David Eddings Compassion Is a Kind of Love Quote
100 of the Most Uplifting Quotes Ever
When it feels like the world is against you, let these wise words lift your spirits and inspire you to keep going.
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Looking for a little uplift? To celebrate Reader's Digest's 100th anniversary,we combed through the archives to collect 100 of the most uplifting quotes we've ever published. We hope you enjoy them, and when you're in the mood for more, be sure to check out our other compilations of happy quotes, funny quotes, quotes from famous people, and powerful quotes about life.
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Queen Latifah
Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There's only one you.
RD Issue: October 2008
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Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
RD Issue: March 1956
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Salma Hayek
People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.
RD Issue: August 2013
RELATED: Body Positive Quotes
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Eleanor C. Wood
Living is the art of getting used to what we didn't expect.
RD Issue: July 1970
RELATED: Confidence Quotes
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Mia Farrow
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
RD Issue: April 2006
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Franklin P. Jones
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
RD Issue: September 1977
RELATED: Love Quotes
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George Skolsky
Kindness is one thing you can't give away. It always comes back.
RD Issue: April 1954
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Sally Koch
Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
RD Issue: January 1995
RELATED: Spiritual Quotes
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Jon Bon Jovi
Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.
"Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" 2013
RELATED: Quotes About Success
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Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing that you'll make one.
RD Issue: January 1953
RELATED: Empowering Strength Quotes
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Harper Lee
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
RD Issue: October 1989
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G.K. Chesterton
There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain.
RD Issue: June 1926
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Walter Anderson
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.
RD Issue: October 1987
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Robert Frost
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
RD Issue: March 1959
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Ruth E. Renkel
Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining nearby.
RD Issue: February 1997
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Bonnie Prudden
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
RD Issue: December 1980
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John Lennon
Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.
"Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" 2013
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Paul McCartney
What's wrong with being sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
RD Issue: December 2005
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Bob Talbert
Having a young child explain something exciting he has seen is the finest example of communication you will ever hear or see.
RD Issue: July 1970
RELATED: Kids' Quotes About Life
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Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Memories are everyone's second chance at happiness.
RD Issue: October 1979
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A.J. Cronin
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.
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Tom Stoppard
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
RD Issue:July 2000
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Jonathan Winters
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
RD Issue: June 1990
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George Clooney
My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."
RD Issue: July 2006
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Jean Sibelius
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.
RD Issue: October 1979
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Alexandra Stoddard
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
RD Issue: March 1997
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
RD Issue: July 1970
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Les Paul
Don't say you can't until you prove you can't.
RD Issue: June 1957
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David Eddings
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
RD Issue: May 1997
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Kermit the Frog
It's a whole lot more satisfying to reach for the stars, even if you end up landing only on the moon.
RD Issue: January 2007
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Dolly Parton
I still close my eyes and go home—I can always draw from that.
RD Issue: October 2008
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Ellen DeGeneres
Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
RD Issue: January 2007
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
RD Issue: November 1941
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Bertrand Russell
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
RD Issue: December 1950
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Lionel Barrymore
The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness.
RD Issue: April 1953
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Lisa Kogan
Even the worst haircut eventually grows out.
RD Issue: January 2007
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Joseph Mayer
You are genuinely happy if you don't know why.
RD Issue: March 1956
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Oscar Wilde
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
RD Issue: August 1940
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Marcelene Cox
Worry is like sand in an oyster: a little produces a pearl, too much kills the animal.
RD Issue: December 1955
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Ben Morcell
Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.
RD Issue: January 1961
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Hugh Mulligan
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
RD Issue: October 1981
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Hal Borland
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
RD Issue: January 1983
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Louis Nizer
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
RD Issue: January 1978
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Sarah Barker
The sky isn't the limit—the sky has no limit.
RD Issue: April 2020
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Maggie Kuhn
Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
RD Issue: May 2016
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Eugene F. Ware
All glory comes from daring to begin.
RD Issue: January 1978
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Liz Smith
If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.
