We all have those days when we wake up feeling less than chipper for no particular reason … we just feel “blah.” Whenever I’m feeling this way, it can be helpful to read encouraging or uplifting words from others, especially those that focus on keeping a positive mindset or capture how I hope to live and/or view my life. To help me start the day on a positive note, I have a collection of quotes I turn to and read to myself time and time again.

1. “It is a serious thing, just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world.”

— Mary Oliver

2. “Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”

— Sydney Smith

3. “Wishing you a day of remaining in the moment. Not the past or future or story. Not your thoughts or anxieties or lists. But right here, right now, straight into the center.”

— Victoria Erickson

4. “I just don’t think I’m looking for the big moments in life anymore. It’s more the simple ones that make for a beautiful day now. Like the sun rising and the moon dancing and the wind singing and the leaves grooving, and kids laughing and music playing, butterflies twirling, heart-smiles staying … and me being present to witness all these little beautiful things. This is what makes for a happy and peaceful life, I’m sure.

— S.C. Lourie

5. “If you can’t run away to a cabin in the woods right now, start small. Make a cup of tea and find a sunset to watch. Turn off your phone and read a book in the bath. Go for a drive and blast some Stevie Nicks. Fight for moments of peace in the midst of the crazy. You can do that.”

— Brooke Hampton

6. “Do you get it now? This is your life. Not only your weekends, not only your vacation in three months, not only that big milestone you’ve been waiting for. This is it. Start fully living in the moment and giving meaning to the ‘mundane.’ This is your greatest adventure after all.”

— Meditate and Love

7. “Some days, doing ‘the best we can’ may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn’t perfect on any front — and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.”

— Mister Rogers

8. “Decide what kind of life you actually want. And then say no to everything that isn’t that.”

— Melanie Mackle

9. “Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.”

— Thomas Merton

10 “Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”

— C. Assad

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The days are getting shorter and there’s a slight chill in the air … can you feel it? Fall is just around the corner. It is a season that is romanticized by many and one we all look forward to — for very good reasons. It is a season of transformation … when the weather shifts and paints the world in stunning hues of crimson and gold.

The arrival of fall means ushering in the cozy season with nights spent by the fireplace chatting and laughing with loved ones and days filled with simple yet charming activities like apple picking and visits to the pumpkin patch. As the world basks in a golden glow, our days can’t help but feel a little more magical. Is it any wonder we all happily anticipate this season and welcome it with open arms?

Quotes to Get You Excited for Fall’s Arrival

1. “Autumn is a place where words fall short. It is a magic that must be felt, breathed, experienced, and treasured.”
   — Laura Jaworski
2. “October, here’s to you. Here’s to the heady aroma of the frost-kissed apples, the winey smell of ripened grapes, the wild-as-the-wind smell of hickory nuts, and the nostalgic whiff of that first wood smoke.”
   — Ken Weber
3. “If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
   — Victoria Erickson
4. “Autumn is a vintage soul. She colors each leaf with wisdom’s gold.”
   — Angie Welland-Crosby
5. “I believe in the power of a fiery autumn to dazzle my senses and fill my soul with enough brilliant beauty to last me through the grays and whites of the chilly winter days that lie ahead.”
   — Ginny Yurich
6. “It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
   — Sarah Addison Allen
7. “For as long as she could remember, she had thought that autumn air went well with books, that the two both somehow belonged with blankets, comfortable armchairs, and big cups of coffee or tea.”
   — Katarina Bivald
8. “Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
   — Nora Ephron
9. “That old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air … Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
   — Wallace Stegner
10. “Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter’s deadness; harvest; orange, gold, amber; cool nights and the smell of fire. Our tree-lined streets are set ablaze, our kitchens filled with the smells of nostalgia: apples bubbling into sauce, roasting squash, cinnamon, nutmeg, cider, warmth itself. The leaves as they spark into wild color just before they die are the world’s oldest performance art, and everything we see is celebrating one last violently hued hurrah before the black and white silence of winter.”
    — Shauna Niequist
11. “I am such an autumn person. Give me a quiet, cozy spot with a simple view of gorgeous trees with colorful leaves on a crisp September day, fuzzy socks, a warm drink, and a good book, and I will be in all my glory.”
    — McKenna Kaelin
12. “Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
    — Lauren DeStefano
13. “Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.”
    — Mehmet Murat Ildan
14. “There is something so special in the early leaves drifting from the trees – as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”
    — Ruth Ahmed
15. “When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
    — VV Brown

Discover delightful ways to welcome autumn in Bella Grace Issue 41.

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As the calendar approaches June, you can begin to feel summer’s arrival in the air. The long days are filled with sunshine that seems to linger in the evening. There is a sense of anticipation as people early count down to the joys this time of year brings with it — from lazy afternoons spent lounging by the shimmering waters to balmy evenings under the starlit sky. Here are some of our favorite quotes that always get us excited for summer.

