55 Quotes by Emily Maroutian

Don’t waste your energy trying to convince others of your worth. Those who see it don’t need to be convinced and those who don’t see it can’t be convinced.

Allow yourself to feel what you feel instead of getting mad at yourself for not feeling what you should feel. Think your thoughts instead of worrying about what you should be thinking. Claim your decisions, choices, desires, thoughts, and feelings. You are not yours until you allow all that you are right here, right now.

World peace begins with inner peace. Those who do not wage war within themselves do not wage war outside themselves.

One of the hardest and bravest things you will do is speak your truth when the voices around you demand agreement. They’ll judge you for it but you must speak anyway. They’ll criticize you; be yourself anyway. They’ll want you to change into something they can understand, something comfortable, easy to handle. Be yourself anyway.

Your power is not in yesterday or in tomorrow. It’s not over there somewhere waiting for you to reach it. It’s not hidden behind some goal or achievement. Your power is right here, right now. Your power is today. What will you do with today?

Life is less like a straight line and more like a pendulum. We swing back and forth between illness and health, joy and suffering, right and wrong, progression and regression. The secret to life is to accept this duality as a normal process and not to expect one side to be a permanent state. This is how we achieve balance.

No can mean: not right now, not through this person, not this way, not through here. It does not mean: never, no other way, you don’t deserve it, you’re unworthy, it’s not gonna happen.

When you give yourself permission to feel bad, you begin to feel good. When you allow yourself to feel fear, it begins to disappear. When you let yourself have your emotions, you begin to feel immediate relief from them.

Our life is not defined by what others do to us but how we respond to what others do to us. The power to influence the end result is within our actions and reactions.