“You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are.” – pg. xi
“If you’re unhappy, that’s on you.” – pg. 5
“Moving doesn’t change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window.” – pg. 7
“When you really want something, you will find a way. When you don’t really want something, you’ll find an excuse.” – pg. 14
“In fact, the stones we most often try and fling at others are the ones that have been thrown at us.” – pg. 35
“The issue wasn’t that I didn’t know who I was; the problem was that I didn’t know who I had allowed myself to become.” – pg. 51
“Very few roads to love are easy to navigate.” – pg. 52
“Sometimes choosing to walk away, even if it means breaking your own heart, can be the greatest act of self-love you have access to.” – pg. 53
“That’s the incredible part about your dreams: nobody gets to tell you how big they can be.” – pg. 58
“That is what it boils down to: faith. The belief that your life will unfold as it was meant to, even when it unfolds into something painful and difficult to navigate.” – pg. 108
“You’ve already done little things and big things… Goals you accomplished years ago that are on someone else’s bucket list. Focus on what you have done. […] When you force yourself to admit all the things you have accomplished, you’ll realize that it’s wrong to be so hard on yourself for all the things you haven’t.” – pg. 110
“If we choose to stay underwater without kicking our way to the surface, we eventually forget how to swim.” – pg. 117
“There are hundreds of ways to lose yourself, but the easiest of them is refusing to acknowledge who you truly are in the first place. You – the real you – is not an accident.” – pg. 132
“Calling your shot is powerful when you’re chasing down a dream, but it’s also not enough. You have to spend real time focusing on everything you can about that dream. What does it look like? What does it feel like? How much detail can you imagine? How real can you make it in your own mind?” – pg. 139
“When you’re creating something from your heart, you do it because you can’t not do it.” – pg. 147
“I will not let a nightmare have more power than my dreams.” – pg. 155
“Someday I’ll hold my daughter in my arms and I’ll understand why I waited for her.” – pg. 172
“You’ve got a lifetime of negative talk in your head playing on repeat. You need to replace that voice with something positive. […] So come up with a mantra and say it to yourself a thousand times a day until it becomes real.” – pg. 185
“I heard once that every author has a theme.” – pg. 211
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