Have you grown weary of the pandemic? It’s going on and on and on. Dirty politics is everywhere. And bad people, angry people are showing their ugly everywhere. People suffering injustices and hatred are trying to make their voices heard—everywhere. How do you hang on in such trying times? You nourish your soul a little or a lot every-single-day.
Society tells us that women suffer the emotional arrows of life more acutely. But your gender or the gender you choose, the color of your skin, your religious or ethnic or cultural lives—none of that means you don’t suffer. We are all hurting one way or another. Please read these quotes with your own pronouns of choice, your own gender, your own self in mind. I hope this collection of quotes can help nourish your soul a little today.
No Matter How Dark it Seems
There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.
Geraldine Solon
You Can’t Control it All
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
See the Good
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
Deborah Day
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
Fred Rogers
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.
Barbara Kingsolver
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make Time for Self-Care
Keep taking time for yourself until you are you again.
Lalah Delia
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.
Brian Andreas
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
As the quotes have said, self-care isn’t selfish. Self-care can be a ritual or any of 21 ways to be kind to yourself.
Remember Hope
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Desmond Tutu
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Elie Weisel
Nourish Your Soul
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Dorothy Day
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Washington Thurman
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Remember Love
Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. Thich Nhat Hanh
It seems simplistic. And maybe it is. But when the situation becomes too much love yourself enough to nourish your soul. Do it every day, but especially during when life is hard. Make room for those activities that feed your soul. That self-nourishment will get you through whatever difficulties you face.