Ready to Use Quotes by Julie Donley RN

“You are the most important person in your life. Without you, what do you have?”

“Time is more precious than gold. It cannot be bought or saved. And although many people try, you cannot rush through time to get more of it; you just lose it faster.”

“Do unto yourself as you would do unto others.”

“You cannot hold onto anger and practice self-love. It doesn’t work.”

“Living in the past makes the present go away.”

“You cannot look at someone’s exterior and know what is going on inside.”

“You can succeed at survival, but is survival success?”

“You teach others how you want to be treated by how you treat yourself.”

“We cannot separate our external reality from our internal reality and expect to live excellent lives.”

“There is no path to joy when living in fear.”

“Happiness is an inside job.”

“Small steps produce big results.”

“To have your life look good but not feel good is not living; it’s existing. That’s not success and in your heart, you know it. To not honor yourself, to choose not to do what you know is right for you, is a crime against yourself.”

“Thinking creates actions which bring about results. Actions are the bridge from your inner world to the outer world. If you want to change your outer world, start by changing your inner world.”

“When you choose to speak about yourself negatively, you are communicating to others how you feel about yourself. It says a lot about how you treat yourself and how you want others to treat you. If you do it to yourself, you open the door to allow others to speak negatively to you and about you.”

“Use mistakes as opportunities to learn and to grow. They bring your attention to things you didn’t know you need to know.”

“You cannot find what you are looking for in something outside of you. You cannot buy enough stuff to make you happy; there will always be a longing for something more.”

“Blame is the art of seeking external forces to shoulder the responsibility for the things that occur in your life.”

“Self-pity has no value. Things happen to all of us. We each have a story to tell. Each of us must experience our share of loss and pain; it’s part of our human experience. We mustn’t be attached to any of it. You must learn to deal with hardship and unpleasant feelings, as well as joy and pleasant feelings.”

“Busy” is a societal game. Learn to slow down and you’ll be able to enjoy life, rather than just “get it done.”

“Many people fail to make the shift to seeking approval from themselves and continue to seek approval from some external source – in peers, in bosses, in a spouse, or still from their parents. You cannot find the key to your happiness or success in the eyes and mind of another.”

“When you learn to honor yourself, you honor others. When you focus your energies on self-respect, self-love, and making choices that honor you, you naturally treat others with that same level of respect. To do otherwise would be disrespectful to you. And if you are disrespectful to you, you cannot truly respect others.”

“Learning to honor yourself starts with gaining control over your most important ally – your mind.”

“Your life is a reflection of what you value most.”

“Be careful what you feed your mind.”

“You can succeed at survival, but is survival success?”

“The quality of your life is directly proportional to how you choose to spend your time. You can invest in yourself – or not. You can enjoy your time – or not. You can live with regrets or choose forgiveness and make the most of every moment. The choice is yours.”

“Denial is the inability or unwillingness to deal with or talk about your feelings or the situation. By looking the other way, you hope the problem will go away on its own. By refusing to confront the situation head on, you actually permit the situation to have power over you. As long as you continue to deny it, you remain imprisoned by it.”

“There’s a difference between who you think you are, who you are capable of becoming, and who others think you are. The process of becoming who you really are – your authentic self – will naturally close the gap.”

“When you have no destination in mind, any road will get you there.”

“No one can take advantage of you without your permission.”

“Creating a great life is not a destination. You don’t arrive there; you experience it. It’s happening now. It’s a journey that begins when you choose to make your life great right now and learn to enjoy the ride.”

“You are an incredible and powerful individual. You are a gift to this world and you do not have the right to put yourself down – even in the privacy of your own mind.”

“What you say about you and what you think about you, become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Choose your words – and thoughts – wisely.”

“People abuse themselves with drugs, overeating, overspending, and other unhealthy habits, either to hide from their emotional pain or because they haven’t yet learned how to accept their greatness and love themselves. Eventually, the drug may take over and they become physically and psychologically addicted. Once clean, they need to learn to accept and love themselves. This is not always an easy prescription but it’s the only way to overcome the life of self-bondage.”

“Integrity doesn’t go on vacation.”

“When your emotions take over, your mind gets left behind.”

“When you learn to experience the moment, you realize that whatever is happening outside you is not as important as what is going on inside you.”

“You cannot reason with, problem-solve, or rationalize with emotion. You cannot think and feel at the same time. If you are emotional, you must either deal with the emotion in the moment, or put it aside until you can deal with it at a later time.”

“Regardless of what happened in your life, the story is just a story. There are no mistakes in life; things happen for a reason even if we don’t know what those reasons are. In order to truly move on, let go of your attachment to the story. You are not what happened to you.”

“The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself.”