Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead Quotes

“We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We feel safer when we can label someone and figure them out, but it’s hardly foolproof. ‘Good people’ are capable of bad behavior. ‘Bad people’ are capable of good behavior.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Before kids learn to hide who they are, they are just gushing to show us.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Happiness feels like a privilege to struggling kids, but inspiration feels like home.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“True happiness starts in the core of our true selves as a constant, a guidepost, a default, and a strength that shines from the inside out.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We were free of self-judgment when we were babies, and yet at some point, we developed a sensitivity that taught us to react with self-consciousness and negative self-talk.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Honoring yourself is not selfish, it’s vital.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We can create a labyrinth of faulty analysis and decision making as we try to connect the outside world to our inside selves.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Marriages don’t end simply because a lack of trust exists. Marriages more specifically end because foundational agreements were broken, disrespectful behavior occurred, healthy and honest communication is lacking, or not “being seen or accepted” has ensued for too long.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Our actions reveal our truths.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“No one says, ‘happiness saved my life,’ but inspiration saves lives every day.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspiration is a powerful change agent waiting for you to harness it.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Don’t just act with kindness, think with kindness.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Connecting through inspiration helps those of us who feel alone feel less alone.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspiration may not solve one’s deepest or darkest problems, but it can be a light when no other light shines.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Trust that you are inspiring and capable of providing hope to one or millions of lives just by being yourself along your life journey.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“You may never know which specific moments of your life fuel someone’s pilot light with inspiration when they need it most.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We are a reminder to ourselves and others that we, as individuals and as a community, are stronger than we could have ever known until the moment we endured more than we previously thought possible.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“When we know we are delaying the consequences of truth, whether buried in our subconscious or ignored by our conscious thoughts, our denial continues to steal our potential for true happiness.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The purity of happiness we experience will always be relative to how freely we can embrace truth.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Believe you can define your life and yourself as so much more than any ceiling you were born under.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We too easily put boundaries on defining who we are.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“If you wouldn’t say those things to someone else you love, why are you saying them to yourself?”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Your true self is never so lost that you can’t find it again.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The only ‘right path’ for you is the one that stems deeply from the core of your true self. The only ‘wrong’ path for you is one that is not in alignment or acting in honor of your true self.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The only trust we need is that of our own judgment and choices about what is best for us.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“It’s okay if we don’t know how we feel in the moment. It doesn’t mean we need to rush or force a decision. It doesn’t mean someone else should solve it for us.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead