We L-O-V-E quote pictures and we know you do too! They are fun and inspiring to share with family and friends. If you are a page admin on Social Media then inspiring quote pictures are important to your engagement. Finding a viral quote image that is also under creative commons license isn’t always so easy.

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
-Ben Carson

Creating quote pictures can be fun if you’re into that, but that’s not always an option. We realize this and want to help! So here it is. 🙂 This is the first series of our free quote memes we’ll be offering. We’ve gathered some of the most VIRAL statements and made them into eye-catching, unique pictures.

Quote Memes for your Social Media & Blog

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Feel free to tell others about these or link back to us if you’d like on your blog or on social media (but you don’t have to). Our co-creator here at Power of Positivity, Kristen Butler, loves designing and creating quote pictures and felt the desire to share and release these as a GIFT to you for your love and support in this community. 🙂

We would LOVE to hear from you! Comment with the number of your favorite quote picture. If you have a quote you’d like to see for the next free quote pictures collection, let us know in the comments, too. We REALLY look forward to hearing your feedback. Especially, Kristen! 😉

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#1. Positive Quote Memes:

Think like a proton. Always Positive.

 

#2. Life Quote Pictures:

There is nothing in a caterpillar, that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

– Buckminster Fuller

#3. Life Quote Memes:

Find joy in the ordinary.

 

#4. Positive Quote Pictures:

The greatest prison people can live in is fear of what others think.

 

#5. Positive Quote Memes:

Just Let it  Go…

 

#6. Positive Quote Pictures:

Amaze yourself.

 

#7. Positive Quote Memes:

Out of difficulties, grow miracles.

– Jean De La Breye’re

 

#8. Positive Quote Pictures:

Live Life Out Loud!

 

#9. Positive Quote Memes:

Miracles always happen when you believe.

 

#10. Positive Quote Memes:

I am realistic. I expect miracles.

 

#11. Positive Quote Pictures:

Be the good.

 

#12. Positive Pictures:

Be so good, they can’t ignore you.

-Steve Martin

#13. Positive Quote Memes:

Hey, don’t be so hard on yourself.

 

#14. Positive Quote Pictures:

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.
Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, all the fears you have overcome.

 

#15. Positive Quote Memes:

Be. Be prepared to be who you were created to be. And trust… that you will be given the
resources, relationships, opportunities, and strength, to bring your purpose to fruition.
– Carren Smith

#16. BONUS: Positive Quote Memes:

“No” is a complete sentence and it doesn’t require justification or an explanation.

 

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Marguerite Johnson, who became known as Maya Angelou was brought into this world on April 4, 1928. And on May 28th, 2014, Maya returned home. Maya Angelou was a beacon of light for the people, shining brightly and inspiring them to find compassion, humanity, forgiveness, and live their best life. To honor her eternal spirit, we are sharing 25 of our favorite Maya Angelou Quotes that will continue to inspire all who reads them.

Shine ON, Maya!

25 Best Maya Angelou Quotes

1. If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

2. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou

3. Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. – Maya Angelou

4. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. – Maya Angelou

5. You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’ – Maya Angelou

6. You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. – Maya Angelou

7. Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud – Maya Angelou

8. I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. – Maya Angelou

9. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard. – Maya Angelou

10. I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

11. During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. – Maya Angelou

12. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. – Maya Angelou

13. Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou

14. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

15. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! – Maya Angelou

16. I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. – Maya Angelou

17. The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

18. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’ – Maya Angelou

19. Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities. – Maya Angelou

20. The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently. – Maya Angelou

21. I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all. – Maya Angelou

22. Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‘That’s life.’ – Maya Angelou

23. When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‘Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.’ – Maya Angelou

24. All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided. – Maya Angelou

25. In all my work, I try to say – ‘You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?’ – Maya Angelou

 

Shine On!

Please add to this tribute with your favorite Maya Angelou quotes in a comment below. 

Shine ON Maya, you have risen for the people, and your spirit will forever be remembered by everyone here, and all over the world.

“You are quite the inspiration…
You have a story inside that could help someone else RIGHT NOW!”

 

Hello. You’re just the person I wanted to talk with today. Yes… YOU!  I think you are just what this world needs.

You’re a person that never gives up. Throughout the triumphs of your life there are still trials and tribulations, but you’ve always looked for the positive and get by (and very well, too).

You’ve a beautiful heart and a strong spirit. Helping others is your nature and you strive to contribute to the expansion of a better world and future generation.

So, how do I know? Because you’re reading this right now!

There’s no coincidence that we found each other. 😉 Your soul is drawn to the light.

It thirsts to absorb more positivity, inspiration and knowledge for expansion.

But, psst. . . I have a little secret. You’re quite the inspiration. You have a story inside of you that could help someone else RIGHT NOW!

Actually, I would say it could probably CHANGE the direction of another person’s entire day; maybe even change their life. The very act of sharing that story is part of the purpose of your day today.

Your Soul led you here to share and shine the Power of Positivity.

In the comments below, talk about a time in your life of victory in the face of adversity. I know there’s a story in your heart that will help another person who might be feeling very down, discouraged and maybe even ready to give up.

We know it’s in there and we are looking forward to reading it and sharing it with the Power of Positivity Community that is 700,000 STRONG.

INSPIRE others today. . . READY, SET, GO!! 

P.S. Our favorites will be chosen for an upcoming blog and project on Power of Positivity. Please be sure to comment from Facebook or include your email in the field provided. Thank you!!!

 The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities. – Guy Finley, bestselling author

What is the secret of being successful in all worlds?  This story from world-renowned author Guy Finley teaches an important lesson, and secret to being successful in all worlds – no matter what your past may hold.

“A reporter who had a deep and personal interest in higher spiritual matters heard of a certain teacher of truth who was held in high repute. But, what caught his attention, more than anything else, was that this modern-day master was not only considered to have the wisdom of a Solomon, but apparently had Solomon’s wealth as well. Although the details were sketchy, word on the street held that, in his earlier years, he was the successful CEO of an equally successful corporation that he founded. Then, for reasons unknown, he retired and started his philanthropic and spiritual school around the same time. And so it came to pass that the reporter sought out an interview with this man of mystery, hoping to learn the secret of his success in both worlds. Shortly thereafter, he was granted a personal audience with the master.

“Thank you for allowing me this opportunity to speak with you personally. I won’t take much of your time.”

“Not a problem, at all; how can I help you? What is it you would like to know?”

Something in the presence and manner of the master told him that there was little point in trying to mask his real reason for wanting to speak with him, and so the reporter came right to the point.

“Sir, what I really want to know is how in the world were you able to amass such a fortune, not to mention becoming so respected, world over, as being one of the wisest men on earth?”

The master gazed directly into the eyes of the reporter. After many years of sitting with inquiring visitors of all levels, he could easily see into the heart of those who had come to see him with such questions. What he found there determined how he answered their questions.

In this instance, he could see that this young man seated before him had sufficient self-knowledge to understand the subtlety of the answer he was about to give. The master leaned forward, and spoke:

“In every sense of the word, the abundance in my life can all be attributed to a very simple method, something I started to practice when I was still a fairly young man. If you wish to know this secret I would be glad to share it with you.”

The reporter nodded “Yes!”

The master continued his thought: “Every time I got ready to give someone my two cents… I learned to save them instead.”

 

(Excerpted from Guy Finley’s new forthcoming book, The Secret of Your Immortal Self, published by Llewellyn Worldwide, to be released March, 2015.)

 

Many of us have learned more than one lesson in love from the same source–Mr. Fred Rogers. The man behind the fame of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” was a special individual with a kind and caring heart. He has been gone from us for some time now. But still, his lessons and legacy live on in so many of us.

His selflessness was remarkable. Today, we are sharing a short video of Mr. Rogers accepting an award. And, even at the moment that was his time, he used the moment as a lesson in love.

Many of us know someone special who gave us the confidence to hold onto hope and achieve our dreams. They built your confidence, gave you a strong voice, told you they loved you, or maybe just hugged you when you needed it most.

So, once we saw this video of the one and only Mr. Fred Rogers giving an acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the 1997 Emmy Awards we knew that we must share it with you.

