Like a million other times in my life, I do my best to escape into the pages of a book. I.
The amazing thing is that this is all perception. It’s all what you believe to be true. And you get to decide what you believe.
If you want to actually achieve your dreams, you can only pursue one at a time. I believe completely in going all in on one single dream, and when you achieve that one, then you can move on to the next. But splitting your attention is splitting your focus and your energy, which means you’re not likely to make much progress.
The dreams of your childhood aren’t easy to ignore or to leave behind. They’re the most powerful because you design them without boundaries or limits. It’s what makes growing up so hard, because even though life has shown you different, it’s hard to forget that there was a time when you believed anything was possible.
Two half people don’t make a whole. You’ve got to be completely whole on your own before you can be one half of anything.
Learning to rest is an ongoing process. Like any other lifelong behavior, I constantly fight the desire to slip back into the role I’ve played for so long.
You always feel behind and overwhelmed.
No, but I know how to make a Dr. Pepper cake,” I tell her confidently.
The person you lost would never, ever want you to suffer over their absence. If anything, they’d want you to experience the bittersweet memories of your time together. They’d want you to be happy, they’d want you to laugh again, they’d want you to live the fullest, richest life you can.
I am so sad for that little girl who didn’t know better. I am devastated that nobody prepared her for life or taught her to love herself so she wasn’t so desperate to get any form of it from someone else. I’m sad that she had to figure it out on her own. I’m disappointed that it took her so long.
I stopped comparing myself to other people, and I also stopped comparing myself to whomever I thought I was supposed to be.
How many times have you bailed on yourself to watch TV? How many times have you given up before you’ve even started? How many times have you made real progress, only to face a setback and then give up completely? How many times have your family or friends or coworkers watched you quit? How many times have your children watched you give up on yourself over and over and over? This is not okay.
Be the kind of woman who has so much love inside her that she won’t be tempted to change herself in order to get love from others.
That’s the incredible part about your dreams: nobody gets to tell you how big they can be.
Don’t fear your own weakness, fear drowning in despair for the rest of your time on earth because you were too afraid to confront your pain.
There is a big difference between wanting someone’s opinion and needing their approval. The latter typically comes disguised as the former. We ask for an opinion because we are feeling unsure about something, and often, if we can find someone to agree, we somehow justify the idea as good or bad.
You create because you have a God-given ability to do so. You create as a gift to yourself and to the higher power who blessed you with those abilities. But you can’t make people like or understand it. You have to be willing to put it out there even if they don’t like it. Even if they hate it. Even if they give it two stars or none at all.
Work just as hard for fun moments, vacation moments, and pee-your-pants-laughing moments as you do for all the other things.
Anything other than death is temporary.
Other people don’t get to tell you what you can have! Someone else doesn’t get to tell you who you can be! The world doesn’t get to decide what you get to try. You are the only one who can make that decision.