These are my favorite lines from the self-development books that I have read. These are my highlights – the lines I will live by. I may no longer find the time to read the books again but I will definitely reread these highlighted lines to guide me. Click here to get a copy of the book.
125 Quick Inspirational Lines from 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think by Brianna Wiest
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- You will be grateful for what you struggle with once you get to the other side.
- Change is in building what’s next, not in dismantling what was. The ultimate path to happiness is non-attachment.
- Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
- A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.
- Their emotions aren’t “somebody else’s doing,” and therefore “somebody else’s problem to resolve.”
- If you genuinely disliked something, you would simply disengage with it.
- Suffering is just the refusal to accept what is.
- You’re learning, and evolving, and can identify the ways in which you’ve changed for better and worse.
- Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands.
- When things go beyond that limit, we sabotage ourselves so we can return to our comfort zones.
- Most prefer the comfort of what they’ve known to the vulnerability of what they don’t.
- You can have an incredible life and mourn wildly when it’s over, but at least there was a means to that end.
- Seek what’s positive, and you’ll find that your threshold for feeling it expands as you decide it can.
- You will never be ready for the things that matter.
- Anxiety builds in our idle hours. Fear and resistance thrive when we’re avoiding the work.
- You cannot save up your happiness; you can either feel it in the moment, or you miss it.
- Meeting your own needs is the first step, not the ultimate goal.
- You do owe something to the adult you are today.
- Hunger is important. Complete fulfillment is the fast track to complacency. In fearing that happiness won’t last forever, we lose it
- Social media is actually making us more emotionally disconnected.
- “The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
- Make time for the friends you have more than you seek out the ones you don’t.
- Just write down one sentence that sums up the day before bed. In a year, you’ll be grateful you did.
- Go through your belongings and only keep what’s purposeful or beautiful to you
- Call your mom. Not everybody has the privilege.
- Rather than chasing “success,” chase kindness.
- Do the most important things immediately in the morning.
- Shed what no longer serves you.
- Do not make decisions when you’re upset.
- Take inventory of all the things you’ve thought and worried about that have turned out not to be real.
- Make sure you’re living more than you’re thinking about living.
- Identify your comfort zones, and step back into them now and again.
- Do not live in the grey area when answers are available.
- You need to open yourself. If you don’t, you’ll be stuck in the cocoon phase forever.
- If you’re uncomfortable, you’re being pushed to think beyond what you’ve known.
- Learn to see each day from the perspective of your older self.
- Let your choices be guided by the person you hope to become.
- Connect with people.
- Create vision boards. Seeing the life you want is the first step to creating it.
- You’ll regret what you didn’t do, not what you’ve done.
- You get better, not perfect.
- The more you accept other people, the more you’ll accept yourself.
- Ask for help when you actually need help.
- Fear is an indicator that something is powerful and worthwhile.
- Learn how to relax. Work on learning how to happily do nothing.
- Believe that everything is here to help us.
- If we want to find peace, we need to know there’s a purpose for suffering.
- People’s opinions of you are largely projections of how they see themselves
- Many people write well. Few people write well and consistently.
- Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story.
- It’s just a matter of having the (often uncomfortable) commitment to keep growing.
- “Safety” isn’t in certainty – but in faith that you can simply keep going.
- “Enjoy what you do each day, no matter what you’re doing”
- People who never get anything done wait to feel inspired.
- Take photos to remember happy moments, not prove that you looked good or did something cool.
- Just take a photo of whatever’s in front of you (however unworthy of Instagram it is)
- The only way you grow is by stepping into the unknown.
- Life isn’t about being “certain,” it’s about trying anyway.
- You hold yourself accountable for your own happiness.
- What you learn and who you become is more important than how you temporarily feel.
- You have every right to rage and rant and hate every iota of someone’s being, but you also have the right to choose to be at peace.
- The “good: teaches you well, but the “bad” teaches you better,
- Ask yourself what you most feel you are lacking, then look at how little you’re giving them.
- People who waste their lives search for reasons to love rather than ways to love.
- Screens > people is basically the best way to create an extremely anxious lifestyle for yourself.
- Life is small and simple and more than enough
- You’re always busy, yet never productive enough..
- It’s about which of your (often conflicting) desires you let win.
- The one true sign that you’re moving ahead with your life is that you don’t know where you’re going.
- The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself
- It’s doing, not thinking about doing, that creates a life well lived.
- “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” C.G. Jung
- You ultimately are defined not by what you do, but how you do it.
- Figure out what you crave, and figure out how to feed that need yourself.
- Figure out what you most need to heal within yourself by seeing what you most want to change in others.
- Everything is hard, ut you choose your hard. You choose what’s worth it.
- You choose what you think about.
- It’s all about growth at the end of the day.
- It’s not about how much you get right, it’s how much you get better
- “The only wait to fail is to abstain” – Johanna de Silento
- A good life is not how it adds up in the end but what you’re counting along the way
- If it’s in your life, there’s something to be learned from it
- The foundation of a happy relationship (and life, really) is unconditional kindness.
- Whatever you feel you are not receiving is a direct reflection of what you are not giving.
- Give exactly what you want to get.
- If you want to be understood, explain.
- If you want to be happy, choose it.
- Choose change. Never sit and fester in frustration.
- If something can be solved, solve it. If it cannot, worrying and fretting will not suddenly change that.
- You can choose who you are every day and it doesn’t have to be the same person you were yesterday.
- You don’t remember years, you remember moments.
- Growth means being able to experience and see more because you are aware of it.
- “You haven’t failed until you’ve stopped trying.”
- I can support myself, and I don’t have to answer or please anybody else.
- I am always one choice away from changing everything.
- Give love and do what you most genuinely want to.
- For how many more years are you going to let your demons conquer you?
- Learn to live your life more than you’re inclined to sit around wondering about it.
- Rather than work toward an end goal, work toward liking the process of getting there.
- If you’re looking for an excure as to why it’s not the right time, you’ll always fin one.
- Everybody can have a job they love if they work hard enough.
- Acceptance is the root of abundance.
- Living to work as opposed to working to live is not a quality of life.
- You’re allowed to be great at a lot of things that don’t necessarily relate to one another.
- You do not have to be a novel; you can be a book of stories.
- It’s a matter of how you connect, not who you have around
- You should say no when you want to say no
- You should rise and say, “This is who I am, even if you’ll crucify me for it”
- The happier you are with what you do, the less you need other people to support you
- You don’t “have” to, you “get” to
- Every one of your actions fees something within you
- Learn to keep your needs simple and your wants small
- You don’t need to know what you’re doing to still do something extraordinary
- Focus instead on what you want to do with each and every day of your existence
- Not oen word anhbody says is more powerful or true than how you behave and ho you really are
- Your life exists in its days. Not in your ideas about those days.
- The opposite of pain isn’t joy – it’s acceptance.
- You are only as alone as you think you are.
- You cannot squeeze someone into your brokenness and expect that to make you whole.
- You have to stop believing that you need other people’s permission to be okay with yourself.
- People will love you more for loving yourself
- How often you make time to do the things you want, not the things that are expected of you
- That you donate the things you don’t need to the people who dod need them
- Realize that your minds capacity is limitless if you so choose to pursue it
- The ultimate path to happiness is non-attachment
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What’s your favorite line so far?
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A voluble list if I may say so myself. I enjoyed browsing through this, and found #124 to be my favourite. The mind really is a miraculous thing, one that we all have no idea how to fully utilise. Anyway, thanks for this post!
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Thanks Stuart! Just checked #124 again, yeah that’s a great one! We need that reminder from time to time 🙂
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