I think one of the most powerful feelings is when you feel understood. When things finally make sense and you realize that what you are going through is valid. Relatable quotes have often done this to me.
When I was at a point in life where I was really unhappy being how I was and no one around me allowed me to express my feelings, it was a quote that supported me. It was this quote:
“So many spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.”
– A.J. Materi
I am overestimating when I say that this quote saved me. I was in a very dark situation and I had no validation from my family about it. This relatable quote was the spark that started my journey of healing, therapy, quitting my job, and choosing what I felt was right for me.
I hope that these relatable quotes about life will support and comfort you too. I’ve hand-picked them to be relatable to anyone who’s living or has lived the challenges of this world. Here they are:
Relatable Quotes
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
―Heracl*tus
“What deep wounds ever healed without a scar?”
―Lord Byron
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.”
―Paulo Coelho
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
― Wayne W. Dyer
“You cannot control the results, only your actions.”
― Allan Lokos
“Men are not punished for their sins but by them.”
― Kin Hubbard
“If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?”
― Alexandra Katehakis
“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
―Marie Curie
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
―Pablo Picasso
“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness but unlock your true strength.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
―Voltaire
“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.”
― Vera Nazarian
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
―Stephen Hawking
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
―Jimmy Dean
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.”
―Barack Obama
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
―A.A. Milne
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
―Oscar Wilde
“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and loved more than you’ll ever know.”
―A.A. Milne
“A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.”
―China Miéville
“When it rains, look for rainbows; when it’s dark, look for stars.”
―Oscar Wilde
“What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.”
―Alberto Caeiro
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”
―J.K. Rowling
“If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters. 204 if you’re in Japan.”
―Claire Cook
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
―James Allen
“To lose patience is to lose the battle.”
―Mahatma Gandhi
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
―Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.”
―Laurie Halse Anderson
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.”
―Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
―Robert H. Schuller
“It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed.”
―Doe Zantamata
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.”
―Ursula K. Le Guin
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.”
―Gilda Radner
“Give solitude a chance. You’ve got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back.”
― Joshua Becker
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
―Amit Ray
“Maybe I’d always been broken and dark inside.”
―Sarah J. Maas
“You’re alive and breathing. That’s a fine reason to celebrate.”
―John Landry
“Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference.”
―Wally Lamb
“Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.”
―Willow Smith
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius
“It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
― May Sarton
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
―Robert Brault
“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”
―Malcolm S. Forbes
“Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.”
―H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
―Michael Jordan
“I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.”
― Elayne Boosler
“It’s funny, but you never really think much about breathing. Until it’s all you ever think about.”
―Tim Winton
“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves.”
―Eda LeShan
“You are not what you’ve done. You are what you keep doing.”
―Jack Butcher
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
―Friedrich Nietzsche
“Every breath you take proves just how blessed you really are.”
―John Landry
“I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.”
―Estelle
“He lives most life whoever breathes most air.”
―Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
―Paolo Coelho
“There’s something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.”
―E.A. Bucchianeri
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change”
―Albert Einstein
“Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us.”
―Amit Ray
“In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and your energy into something positive.”
―Lee Iacocca
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip.”
―Glenn Beck
“There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.”
―Janet Kilburn Phillips
“Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.”
―Susan Cain
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
―Winston Churchill
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of chaos, and sometimes in the middle of chaos, you find yourself.”
―Boonaa Mohammed
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
―Henri Matisse
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
―Robert Louis Stevenson
“There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”
―Bill Waterson
“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
―Dan Pearce
“But there were worse things than disappointment, and I’d lived through several of them already.”
―R.J. Anderson
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
―Robert Frost
“Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
―Kevin Hart
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
―M. Scott Peck
“It doesn’t matter how slow you go, as long as you don’t stop.”
―Confucius
“A sunflower field is like a sky with a thousand suns.”
―Corina Abulahm-Negura
“It was strange, really. A couple of months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently, I could.”
― Gabrielle Zevin
“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
―Michael Bassey Johnson
“Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s beautiful. But most of the time, it’s both.”
―Lana Lang
“The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The second-best time to plant a tree is today.”
―Eliud Kipchoge
“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”
― Dan Brown
“It’s the little things that keep us going.”
―Richie Norton
“As long as you’re still alive, you always have the chance to start again.”
―Emily Acker
“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
―Oprah Winfrey
“You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.”
―Michelle Obama
“Never underestimate the power of a simple smile, a kind word or the acknowledgment of another. Little gestures can move mountains.”
―David Cuschieri
“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
―Carol Burnett
“Like wildflowers; you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
―E.V.
“Life goes on, but the scars remain.”
―Lil Wayne
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
―Tina Fey
“Someday, I will let you go and it wouldn’t ache, someday I will realize, I deserve more.”
―Nitya Prakash
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
―Brigham Young
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
―Sir Edmund Hillary
“I am done with temporary people. Stay only if you mean it. Don’t make promises you can’t keep!”
―Kanushka
“I’m so done with people… If you tell me 5+5 equals 11, I’m like, fine.. okay… It is 11.”
―Sathyarekha Thangavel
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
―Albert Einstein
“Life goes on, even when you think it can’t. Even when you don’t especially want it to.”
―Jan Strnad
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