You Are a Badass®: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

by Jen Sincero

STAY OPEN OR ELSE YOU ARE SCREWED.

If you want to live a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu; ancient Chinese philosopher,

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. —Kurt Cobain;

Whatever happens, stay the course, because there’s nothing cooler than watching your entire reality shift into one that is the perfect expression of you.

Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.

You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.

4. Passion trumps fear.

The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

The only failure is quitting. Everything else is just gathering information.