Quotes That Make You Excited for Summer

1. “This strangely still pause between summer and autumn, greenery and gold, and the heat and rising wind that is once again readying itself to rush it all away in a climactic symphony of color and scent is, in my opinion, one of the best parts about living on Earth.”
— Victoria Erickson

2. “Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
— Henry James

3. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
— Jenny Han

4. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”
— L.M. Montgomery

5. “Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”
— Regina Brett

6. “Every summer, like the roses, childhood returns.”
— Marty Rubin

7. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.”
— Charles Bowden

9. “Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. For those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. You can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. Summer just opens the door and lets you out.”
— Deb Caletti

10. “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
— John Lubbock

11. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.”
— Jeanette Walls

12. “Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.”
— Oprah Winfrey

13. “Then followed that beautiful season … summer … filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

14. “Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
— Hosea Ballou

15. “In the tapestry of seasons, summer weaves the threads of joy and adventure.”
— Luna Brightwater

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Whether you are a resolution maker or not, no one can deny the excitement of a new year and all the possibilities that come with it. It offers us a chance to turn the page on the previous year and start anew with a blank slate. As we leave 2023 behind and step into 2024 with a commitment to make this year better than the last, may we use the following quotes about new beginnings to guide us along the way.

1. “And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke

2. “I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.

So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is.

Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it.

Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

— Neil Gaiman

3. “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

4. “Midnight on New Year’s Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present.”

— Hillary DePiano

5. “I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

— Thomas Jefferson

6. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

— C.S. Lewis

7. “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”

— Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Photo by Maja Topcagic | Bella Grace Issue 30

8. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake.”

— Francis Bacon Sr.

9. “I close my eyes to old ends. And open my heart to new beginnings.”

— Nick Frederickson

10. “Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.”

— Michael Jacobson

11. “Celebrate what you want to see more of.”

— Tom Peters

12. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”

— Robin Sharma

13. “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

— Carl Bard

14. “And suddenly you know: It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”

— Meister Eckhart

15. “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”

— Dale Turner

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Do you share our love of shimmering stars and boundless night skies? If so, you’ve come to the right place! Today, we’re treating you to free summer wallpapers featuring star-filled night skies and inspirational quotes from the pages of our magazines, Bella Grace and Field Guide to Everyday Magic. They’re certain to give you a boost of happiness each time you power on your computer.

You don’t need to wait until the day’s over to see the most beautiful interplays of light and darkness. Download your favorite image to bring one of these starlit night skies to life on your screen, and come back when you’re ready to switch it up! We hope you enjoy this little gift of ours.

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“She was drawn to things that grow in the dark: stars, and moonbeams, and her soul’s wild backyard.”

Words by Angie Weiland-Crosby and Photo by Michael Shainblum | Bella Grace Issue 35

Orphic [or – fik] (adj.) mysterious and entrancing beyond ordinary understanding.

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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

Words by Sarah Williams | Bella Grace Issue 36

“There are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.”

Words by Mark Nepo and Photo by Akela | Bella Grace Issue 19

Not only has the starlit sky long served as a profound source of inspiration, but it’s also a catalyst for exploring human emotions, existential questions, and the boundless depths of the human spirit. Images of such starry night sky have been in multiple issues of Bella Grace, alongside Field Guide To Everyday Magic, as it beckons the creative spirit.

“I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

Words by Vincent van Gogh and Photo by Javier Pardina | Bella Grace Issue 17

“I want to get into my car and drive until I find what I’m looking for. Maybe it’s purpose or maybe it’s a new start, or maybe it’s just a sky with unclouded stars.”

Words by R.I.D and Photo by Evan Dalen | Field Guide To Everyday Magic Issue 5

“The world only exists in your eyes — your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to.”

Words by F. Scott Fitzgerald | Field Guide To Everyday Magic Issue 4

“I’m not very good at making specific plans. Just meet me under the sky somewhere and be alive with me.”

Words by Victoria Erickson and Photo by Cactus Blai Baules | Field Guide To Everyday Magic Issue 2

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Whether life has thrown you a curve ball, or you just need some gentle words of encouragement, here are 12 of our favorite inspirational quotes about strength and encouragement from the pages of Bella Grace magazine.

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1. “And then it happens … one day you wake up and you’re in this place. You’re in this place where everything feels right. Your heart is calm. Your soul is lit. Your thoughts are positive. Your vision is clear. You’re at peace, at peace with where you’ve been, at peace with what you’ve been through, and at peace at where you’re headed.” — Unknown

   From Bella Grace Issue 28

2. “You can recover from loss, from heartache, from anything that squeezes your soul with iron fists. Find the softer things. Things like plants and sweet people and slow-burning candles and long walks and moving water. Wrap them around you. Repeat as necessary.” — Victoria Erickson

   From Bella Grace Issue 26

3. “One day it will be so clear — what you thought was the end, was really just the beginning. Some doors are hidden until we are ready to open them.” — CW Poet

   From Bella Grace Issue 30

4. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.”— Cynthia Occelli

   From Bella Grace Issue 28

5. 

   “I’ve lost a lot of battles against myself. So I’m laying down my weapons, tending to the wounded, and letting compassion end the war.” — Stacie Martin

   From Bella Grace Issue 32

6. “Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.” — Brené Brown

   From Bella Grace Issue 34

7. “The world is going to break you, there’s no doubt about that. So instead of dodging it, for fear of what you may find in the pieces, run straight into the eye of your own storm. There’s a new you waiting to be built from the pieces of the old you. Spoiler alert: it’s a masterpiece.” — Stephanie Bennett-Henry

   From Bella Grace Issue 29

8. “Even now, as broken as you may feel, you are still so strong. There’s something to be said for how you hold yourself together and keep moving, even though you feel like shattering. Don’t stop. This is your healing. It doesn’t have to be pretty, or graceful. You just have to keep going.” — Maxwell Diawuoh

   From Bella Grace Issue 34

9. 

   “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving

   From Bella Grace Issue 33

10. “She has moments of weakness where she starts to believe she needs someone to save her. But then she smiles when she remembers that she is the heroine in her story.” — JM Storm

    From Bella Grace Issue 30

11. “If anyone is magically going to appear and just suddenly make your life better, just know that person is always going to be you.” — Brianna Pastor

    From Bella Grace Issue 31

12. “Hold company with yourself so sacred that even when you are alone, you are whole.” — AVA

    From Bella Grace Issue 33

Tell us, what are some of your favorite words of strength and encouragement?

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What a delightful time of year summer is! Between picnics and beach days, reading lists and movie nights, there are countless special ways to celebrate the season. These are a few of our favorite quotes that remind us of the magic we can always expect summertime to bring.

Inspiring Quotes That Celebrate Summer

1. “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” — Henry James
3. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” — Maud Hart Lovelace
4. “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” — Charles Bowden
5. “One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” — Jeannette Walls
6. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” — Jenny Han
7. “All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything can come in this world.” — L.M. Montgomery
8. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” — Kellie Elmore
9. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” — Wallace Stevens
10. ” Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.” — John Lubbock

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One of life’s biggest challenges can be starting over, especially when we feel it is too late to do so. If you’re finding it difficult to create a new beginning, we’ve put together a collection of quotations that just may give you the inspiration you need!

10 Quotes That Remind Us It’s Never Too Late to Start Over

1. “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
2. “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” – C. JoyBell C.
4. “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” – Barbara Shur
5. “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dale Turner
6. “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue
7. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ― Germany Kent
8. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” ― Josiyah Martin
9. “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer
10. “Rock bottom is the end of what wasn’t true enough. Begin again and build something truer.” – Glennon Doyle

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On the way back to the orphanage after learning Green Gables was not to be her home, a heartbroken Anne Shirley declared, “I’ve made up my mind to enjoy this drive. It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly … Oh, look, there’s one little early wild rose out! Isn’t it lovely? Don’t you think it must be glad to be a rose?” In moments of particular hardship, I often picture Anne, well aware of her ill fate, yet determined to celebrate the beauty surrounding her. 

There’s another little girl I think of too. Her name is Sara Crewe and among the pages of “A Little Princess,” her optimistic spirit has touched millions of readers all around the world. Banished and without a cent to her name, she reminded us, “Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.” 

The only certainty regarding unforeseen circumstance is that it is likely to meet us throughout our lives. However, navigating these twists in the road is made easier with the turn of a page — with a peek inside the stories of courageous, resilient heroines.  When the midnight stars were at their dimmest, they sought out magic and where they did not find it, they created their own. In their own words, these are pieces of inspiration we can carry in our hearts when experiencing our own versions of Anne’s carriage ride to the orphanage or Sara’s nights in the attic. These are life lessons from a literary heroine.

Life Lessons From Some of Our Favorite Literary Heroines

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Amy March, “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott 

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of  sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it’s perils.” – Jane Eyre, “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Brontë 

“Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have  loved, to have thought, to have done, to have advanced true friends? It isn’t.” – Juliet  Ashton, “The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society” by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie  Barrows

“I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.” – Elinor Dashwood, “Sense and Sensibility” by Jane Austen 

“I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones  after all.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder 

“I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.” – Sara Stanley, “The Story Girl” by L.M. Montgomery 

“And most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you  keep hunting long enough to find it.” – Pollyanna, “Pollyanna” by Eleanor H. Porter 

“The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in  return — that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.” – Cassandra Mortmain, “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith 

“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let  me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” – Francie Nolan, “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

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Autumn is the time of year for homemade pumpkin bread, copious amounts of tea, and curling up with a beloved classic tale. One of our favorite novels to read during cozy season is, “Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott. Her words seem to provide a certain sense of comfort. Scroll below for a collection of favorite Louisa May Alcott quotes that will add a dash of inspiration to each day!

12 Louisa May Alcott Quotes for Daily Inspiration

1. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

2. “Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

3. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

4. “I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”

5. “Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”

6. “Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.”

“Life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”

7. “It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

8. “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”

“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”

9. “Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.”

10. “Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.”

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