100+ best feel-good quotes and sayings to cheer people up

100+ best feel-good quotes and sayings to cheer people up

You deserve to be happy regardless of what life throws at you. Always hoping that the best is yet to come will keep you going despite the ups and downs. You do not require much to make yourself and the people around you happy. Most times, simple feel-good quotes will do the magic and make your life much happier.

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Many people are constantly looking for a source of happiness and inspiration to overcome their challenges. You can be inspired to harness your full potential and be happy with the feel-good quotes explored below.

Feel-good quotes and sayings to cheer you up

It is human to feel emotions of all kinds and not just happy. If you feel a little grumpy, use the quotes below to cheer yourself up or get inspired.

Short feel-good quotes

Every day may not be Monday, but the blues can persist throughout the week. Check out these short feel-good quotes to feel better today.

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  • Tension is who you think you are; relaxation is who you are. – Lao Tzu
  • Life is a sea of vibrant colours. Jump in. – A.D. Posey
  • The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. – Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Shine like the whole universe is yours. – Rumi
  • Nature does not hurry, yet everything gets accomplished. – Lao Tzu
  • I would always rather be happy than dignified. – Charlotte Bronte
  • There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
  • The darkest nights produce the brightest stars. – John Green
  • Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. – Anne Frank
  • The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett
  • Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened. – Dr. Seuss
  • If love is universal, no one can be left out. – Deepak Chopra
  • No medicine cures what happiness cannot. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • The wound is the place where the light enters you. – Rumi
  • If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate. — Patti Smith

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Feel-good Friday quotes for you

Feel-good quotes for you
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After five days of hard work, you deserve a break to forget your work week. Below is a selection of the best Friday quotes to get you ready for the weekend.

  • I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun. – Hanna Rhoades
  • Oh! It’s Friday again. Share the love that was missing during the week. In a worthy moment of peace and bliss. – S. O’Sade
  • You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens. – Mandy Hale
  • I challenge you to let every day be a Friday. Give yourself permission to be happy every day. – Joel Osteen
  • On Friday, I like to high five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humour. — Nanea Hoffman
  • Friday is like a superhero that always arrives just in time to stop me from savagely beating one of my coworkers with a keyboard. — Rico
  • It’s Friday morning, mankind! Good vibe, don’t frown and let the monster see you smile! – Napz Cherub Pellazo
  • Friday is a day to finish your goals for the week. It is a day to celebrate that which you set out to accomplish at the beginning of the week. Well done. — Byron Pulsifer
  • Friday is about hanging out with friends, having fun. – Rebecca Black
  • Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. – Steve Maraboli
  • Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things. – Walt Disney
  • Without the weekend, where would the week be? — Anthony T. Hincks
  • When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED. — Dr. Seuss
  • I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend. — Debasish Mridha
  • You know you’re doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights. — Donny Deutsch

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Positive feel-good quotes for you and your loved ones

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If you are in need of a little pick-me-up or are hoping to sprinkle some extra cheer onto an already delightful day, read through these feel-good quotes for you and your loved ones.

  • To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
  • At the end of each day write down on a calendar the best thing that happened to you that day. — Brenda Shoshann
  • I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think. — Volodymyr Zelensky
  • When you look good, you feel good. Confidence with what you're wearing is very important. If you feel good, you will always perform your best without worrying about anything. — Maria Sharapova
  • I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day. — Michael Phelps
  • Sometimes it's okay to give yourself a pat on the back and say, 'That was cool. That made me feel good.' — Sebastian Stan
  • When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better. — Solange Knowles
  • The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain
  • You can look in the mirror and find a million things wrong with yourself. Or you can look in the mirror and think, 'I feel good, I have my health, and I'm so blessed.' That's the way I choose to look at it. – Isla Fisher
  • What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. –Ernest Hemingway
  • If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good. – Oprah Winfrey
  • You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. – Ryan Gosling
  • Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him. – Frank A. Clark
  • Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God. – Wayne Dyer
  • When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up. – Herschel Walker

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Feel-good quotes for her

Feel-good quotes for her
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Life can be hectic, but there are little things you can do to remind yourself of all the good times and infuse your day with a tiny spark of joy. If your girl is going through a tough patch, boost her mood using the quotes below.

  • Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it. – Nicholas Sparks
  • Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement. – Welwyn Wilton Katz
  • You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. – Oscar Wilde
  • There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path. – Buddha
  • I swear I couldn’t love you more than I do right now, and yet I know I will tomorrow. – Leo Christopher
  • The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched. They are felt with the heart. – The Little Prince
  • A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. – Maya Angelou
  • Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. – Bernard M. Baruch
  • Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it. – Lindsey Vonn
  • Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. – Alen Cohen
  • Whatever you think you do well, do it. There is nothing better than feeling gratified. – Mike McManus
  • Believe you can, and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
  • If we feel good, we can keep going in the direction of the reality we’re creating. If we don’t feel good, we may reflect upon our beliefs and change them according to the reality we wish to create. – Alaric Hutchinson
  • Wherever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. – Shunryu Suzuki
  • Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase – Martin Luther King Jr.

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Feel-good quotes for him

Feel-good quotes for him
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Like women, men go through challenging and sad moments. You can make life a little better for your man by sending him a loving and inspiring quote.

  • Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A.A. Milne
  • If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. — A.A. Milne
  • Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’. – Audrey Hepburn
  • The answers keep unfolding as your life expands if you’re willing to see things for what they are and what they can be. – Oprah Winfrey
  • Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. – Mother Teresa
  • Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher
  • Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. – Steve Jobs
  • The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. – Carrie Jones
  • If I had but an hour of love, if that be all that is given me, an hour of love upon this earth, I would give my love to thee. — Alice Sebold
  • Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. – Theodore Roosevelt
  • Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. – Divyanka Tripathi
  • At the centre of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. – Fred Rogers
  • Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. – Helen Keller
  • Peace starts with suffering. Freedom starts with confinement. Courage starts with fear. Strength starts with surrender. Every mountain starts from beneath the earth, and you too shall rise. – Medusa
  • The water shines only by the sun. And it is you who are my sun. — Charles de Leusse
  • Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson
  • They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett

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Feel-good quotes about life

Feel-good quotes about life
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Many times, happiness feels fleeting. Our moments of bliss are just that, moments. There are so many times in the day when we are not having positive feelings, but you can change that with the quotes below.

  • When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often, we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
  • We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde
  • A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. – Bernard de Fontenelle
  • Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms
  • For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me. – Carol Burnett
  • Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good. – Laetitia Casta
  • You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good. – Jerry West
  • The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. – Charles Bukowski
  • Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll just get run over if you just sit there. – Will Rodgers
  • The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – W.B. Yeats
  • If somebody hurts you, it’s okay to cry a river. Just remember to build a bridge and get over it. – Taylor Swift
  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Ian Maclaren
  • If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside. – Julie Andrews
  • The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. – Meryl Streep
  • If plan A doesn’t work, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet! – Claire Cook

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When you don't feel good enough quotes to uplift your spirit

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In an effort to combat negativity and bring joy during challenging times, we have compiled a collection of quotes to make you feel good. They will uplift your spirit whenever you feel sad, stressed, or low.

  • Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that’s why it’s called The Present. – Bil Keane
  • Take a deep breath. Inhale peace, exhale happiness. – A.D. Posey
  • You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim. – Jon Kabat Zinn
  • Life is the dancer, and you are the dance – Eckhart Tolle
  • I have chosen to be happy because it's good for my health. – Voltaire
  • If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. – Oprah Winfrey
  • The past is gone, the future is not here, and now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy. – Deepak Chopra
  • Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. – Dennis Kimbro
  • Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. – The Little Prince
  • It’s better to walk alone than with a crowd going in the wrong direction. – Herman Su
  • I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I cannot accept not trying. – Michael Jordan
  • A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. – Christopher Reeve
  • Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. – Les Brown
  • If plan A doesn’t work, there are 25 more letters in the alphabet! – Claire Cook
  • A calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health. – Dalai Lama

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Sending and receiving feel-good quotes is one of the easiest ways to uplift people's moods. When you feel good, you are happier and more productive.

Legit.ng recently published a list of enlightening Lion King quotes that are applicable to real life. If you have watched The Lion King, you will appreciate the creativity with which it was scripted.

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