This 10-second lesson in love will stick with you forever.

Many people have helped you to where you are right now,  whether you’ve realized it or not.  The direction life takes is guided by individual offerings of love that has guided you into your current state of being.

So ask yourself, “Who has loved me into being?“

We understand the emotions that may have just come up, and if you would like, please share your 10-second experience with us below.

Those who have cared about you and wanted what was best for you in life. And, it doesn’t matter where they are right now.  Those special people are happy to know of the difference you feel they’ve made in your life.  Allow your light to reflect the likeness of those who have loved you into a more positive, natural state of being – the way you were always meant to be.  Shine ON!

If there’s one thing we like to be here at PoP, it’s HAPPY!  So today, we wanted to share 101 of our absolute favorite quotes on happiness.  Not only are we sharing our favorites, we’re putting a cherry on top with a special GIVEAWAY of “Everyday Positive Thoughts” by Louise Hay at the bottom of this post! So read through the quotes, pick your favorite, and enter to win!

1. 1. 1. “Happiness runs in a circular motion” – Donovan
      2. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Gandhi
      3. “Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.” – Zig Ziglar
      4. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
      5. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown
      6. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
      7. “If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.’
         If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
         If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
         If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb
      8. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
      9. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter
      10. “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about” – Dale Carnegie
      11. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
      12. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh
      13. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
      14. “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig
      15. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb
      16. “To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart
      17. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” – Seneca
      18. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
      19. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley
      20. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
      21. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” – Oscar Wilde
      22. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
      23. “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” – Anthony de Mello
      24. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
      25. “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 that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
      26. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
      27. “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” – Marcel Pagnol
      28. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
      29. “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
      30. “Happiness is acceptance.” – Unknown
      31. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie
      32. “We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.” – Dalai Lama
      33. “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Dr. Robert Anthony
      34. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” – Aesop
      35. “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” – Seneca
      36. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein
      37. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
      38. “Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle
      39. “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
      40. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
      41. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
      42. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller
      43. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
      44. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
      45. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
      46. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington
      47. “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer
      48. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – Heraclitus
      49. “Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse
      50. “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane
      51. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself; I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” – Groucho Marx
      52. “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” – Maxim Gorky
      53. “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” – Leo Tolstoy
      54. “If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.” – Epicurus
      55. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” – William Feather
      56. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” – Andy Rooney
      57. “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha
      58. “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – Andre Maurois
      59. “The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” – Brian Tracy
      60. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
      61. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
      62. “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” – Dalai Lama
      63. “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell
      64. “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” – Leo Tolstoy
      65. “I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington
      66. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
      67. “Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Unknown
      68. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller
      69. “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
      70. “Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” – Norman Vincent Peale
      71. “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” – Dale Carnegie
      72. “Happiness.  Not for another place, but this place.  Not for another hour, but this hour.” – Walt Whitman
      73. “Happiness is a habit.  Cultivate it.” – Elbert Hubbard
      74. “Rules for happiness: Do something, love someone, and always hold onto hope.” – Chris Butler
      75. “Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.” – Pharrell Williams
      76. “Remember happiness is a way of travel, not a destination” – Roy Goodman
      77. “Happiness does not depend on what you have, where you are, or who you are.  Happiness depends only upon your thoughts.” – Kristen Butler
      78. “Happiness adds and multiplies as we divide it with others.” – A. Nielsen
      79. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” – Jim Rohn
      80. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Aurelius, Marcus
      81. “I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.” – Richard Bach
      82. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Shweitzer
      83. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
      84. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
      85. “Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become presidents and they are not going to become rich. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.” – Osho
      86. “Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you can’t change. Kiss slowly, play hard, love deeply, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, and have no regrets. Life is too short to be anything but happy.” – Unknown
      87. “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” – Kurt Vonnegut
      88. “If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain.” – Unknown
      89. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus
      90. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” – Mark Twain
      91. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
      92. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
          “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert Heinlein
      93. “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig
      94. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
      95. Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
      96. “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” – Storm Jameson
      97. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
      98. “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” – Robert Muller
      99. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” – Barbara De Angelis
      100. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier
      101. “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

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