Woman looking at the sunset while standing in a late summer field.

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Herman Hesse

I often write about finding lightness in life.

It can come from an unhurried but effective day at work or from uncluttering your home.

Or from learning how to let go and move on in life.

Learning to let go of a relationship, of something else in your past, of something that is just an unimportant distraction or of trying to control what you cannot control can free up huge amounts of the energy and the time you have to use for something better and more fulfilling.

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Sunset over a beautiful beach.

August has arrived.

With days that are still warm and sunny but also with a bittersweet end of summer in sight and autumn waiting around the corner.

So in today’s post I want to share 101 of the most beautiful, funny and inspirational August quotes.

To help you make the most of this last part of summer and as you’re going back to work or school.

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Today is the 4th of July (or it will be soon, depending on what day you read this).

It’s Independence Day in the US, the anniversary of the day in 1776 when the Founding Fathers signed The Declaration of Independence and established The United States as an independent nation, free from British rule.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most powerful, positive, funny and inspirational 4th of July quotes on freedom from people all across time and the world.

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Woman looking out of rainy window with a slight smile on her face.

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
Madame Marie du Deffand

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
Earl Nightingale

Maybe the most common issue people have with personal development and making a positive change is that it stays a daydream. That they get excited and inspired.

But then as those positive emotions fade nothing really happens.

Life continues as usual. Your health, finances or your relationship with yourself stays the same.

It’s very frustrating. I know.

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