RD Issue: January 1992
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J.K. Rowling
It is our choices that show what we really are, far more than our abilities.
RD Issue: January 2000
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Brooke Shields
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window—or break down a door.
RD Issue: April 2006
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Doug Larson
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
RD Issue: December 2005
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Bono
Joy is one of the only emotions you can't contrive.
RD Issue: December 2005
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Vincent Van Gogh
Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.
RD Issue: May 1998
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George E. Woodberry
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
RD Issue: January 1983
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Diane Ackerman
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
RD Issue: September 2011
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John Cleese
He who laughs most learns best.
RD Issue: May 2016
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Anna Quindlen
A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree—or even, occasionally, the careless—may turn out to be half a life.
RD Issue: January 2007
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Elmer G. Leterman
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
RD Issue: February 1958
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John W. Gardner
We are not at our best perched at the summit; we are climbers, at our best when the way is steep.
RD Issue: July 1970
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Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
RD Issue: April 1976
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Al Bernstein
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
RD Issue: April 1976
RELATED: Leadership Quotes
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Karla Kuban
Without darkness, there are no dreams.
RD Issue: December 1999
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Celine Dion
The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.
RD Issue: January 2001
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Amy Poehler
There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.
RD Issue: August 2013
RELATED: Body Positive Quotes
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James Leo Herlihy
Be yourself. No one can ever tell you that you're doing it wrong.
RD Issue: September 1982
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Lynn Lively
Procrastination means you know what you need to do and you don't do it. If you don't know what to do, you aren't procrastinating. You are thinking.
RD Issue: December 1999
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Maya Angelou
I've learned that people will forget what you've said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
RD Issue: August 2013
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Valerie Jarrett
Just because you're nervous doesn't mean you have to look nervous. Nobody can look inside you. Project what you want to project.
RD Issue: August 2013
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Robert D. Ballard
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not opening it?
RD Issue: May 1998
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Elsa Schiaparelli
If you can't reach your destination by one road, try another.
RD Issue: January 1961
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William Dean Howells
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
RD Issue: January 1974
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George Bernard Shaw
Be like the sun and the meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
RD Issue: September 1982
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Robert Heller
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.
RD Issue: August 2013
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
RD Issue: September 1982
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Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
RD Issue: June 2019
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Naomi Judd
A dead end is just a good place to turn around.
RD Issue: January 2004
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Dr. Phil McGraw
My dad used to say, You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought of you if you knew how seldom they did.
RD Issue: December 2002
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Gen. George S. Patton
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
RD Issue: November 2018
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Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
RD Issue: October 1994
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Oprah Winfrey
Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."
RD Issue: June 2004
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Jennifer Aniston
Friends are the family we choose.
RD Issue: December 2002
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Billy Idol
If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
RD Issue: December 2002
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Twyla Tharp
Age is not the enemy. Stagnation is the enemy. Complacency is the enemy. Stasis is the enemy
RD Issue: May 2020
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Simone Biles
I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.
RD Issue: July/August 2020
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Bernie Siegel
In the face of uncertainty, there is nothing wrong with hope.
RD Issue: July 1990
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Billie Jean King
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make it a doozy.
RD Issue: January 2004
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J.K. Rowling
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
RD Issue: November 2003
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Joan Baez
Action is the antidote to despair.
RD Issue: May 1997
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Harry Ruby
The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
RD Issue: June 1952
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Oprah Winfrey
Be thankful for what you have—you'll end up having more.
RD Issue: December 2019/January 2020
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Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
RD Issue: February 1981
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Aretha Franklin
It's the rough side of the mountain that's the easiest to climb; the smooth side doesn't have anything for you to hang on to.
RD Issue: May 2019
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Leo Buscaglia
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing!
RD Issue: October 1987
Additional reporting research done by Lucie Turkel and Greg Daugherty
Originally Published: October 29, 2021
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David Eddings Compassion Is a Kind of Love Quote
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