The Only Constant Quotes

“I see how hard you’re trying. I see how hard this is on you. You are making progress. I’m proud of you. You are getting stronger every day, and you will get to the point where you can trust yourself in the decision you need to make.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Even when change is the logical solution that will get you the inner peace you desire, your body will resist it. That’s because your body quite literally feels safer in the presence of the source of pain than when it’s disconnected from the source of pain.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“To embrace change is to understand that it is not having followers that makes you a leader. It is leading your life with decisions, responsibility, initiative, and autonomy. You can be a leader on your own and have people walk with you as they lead their own paths.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“You can't grow into someone you're chasing. You grow into someone you're becoming.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“The ultimate remedy for fear is self-trust. But how do I trust myself? By seeing yourself as the leader of your life.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“What's driven by shame, is sustained by shame.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“When you fight with yourself for your worth, it's an ugly battle.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I want to thank every person who turned their back on me. You taught me that expecting others to treat me with the same loyalty I treat them with is unrealistic. I will always have my own back. I also want to thank every person who stayed. You showed me how beautiful unconditional love is as we change and evolve into our best selves. I want to thank every person who always shared the truth with me. You helped me grow, be creative, and feel safe taking risks.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I want to thank every person who lied to me. You taught me that no amount of effort I expend will change someone else. All I can change is myself. I can embrace my honesty.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“want to thank every person who walked out of my life after promising they wouldn’t. You taught me that people change and things don’t always stay the same. And that is a blessing. As long as I don’t walk away from myself, I’m okay.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Embracing change means accepting the choices that others make for themselves, especially when those choices involve you and their treatment of you.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Give the credit for your change to yourself, to the person who woke up one day and decided, “This reality doesn’t honor my authentic self. This reality doesn’t make me feel wholly welcome and worthy. This reality doesn’t see me for who I am and doesn’t hear my voice, let alone listen to it.” Give the credit for your change to the person you are becoming.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Give the credit for your change to yourself, to the person who woke up one day and decided, “This reality doesn’t honor my authentic self. This reality doesn’t make me feel wholly welcome and worthy. This reality doesn’t see me for who I am and doesn’t hear my voice, let alone listen to it.” Give the credit for your change to the person you”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I was expressing how upsetting it was to me that all the moments in my life where I made decisions for myself happened at the point where the pain of staying the same was so much worse than the pain of changing.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“The reason most of those relationships fell apart was that I was showing more and more of my true self. I was beginning to have standards and expectations. I was beginning to express my wants and needs. I was becoming less of a people-pleaser and more of a person who doesn’t survive by pleasing others. If that’s the only way those relationships existed, wanting to go back to those relationships entails an element of wanting to go back to the version(s) of me that upheld those relationships.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“One of my favorite movies is About Time.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“It’s like we are constantly chasing after the next moment, and when the next moment arrives, we want the one after it, and so on and so forth.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“It’s allowed me to be a calmer and more peaceful person who lives in reality as opposed to what I want reality to be.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I realize now that a lot of the rush and hustle I adopted in my day-to-day life was merely an escape from the present moment.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“You don’t wait for someone to come change your life or save you. You don’t wait for someone to pick up your mess along the way. You do that yourself. And when you don’t pick up the mess, you take responsibility instead of blaming others. You trust yourself as the leader of your life and act in accordance.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Because your worth, when seen and validated by you, doesn’t need to be seen and validated by others. It instead moves itself toward those who see and validate it and stops begging those who don’t to start doing so.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I will choose to move toward places that nourish my growth and don’t demand me to be less than myself. I will choose to move toward places that celebrate me, see me, and wholly welcome every version of me—the still-learning me, making-mistakes me, taking-risks me, and achieving-accomplishments me.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Will you have to reinstate your boundary with more assertion? Or will you have to limit your contact with this person? You must do what is best for you, what shows that you value your energy, worth, and time.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“In his book What Happened to You?, author Dr. Bruce Perry”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I’m sure you’ve heard that you can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“Stop making yourself small by not wanting to cause too much noise. If that “noise” is your voice, who you are, and what you want for yourself, then be noisy. Be loud. The discomfort of others with your change is not on you to deal with or change. It’s for them to deal with.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“They won’t try to shame or pressure you into doing what you’re not comfortable doing or what doesn’t resemble you. They won’t think of how your actions reflect on them. They meet you where you are, exactly the way you need to be met.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“The best way to identify someone who is right for you is to consider, Do they have my best interests in mind? You’ll find that those who do will always honor you where you are.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“The best way to identify someone who is right for you is to consider, Do they have my best interests in mind? You’ll find that those who do will always honor you where you”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life

“I realized that there are people in my life who aren’t good for me. I realized that I no longer have to hold on to people just because of how long they’ve been in my life or because of the potential of what they could be one day or because of who they were.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Only Constant: A Guide to Embracing Change and Leading an Authentic Life