why it will.” ~Dr Eva Edith Eger
“We are hungry for the freedom to embrace life and to really know and be ourselves.” Dr Eva Edith Eger
“We become victims not because of what happens to us but when we choose to hold on to our victimization.” Dr Eva Edith Eger
“You’re my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye.”
"True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are, it requires you to be who you are.”~Brené Brown
“Self Confidence is the result of surviving a risk.” ~Jack Canfield
“The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream.” ~moss hart (about NYC)
“Find someone who feels like home and an adventure all at once.”
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” ~Harriet Van Horne
“Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairytale.” ~anonymous
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor and some style.” ~Maya Angelou
“Be a seeker of everyday magic”
“Love is bigger than anything in its way.” ~U2
“Joy is an act of spiritual resistance.” ~Rabbi Kleinbaum
“When you succumb to fear you are under the illusion that you can predict the future.” ~Jen Sincero
“I love her and it is the beginning of everything.” ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
"We are a culture of people who’ve bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won’t catch up with us.” ~Brené Brown
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” ~Anais Nin
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anais Nin
"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am." ~Anais Nin
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” ~Anais Nin
"Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.” ~Louis Schwartzberg
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” ~Dr. Seuss
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ~Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.” ~Dr. Seuss
“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”~Dr. Seuss
“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.” ~Dr. Seuss
“You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”~Dr. Seuss
"Be who you are and say what you mean. Because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” ~Dr. Seuss
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." ~Dr. Seuss
"Life's too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." ~Dr. Seuss
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking that created them.” ~Albert Einstein
“What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.” ~Mary Oliver
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” ~Charles Swindoll
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
“It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a world where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.” ~Brené Brown
“Everything is energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way.” ~Albert Einstein
“Life is just a series of obstacles preventing you from taking a nap.”
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.
“Stress is caused by being “here” and wanting to be “there”.” ~Eckhart Tolle
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” ~Rumi

Sometimes a person just resonates with me so there are multiple quotes from the same person. Some of the quotes don’t have a source because I don’t know where they came from! If you do, please let me know and I would love to give credit!