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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There’s a ridiculous idea out there that everyone else has their shit together. They don’t. The only people who have absolute trust in themselves are toddlers, psychopaths, and people who haven’t been challenged by the real world yet. These are the same people who think their shit doesn’t stink (and in the case of toddlers, will happily sit in it for hours) and, while fascinating for short periods of time, none of them are fun to be around at a cocktail party. In short, you don’t want to be them.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“In a world full of wannabe lions, don’t be afraid to love your inner hippo.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Make your list. Keep writing it. Go on safari, hunting for those things that bring you comfort. And every day pick one thing on your list to do. A kick-starter to joy…a habit of self-care…a reminder that time enjoyed is never time wasted.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“Finding and growing intentional joy in the face of the harshness of the world is not self-indulgent. It is a radical act of revolution and love. It is an active rebellion to refill your heart so you can fight for more…for yourself and others. So let’s fucking riot.”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“As you grow older”
― Jenny Lawson, How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay

“airplane mode.” As in”
― 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