The Crossroads of Should and Must Quotes

“If you’re not prioritizing the things you say you care about, consider the possibility that you don’t actually care about those things.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“And if, for some awful reason, you forget that money is a game, a make-believe concept that some people invented, you could be led back into the complex layered world of Should. And here, the loss isn’t a financial one. You are the cost. Is it worth it?”
― ELLE LUNA, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“It is here, standing at the crossroads of Should and Must, that we feel the enormous reality of our fears, and this is the moment when many of us decide against following our intuition, turning away from that place where nothing is guaranteed, nothing is known, and everything is possible.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“All too often, we feel that we are not living the fullness of our lives because we are not expressing the fullness of our gifts.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“We each have unique potential that was given to us at birth, but whether or not we cultivate it is entirely up to us. In its purest sense, Must is why we are here to begin with, and choosing it is the journey of our lives.”
― ELLE LUNA, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“When you’re stuck, when you need a jolt, when you crave to see things from a new perspective, it’s time to play.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path,” Joseph Campbell”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“It is a natural process to become your own person, to find your voice, convictions, and opinions, and to challenge and shed the Shoulds that no longer serve your evolving beliefs.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“And the room replied—“It’s time to paint.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“you’re not holding a book of answers, because only you know those; you’re holding a collection of the most effective questions”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“Just because something is valuable doesn’t mean that we need it.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“We unconsciously imprison ourselves to avoid our most primal fears. We choose Should because choosing Must is terrifying, incomprehensible.”
― ELLE LUNA, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“How will you inspire others? Will you even know? Will it be because they see your work? Read your papers? Delight in your products? Or will it be because of that way you listen to them when they speak? How warmly you hug? How you live as you move through your days? Will it be something you say? Or some way that you say it? Or will it be the resounding peace that words cannot express? Although you might not be able to see the impact your life is having, it is there, under the surface, on another plane that we can feel but perhaps not see.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“I felt that I had entered one of the most creative periods of my life. But it was neither balanced nor sustainable, and I sensed that I was quickly approaching a crossroads in my life.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“When we discover our Must, the brain’s most primal, protective center gets alarmed. The riot gear is called forth. Defense mechanisms go up. Because choosing Must raises very real and scary questions.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“Com que frequência colocamos a culpa nos outros, no trabalho ou nas situações quando o problema real, a dor verdadeira, está dentro de nós?”
― Elle Luna, Eu sou as escolhas que faço: Como resolver o dilema entre o que o mundo espera de você e o que você quer do mundo

“como é você quem cria a sua prisão, você pode se libertar.”
― Elle Luna, Eu sou as escolhas que faço: Como resolver o dilema entre o que o mundo espera de você e o que você quer do mundo

“Nossa prisão é construída por uma vida inteira de expectativas, regras, convenções, conveniências – aquelas escolhas que o mundo espera que façamos e com as quais concordamos sem que nos demos conta. São os muros que nos afastam de quem somos de verdade. A segurança vigia a porta para não deixar a paixão entrar. Mas,”
― Elle Luna, Eu sou as escolhas que faço: Como resolver o dilema entre o que o mundo espera de você e o que você quer do mundo

“Must feels inherently selfish at first. But when you choose Must, you inspire others to choose it, too.”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

“Our prison is constructed from a lifetime of Shoulds, the world of choices we’ve unwittingly agreed to,”
― Elle Luna, The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion