Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly Quotes

“I don’t know how he did it, but with a few short sentences he had managed to wash away my tears and wash away all of the pain and agony that I had experienced over the last few hours. He also managed to make me doubt my own instincts. I”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“Never shrink to fit your greatness into others’ limited expectations for your life to make them feel more comfortable in theirs.”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“The bottom line is we must not allow our fears to prevent us from moving forward and making those hard, frightening decisions. If we sit passively by and do nothing, like an ostrich with our heads in the sand, life will simply make our choices for us. Not making a decision is a decision in itself. We must never let fear hold us back from becoming the best versions of ourselves. When it comes to the decision to confront our fears or run from them, we must follow the advice from the title of Joyce Meyer’s best-selling book, Do It Afraid. T”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“I lived in a horrible, dysfunctional marriage, where I was constantly disrespected and dismissed because I was afraid to make a decision to change it. I settled there out of fear, which eventually killed my spirit. The death of one’s spirit is the worst death that a person can possibly experience. It’s like living life as a zombie: alive on the outside, but decaying from the inside out.”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“Yet making mistakes in life is unavoidable, and the only way to not ever make another mistake is to cease to live. Every”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“Yesterday has passed and tomorrow has not yet come. The decisions that we make today create our reality of tomorrow. The”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“Fear held me prisoner. I was too afraid to live the life that I wanted, so I became trapped in a life that I hated.”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“The transformation of one’s mind is not something that takes place overnight. It is a process. It took time. In fact, it took a lot more than time. It took a few other key elements to release me from the negative thoughts and images that I had allowed to hold me captive and to shape my life for so long. Decades of captivity don’t just end in one night, even if you’ve been physically freed. There are other dimensions of freedom that still must take place. The”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“I was forever playing the part of the fun-loving extrovert, but I was secretly afraid that someone would see through me and discover the fat, ugly, socially awkward person that I believed myself to be. When”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“I had also sacrificed my relationship with God, and that was the biggest sacrifice of all and the one for which I felt the deepest regret. When”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“allowed him to pull the wool over my eyes and convince me that what I knew to be true in my mind was wrong. I made it easy for him because I had given up way too much. I had too much invested in this relationship to let it go down in flames so quickly. So I let him lie to me. I convinced myself that it was true. I needed it to be true, so that I could still look him in the face and love him, so that I could still look myself in the mirror and not hate myself even more than I already did. I swallowed my common sense and gut instinct, looked the other way, and accepted his words to be true. The”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“The more time went by, the more furious I became. I couldn’t decide who I was angrier with, Richard or myself. For all of my shortcomings—growing up believing that I was fat and unattractive—I never saw myself as dumb. With the exception of some challenges in school, like with math, I had always thought of myself as a pretty bright individual. That is, until then. I started to feel like such an idiot. How could I have been so blind?”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“Making intelligent decisions that render good results are not born out of emotion, but out of peaceful, balanced, cerebral thought.”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“So for any fellas reading this, here’s a secret tip for you. If you can learn to look past the exterior and connect with a woman so that she feels like you see her and understand her for who she is on the inside, you will have a diehard woman by your side for life. And here’s another secret: if you’re having problems in the bedroom, a woman’s real G-spot is located in her soul. If you touch her there, problems in the bedroom will never be an issue again. F”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“It’s easy to always feel peaceful when there is nothing coming against you, challenging that peace. The only way for us to know that we’ve truly found peace is when we are able to sustain it in the midst of a storm.”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace

“When someone doesn’t understand their own value and self- worth, and they don’t have a clear perception of who they really are, they’re easily persuaded, enticed, or tempted to settle for the first thing that comes their way. M”
― Cherie Esteves, Journey Out of Fat, Dumb, and Ugly: Making the Journey to Self-Acceptance and Inner Peace