“You owe nothing to your younger self. You are not responsible for the person you once thought you'd be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Everybody has a limited tolerance for feeling good. When things go beyond that limit, we sabotage ourselves so that we can return to our comfort zones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The pattern of unnecessarily creating crises in your life is actually an avoidance technique. It distracts you from actually having to be vulnerable or held accountable for whatever it is you're afraid of. You're never upset for the reason you think you are. At the core of your desire to create a pr…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Not wanting to do something would make you feel indifferent about it. Fear = interest.”— Brianna Wiest, imdb.com
“If we know exactly where we’re going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we’ll see along the way, we won’t learn anything.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“An argument for consciousness, the instinct of the blind insect, who makes love to the flower bed and dies in the first freeze.”— Bright Eyes, play.spotify.com
“Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained to us, that we were in fact in the pro…”— Alice Walker, amazon.com
“Sometimes what's left behind can grow back better than the generation before.”— Matthew Broderick, Simba, amazon.com
“At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life.”— Jillian Michaels, amazon.com
“It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.”— Jillian Michaels, books.google.com
“There’s nothing more detrimental to our success than ourselves. We get in the way of our potential and growth by being complacent and settling for things that don’t make us happy.”— Gloria Atanmo, gumroad.com
“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com