How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay Quotes

“The only people who have absolute trust in themselves are toddlers, psychopaths, and people who haven’t been challenged by the real world yet.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“You too may struggle each day just to keep going when the world feels hard, but I want to recognize how powerful and important that is.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Self-doubt makes us try harder because we convince ourselves that our work or worth is not enough. Imposter Syndrome whispers that your work and worth are never enough. Worse, it says that your work is your worth.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay

“The only people who have absolute trust in themselves are toddlers”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“So perhaps the thing that’s keeping you from what you’re supposed to be doing is calling to you for a good reason. Don’t be afraid to take that unknown path if it beckons. Sometimes you must trust where you are called.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“These steps are the work of life. And that work can be beautiful.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Every single person has a story, a battle, a lesson to teach, a bit of magic that makes them like no one else in the world. Ironically, it’s that same uniqueness that sometimes silences our voice, because the same gift that makes your voice special is often the very thing that may have labeled you as “weird” when you dared to let your strange and wonderful thoughts go free into the world—a world which E. E. Cummings rightly said “is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“there’s nothing wrong with being an amateur. The word itself comes from the Latin “amare,” which means “to love”…to do something just for the love of it.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“kummerspeck,” which literally translates to “grief bacon”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“But this perception that everyone else is zooming past me isn’t accurate. It’s just that I am living the slower live-stream documentary of my life while watching the sizzle reel of everyone else’s accomplishments.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Letting down your walls to share your human stories”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Let us rise up and be thankful”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“My therapist told me that maybe the reason I self-sabotage is because it lets me predict the outcome and that creates the illusion of self-control.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“The shame and peer pressure and the horrors of childhood blunt down our strange edges and keep us from singing the songs of our heart.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” —Ray Bradbury”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“I am living the slower live-stream documentary of my life while watching the sizzle reel of everyone else’s accomplishments.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay