34 Feel Good Quotes that Will Instantly Brighten Your Mood

Life is like a wave; sometimes we feel up and happy and some other times we feel down and sad. The important thing to remember is that we should not let the sad times overwhelm us and rob us of our positive energy.

The down times are for self reflection. These are the times when you need to sit back and reflect on things and thereby help change the course of your life for the better.

Here are 26 feel good quotes to help you during these down times. Just reading these quotes will rejuvenate your mind and body and help you focus on the positive instead of dwelling on the negative.

1. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift; that’s why it’s called The Present.

– Bil Keane

This is a beautiful quote taken from the movie, KungFu Panda (Originally said by Bil Keane) told by Master Oogway, to Po.

This quote highlights the importance of living in and appreciating the present moment and the power that lies right here, right now.

Instead of dwelling in the past or worrying about the future, bring your mind to the present moment and try feeling and experiencing it fully.

2. Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

– Rumi

The easiest way to feel good instantly is to let go of your thoughts. Mind is a machine that constantly churns out thoughts and when we are not conscious, our attention is completely lost in these thoughts. True freedom ensues when you become conscious of these thoughts and stop giving them your unconscious attention.

Want more Rumi quotes? Here’s a list we compiled of the most beautiful and profound Rumi quotes on life.

3. Take a deep breath. Inhale peace, exhale happiness.

– A.D. Posey

A simple yet profound quote that helps anchor your mind to the present moment, for in the present moment lies happiness. Become conscious of your breathing and as you inhale, feel the life energy entering you and filling your entire being with peace and as you exhale, feel happiness emanating from you.

4. Just when the caterpillar thought its world was over, it became a butterfly.

In life there can be moments when we feel that everything is lost and there is no way out. This is exactly the feeling a caterpillar presumably must be having when it is undergoing such massive transformation.

It feels that the days of happily crawling around and munching all day are over. Only to realize soon after that it now has wings to fly around.

The hardships in our life help us grow and help us get in touch with amazing abilities that we never knew we had.

5. The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

This quote highlights the importance of seeing the good even in situations that the mind perceives as bad.

Every situation in life has value and there is always something that we can learn from it. So instead of cursing a negative situation, try to focus on what it has to offer in terms of your personal growth.

Also Read: The The darkest nights produce the brightest stars.

6. You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim.

Many a times in life we end up complaining about a negative situation. We feel like a victim.

This quote explains to us that sometimes when the external circumstances are hard we need to become stronger from within.

Aspire towards using the situation to grow from within and move towards becoming a stronger version of yourself so your can tackle the situation and come out a winner.

7. Life is the dancer and you are the dance.

– Eckhart Tolle

This is a rather light-hearted quote from Eckhart Tolle wherein he highlights how intricately we all are connected with life. In-fact there is no separation between life and you. This is a very powerful quote if you understand the true meaning behind it.

8. Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.

– Oprah

Many times we forget what we have and feel saddened by things that we don’t possess.

This generates a feeling of lack within us which further clouds our ability to work towards achieving our true desires. Instead, if we feel gratitude for the things we already have, we get in tune with positive energy which will in-turn help attract positive things into our life. This is also how the law of attraction works.

9. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, others build windmills.

Beautiful quote that tells you that just by changing your focus, you can find the blessing hidden in every situation. Your mind generally tends to focus on the negative aspects of a situation, but when we consciously change our focus we start to see the hidden positives.

Also Read: 18 Relaxing Quotes To Help You Destress

10. Think positive, feel positive and positive things will happen.

This quote is in line with the law of attraction which states that we attract things into our life, based on how we are feeling deep inside. Or in other words, we attract our vibration.

If we make it a habit to think positive and thereby feel positive, we will automatically start attracting positive things into our life.

11. When you are at peace, you attract positive energy.

When the mind is agitated, it just cannot think clearly. The solutions just do not come and more often than not we end up making many more errors before finally resolving a situation.

The best thing to do in such a situation is to relax your mind and body and bring within a feeling of inner peace. When there is peace within, you will automatically attract positive things into your life.

Also Read: 11 Things You Can Do Today To Attract Positive Energy

12. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

– The Little Prince

This beautiful quote from, ‘The Little Prince’, carries with it a profound message. There are many things in this world that are beyond our comprehension. These things cannot be understood in a mechanical way, they can only be felt.

13. Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

– The Little Prince

We are told that procrastination is bad, but history reveals that some of the most successful individuals were all chronic procrastinators. This suggests that there are no hard and fast rules in life and that the only thing that is important is – balance. And sometimes to bring balance into your life, you need to let go and relax.

14. Beauty is everywhere. You only have to look to see it.

– Bob Ross

Bob Ross had a way of making you feel good, not only by way of his paintings, but also by the wise words he uttered and this quote by him is one such example. This quote gives the message that everything is a matter of perspective and you can find joy and beauty everywhere by simply changing the way you look at things.

15. The world is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

– W.B. Yeats

If you think about it, everything around you is magical. The Sun which burns incessantly and all the planets that revolve around it, the milky way with millions of stars, the infinite universe and all that is in it, huge trees that grow from a tiny seed, your body that performs millions of complex tasks every single second, the list just goes on and on. Take a minute to ponder about this magical world you live in.

16. There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

Just for a moment, divert your attention within your body and you will be amazed at all the processes that are happening within without your minutest intervention.

Your heart is beating on its own, cleansing and pumping life energy to all parts of your body. Your lungs are drawing oxygen from the air and infusing it within your blood, your mind is constantly processing external information, over 37 trillion cells in your body are working on their own, doing their thing to keep your body functioning.

This and millions of other processes are happening in your body right at this moment. There is indeed an entire universe within you. Take a moment to become present and give you loving attention to your body.

17. You can’t focus on what’s going wrong, there’s always a way to turn things around.

– Joy (Inside Out)

Where you focus your attention is extremely important, cause, where your focus goes, energy flows. When you remove focus from the negative aspects of a given situation and refocus on the positive aspects, things begin to change in your favor.

18. Sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

– Rumi

When you spend time worrying about what other people think of you, you are essentially wasting your precious energy. Eventually, you are bound to stop feeling good when all your focus is on others. As discussed in the previous quote, where your attention goes, energy flows.

The best way to free yourself and feel good is to remove your attention from such limiting thoughts and refocus it on your goals. Do you thing and do not worry what others think. That is the ultimate liberation.

19. Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.

– A.D. Posey

Everything is a matter of perspective. When you look at life as something vibrant and colorful, you automatically tune into a higher frequency. You start to feel good and connect with positivity and hence attract more positivity into your life.

20. See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see – out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!

– Patch Adams

See the world with an open mind and you will find magical aspects even in the most simplest of things.

Your mind becomes closed when you are lost in your beliefs. Your beliefs act as a filter using which you perceive reality. For instant, when you wear red glasses, everything appears red. Discard the glasses and you see an entirely different picture that was previously hidden from you.

The easiest way to open your mind is to become conscious of your thoughts and the resultant beliefs that are ingrained in your subconscious. Practice being in the present moment and you will see .

21. 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

Just like a fish is one with the ocean you are one with this universe. You are connected with the sun, moon, earth and all the planets and stars. And in that sense, you are powerful beyond measure.

22. Do not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.

– Gusteau (Ratatouille)

No one can know your true strength and value except you. So do not base your value on someone else’s thoughts or opinion.

Each day, learn more about yourself by practicing self awareness. Become conscious of your thoughts and beliefs, discard beliefs that you think are limiting and negative and foster ones that are empowering.

Find out what you truly desire, where your real strengths and weaknesses lie and create a life that you desire by harnessing your core strengths. If you do that, your potential will be limitless.

23. Shine like the whole universe is yours.

-Rumi

The stars are shining for you, the sun is burning for you, the air is filled with life energy for you, the birds are singing for you, the flowers are in bloom for you, everything in this universe is working for you. They are all yours!

Change your perspective to one of abundance by looking at the universe in this way, and you are bound to attract abundance into your life.

24. Never give up and good luck will find you.

Good luck is all about your focus. When you are focused on your work instead of focusing on negativity, you are bound to attract success.

Also Read: 11 habits to attract good luck into your life.

25. Tension is who you think you are, relaxation is who you are.

– Lao Tzu

Your mind is a survival machine and hence it naturally thinks paranoid thoughts that stress you out. But once you become conscious of your thoughts, you can let them go and begin to relax. The relaxed state is the creative state. This is the state when you feel good, this is the state of healing, this is the state in which ideas come to you, this is the state when you connect to higher energy and realize your true potential.

Also Read: 18 relaxing quotes to help you destress (with beautiful images).

26. Nature does not hurry, yet everything gets accomplished.

– Lao Tzu

The mind always comes up with the idea that time is not enough and everything is getting out of hand. A simple way to let go of this fear is to look at nature. Nature never hurries but everything is accomplished at the right time. So use nature as a pointer to relax, feel good and remove the energy of haste and worries from your mind.

27. Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

– Welwyn Wilton Katz

Every once in a while, come out of your conditioned mind, reignite your sense of wonder and you will realize that we live in a magical world.

28. You don’t need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too.

– Joan Bauer

29. When we feel good about the choices we’re making and when we’re engaging with the world from a place of worthiness rather than scarcity, we feel no need to judge and attack.

– Brené Brown

30. 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 do wish to create.

– Alaric Hutchinson

31. At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person.

– Fred Rogers

32. You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There’s never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.