Jacqueline Whitney Quotes

There is someone who will cherish you for the person you are. If you haven’t found them yet, let go and let the universe do its work.

You were handed the life you are living because you are strong enough to live it.

Buddhist monk Maha Ghosananda was quoted by author Jacqueline Novogratz in The Blue Sweater: “If you move through the world only with your intellect, then you walk on only one leg. If you move through the world only with your compassion, then you walk on only one leg. But if you move through the world with both intellect and compassion, then you have wisdom.

Vulnerability might be the most gentle, intense strength you can obtain. Don’t let it contain you. If speaking your truth feels terrifying, dance through fear. Someone needs to hear what you have to say. You deserve to say what you want to say.

Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for the moments you feel you messed up. Forgive yourself for feeling you need to be a perfect person. Forgive yourself for having anxiety. You are trying your best. You are. Do what is best for you, even if it means making someone upset. You aren’t intentionally doing it. Maybe they can’t understand what you’re experiencing and maybe you can’t put into words what you’re experiencing.

The more we try to make sense of the memories or the current moment that doesn’t make sense, the more we lose ourselves and our healing. There are some experiences that just aren’t ever going to make sense, and maybe they’re not meant to.

Please don’t think you are what they did to you. You are not. You aren’t less valuable because they left you. There’s not something wrong with you because they took advantage of you. You aren’t the words they spoke to you. You aren’t the words spoken about you.

Anxiety isn’t worth something you don’t have to do. Slow down. Put the sanity of your soul before anything else. Forgive yourself for disappointing someone. Say you are sorry and take another breath forward. Always take another breath forward. You are not taking breaths backward.

The pain teaches you what it needs to so you can be who you need to and your moment of yes this is why won’t come when you expect it to.

all that is meant to be will find you

everything that happens can become a reason for growth

You are not broken even when you feel you’re breaking. You’re coming together into all of whom you’ve been made to be.

even through immeasurable pain she does not quit with unending persistence she has shown herself her undeniable strength she has learned persistence is the strength of going on even though in any instance something could go wrong fear does not stop her she keeps going she finds strength in her heart it is always there no matter what she must bear

Maybe you feel deep within you that you aren't where you are supposed to be right now, but maybe you actually are. Maybe you are being held in this place so that you can grow and heal before you go somewhere else. Maybe you are being protected. Maybe you are being given a rare opportunity to focus on yourself and no one else for a while. It might feel uncomfortable and lonely, but maybe these feelings aren't negative. Maybe it is in these moments you discover yourself in a way that helps you change for the better. Maybe you will carry the lesson you learn now with you forever. You see, it is in the seasons that are the most uncomfortable that we become most comfortable with ourselves. I hope you lean into these moments with surrender. Surrender to the journey your soul is on. You are always being guided to where where you belong. Even if you don't feel like you belong where you are right now, you won't stay in this place forever. Before you know it, the dreams you are dreaming of now will be your reality when they are supposed to be. Trust.

Not only will it get better, but it will be better than you ever dreamed it could be.