In Case Nobody Told You Quotes

“Acting through fear increases self-esteem.

Most fear exists before you act. It rises when you’re just standing around thinking too much about what could happen instead of taking action. This keeps you immobile and anxious. However, once you take the step, once you jump off the cliff, then you’re no longer afraid.

Fear converts into excitement, and this helps you gain more courage and confidence for next time. If you can get past your initial fear and take the leap, the fear will disappear and transform into more self-esteem.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“Let go of what has served its purpose.

You will know if you are completely done with something when you give it up and you feel freedom instead of loss. This is when you will know that it is done serving its purpose in your life. The value has run out, the lesson has finished, and it’s time to move on.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“You can’t fail at life.

Failure is simply an unplanned outcome. For the most part, it means you didn’t receive the result you wanted. We are all familiar with that occurrence and feeling. However, if you make it mean that you yourself are a failure, then you’ll discourage yourself from trying again. You’ll keep yourself stuck to avoid painful feelings until eventually being stuck becomes the worst feeling.

We all have different journeys. The only people who feel as though they have failed are the ones comparing their lives with others. Forget the image you have in your mind about how it should all look. Your life is unique to you. Don’t try to make it look like anyone else’s.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“You’ll learn more than you ever imagined if you see the world through beliefs rather than right and wrong.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“You can’t choose who another person is, but you can choose who you want to associate with. You can choose who you want to befriend, who you want to date, who you want to work for. You can’t control others, but you can control your choices and responses to them. It’s far easier to choose kind people than to choose an unkind person and try to change them into a kind person.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“Don’t invest in other people’s opinion of you.

You can change yourself a hundred different ways to get other people to approve of you and there will still be those who don’t. Your beauty will please some and threaten others. Your intelligence will impress one person and offend another. You will be too tall, too short, too smart, too attractive, too nice, not nice enough, too talented, too poor, and not educated enough for people who are determined to not like you. You must decide that it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks of you. Their opinions don’t make your bed, pay your bills, or fill your stomach, so stop investing your focus and energy into them.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“The formula for success includes failure.

The biggest lie about success is that its opposite is failure. This tricks you into thinking that you’re far away from your achievement or goal if things don’t work out exactly as you wanted them to. However, there is no success without risk, experimentation, and some failure.

Disappointments, delays, and disasters are not contrary to success; they are a part of the process. If you experience failure, it doesn’t mean you are on the other end of success. It means you’re right on track as long as you don’t give up. The opposite of success is resignation, not failure. You can’t succeed if you give up, but you can succeed after you fail.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“When you let go, you gain.

As you grow older you will let go a little at a time: a bad memory, a negative habit, a toxic friend. Bit by bit, you will shed what no longer serves you until you reveal who you are underneath it all. You will soon discover that even though you gave up many things, there is no feeling of loss. What you have gained in return is far more valuable.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“It will be mirrored until it is healed.

Anything left unresolved within you will come back to you through other people, situations, and circumstances until it finds completion. If you find yourself going through the same issues or problems time and time again, know that there is some aspect of it you haven’t yet healed or released. You will keep pulling it into your experience until you transcend it.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“Validate others.

Most people you meet will not care about how much money you make or what kind of car you drive. Most people will care about how you treat them. If you make them feel heard and validated, that feeling will override anything of supposed importance that money can buy. People value your value of them, and there is no price tag on a friend who truly sees you and loves you for who you are.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“If you can’t or don’t want to do the work, your relationship becomes vulnerable to termination. At that point, it’s only a matter of who will get tired of all the games, lies, miscommunications, misunderstandings, and inauthenticity first. The further you step away from the core of your relationship, the closer you get to its end.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“You don’t want to be stuck forcing something that won’t happen. You’ll waste your time, energy, and health on something that simply isn’t meant for you. It’s okay to move on. It’s imperative that you move on. If you don’t, you’ll prevent even better things from coming into your life. Not everything we want or strive for is meant to work out. Sometimes it’s meant to teach us a valuable skill or lesson so we can use it somewhere else. Some experiences are only for growth purposes.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“Give to yourself first.

To everything, there is a season. Some seasons, you will give fruit; other seasons, you will need to rest and recover. The bare tree is not a failure. It is simply in the replenishment part of its cycle. That’s a necessary part of its process because without it, the tree can’t grow more fruit.

You don’t have to give every time. It’s okay for you to take some time for yourself, as well. In fact, if you want to have enough to give to others, you will need to take care of yourself first. A tree that refuses water and sunlight for itself can’t bear fruit for others.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“You are the value.

In life, you will have moments when you wonder if you’re good enough for a job, another person, or something else that you really want. When you appraise the importance of your desire as being more valuable than yourself, then you are creating an imbalance in your self-perception. You place the significance on the thing that is outside of yourself as opposed to who you are within yourself. This takes away your power and gives it to an external force. The true question is whether the job, relationship, or thing is good enough for you. Does it align with the vision you have for yourself and your life? Is it worthy of your time and energy? Will it better you? Will it fulfill you? Does it deserve you?”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement

“Your power is in the present moment.

Your power is not in yesterday or in tomorrow. It’s not over there somewhere waiting for you to reach it. It’s not hidden behind some goal or achievement. Your power is right here, right now. Your power is within the choices you make today.

The average person makes 35,000 decisions a day. How many decisions did you make today that brought you closer to better health, to thriving relationships, a personal goal, or a happier life? Choose more of what benefits you and less of what keeps you in the same old unproductive and unhealthy cycles.”
― Emily Maroutian, In Case Nobody Told You: Passages of Wisdom and Encouragement