"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew." - Saint Francis de Sale Life is the best gift from God and one can live only once. Many times life takes on a rough journey where you feel others are better off than you. And sometimes life gives you more than you asked for and that takes to the seventh heaven. Life is really short and we need to live life to the fullest. One needs to have courage to be able to make mistakes and begin afresh. The following quotes contain words that help raise a depressed soul. These quotes help see the light behind every darkness and make one move forward. "Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive." ~ Elbert Hubbard "He who has a why to live can bear almost anyhow." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." ~ Robert Frost "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." ~ George Bernard Shaw "May you live every day of your life." ~ Jonathan Swift "This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively." ~ Norman Vincent Peale "Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any." ~ Danielle Fotopoulis "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can." ~ John Wesley "You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it." ~ Robert Anthony "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." ~ Martin Luther King "Fall seven times, stand up eight." ~ Japanese proverb "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." ~ Hellen Keller "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~ Christopher Columbus "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present." ~ B. Olatunji "The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being." ~ Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama "You must be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi "An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded." ~ Pope John Paul I "Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom." ~ Earl Shoaf "A broken heart is like a world without hope, a mind without thought and me without you." ~ Pascale Kasirabo "Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring." ~ Oscar Wilde "Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." ~ Napoleon Hill "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed-door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." ~ Alexander Graham Bell "The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy." ~ Jim Roh "I am going to smile and make you think I'm happy, I'm going to laugh, so you don't see me cry, I'm going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me - I'm going to smile". ~ Anonymous "I can't talk to you anymore, it's not that I am mad at you, it's just that when I talk to you I realize how much I love you and when I realize how much I love you, I realize I can't have you and that makes me love you even more". ~ Unknown "You can't make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved. The rest is up to the person to realize your worth." "Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh "Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world." ~ C.S. Lewis "You women are daughters of God. You are precious. You are made in the image of our Heavenly Mother." ~ Spencer W. Kimball "Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God." ~ Spencer W. Kimball "Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer." ~ Susa Young Gates "You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good." ~ James E. Faust "A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl." ~ Stephan Hoeller "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller "Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that..." ~ Diana, Princess of Wales. "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened." ~ Montaigne "Start off every day with a smile and get it over with." ~ W. C. Fields "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return." ~ Arthur C. Clarke "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." ~ Mark Twain "If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, "You are wrong." This method works every time." ~ Henry Link "If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito." ~ Unknown "If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns." ~ Unknown "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." ~ Abraham Lincoln "Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment." ~ Greenville Kleisser. Life is difficult for every one, what makes it easier for some is the attitude. Make sure you have your fighting spirits up and are courageous enough to face any challenges life offers.