Quotes To Live By digs through The School of Life’s book collection to offer inspiring quotes about love, work, happiness and life and its struggles
Many of us nowadays find ourselves on a quest for self knowledge and healing in response to the pressures that come with everyday life. To help us on this journey, The School of Life has published a pithy collection of insightful aphorisms, Quotes To Live By.
Each quotation in the book is taken from The School of Life’s wider portfolio of books, which explore topics like the pursuit of love, success at work or strategies for mental calmness.
Leafing through the pages, you’ll find truisms that are alternately philosophical and punchily witty, each offering a refreshing perspective that might help you see life’s challenges through new eyes.
Reader’s Digest editors have compiled some of their favourite quotations from the book below.
Quotes about mental health
It isn’t logical that “being happy” should be any easier than learning the violin – or require any less effort.
Anxiety deserves greater dignity. It is not a sign of degeneracy; it is a justifiable expression of panic at our mysterious participation in a disordered, uncertain world.
We should never take seriously any worry that suddenly appears extremely pressing after midnight. What we panic about in the early hours should automatically be discounted. We should accept that night destroys reason.
Quotes about trying your best
A so-called “meaningful” job is any occupation that leaves us feeling, at the close of the day, that we have somehow either decreased the suffering or increased the satisfaction of another human being.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
We overcome procrastination, not by berating ourselves to ‘work harder’ but by attempting to weaken the background punishing perfectionism that is responsible for stalling us with fear.
Quotes about appreciating life
The upside of catastrophism: a string of pleasant surprises.
You have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of flowers, pretty skies and uneventful ‘boring’ days.
The best books help us to rediscover the exiled bits of ourselves.
More information:
https://www.readersdigest.co.uk/inspire/life/27-inspirational-quotes-about-life-and-struggles