sentences that have altered my perception
and my brain chemistry
You ever hear or read something that makes you walk around the block for a while? Taking deep breaths, nodding, like how has this never occurred to me before? In all the big and small ways, these are sentences that I wrote down in margins, on bills fished out of my tote bags, across pages of my journals.
The quotes that have stuck with me, and somehow found their way to me when I needed them the most. While some people see angel numbers everywhere, I catch the words screaming, waiting for me to find them.
Please feel free to leave some of your personal favourites in the comments, because we can never learn enough. I never wrote down any sources because they were either spoken to me, or left somewhere without one, or I’ve simply forgotten. I’m not even sure if any of them might be lyrics to a song. If you recognise them, let me know, because my urge to consume the wisdoms in their entirety is insatiable.
These have infiltrated my bubble, and changed my point of view.
It will be okay, but it will be different.
Everything is neutral until you give it meaning.
If you weren’t capable, you wouldn’t have the desire.
Your perception is your reality. You don’t see things as they are; you see things as you are.
The version of you that you dream of becoming is already within you–waiting for permission to exist.
Follow your plan, not your mood.
You’re not stuck; you are simply committed to a pattern that no longer serves you.
Most of the limits in your life were placed there by you.
No amount of regret is going to change your past, and no amount of overthinking is going to influence your future.
All this overthinking, and the outcomes are still the same.
What you’re not changing, you’re choosing.
What you allow is what will continue.
Don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm.
You can’t compete where you’re not considered.
Your life will be wonderful because you are wonderful. Your life will be full of love because you are full of love. You are not the absence of the things but the presence.
If you wouldn’t ask a snake why it bit you, why would you ask a person why they betrayed you?
Work hard in silence and let success be your noise.
Hurt people hurt people.
The best revenge is no revenge. Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting other people to die.
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Not everyone deserves a seat at the table of your peace.
It’s either going to be a good time or a good story. Do it all.
Was it fun or were you the fun?
If it doesn’t evolve you, don’t let it involve you.
Nostalgia is proof that you’re living a life to be proud of.
It’s everyone else’s first time living, too.
Every next level of your life will demand a different version of you.
If you’re the smartest person in the room, then you’re in the wrong room.
Sometimes saying No to someone else is saying Yes to you.
Stop losing your mind over people who don’t mind losing you.
No reason to stay is a good reason to go.
Your life stops being your own once you care what everyone else thinks. The day you stop seeking validation is the day you become truly free.
It’s better to admit that you walked through the wrong door rather than living the rest of your life in the wrong room.
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"If you weren’t capable, you wouldn’t have the desire"- this quote recently made its way into my awareness and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. And then now, I spotted it here. I feel like this is a sign! I've been feeling out of place recently and I have been intensely desiring the need to escape my reality. I'm constantly conjuring up a reality so vastly different from my present and it's frustrating that I can't reach it nor am I putting any actual effort to get there. Nevertheless this quote right here is making me think.....