Lifestyle Change Quotes

“Seek a slower, simpler life.”
― Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling: Fennel's Journal No. 6

“No one can predict the quantity of a lifespan but we can affect our quality of life exponentially.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“Eat right and your body will tell you what it's supposed to look like.”
― Ariana Rodriguez

“Don't allow your own insecurities to keep you away from the career or lifestyle you believe you deserve.”
― Germany Kent

“If you want to live a new way, you have to start thinking that way. Your thoughts precede the lifestyle, not the other way around.”
― Bryant McGill

“Those who seek greater justice in our world need to work toward a deeper understanding of oppressions. Activists need to develop the kind of understanding that will lead to a lifestyle—a way of being—that works against all oppressions....

This requires us to be open to change as a response
to what other social justice activists say—especially those advocating against parallel interlocking oppressions. We cannot end just one form of oppression, so we need to be on board with other activists. If we are not, we doom social justice activists to perpetually pulling up the innumerable shoots that spring from the very deep roots of oppression. Furthermore, inability to see one’s own privilege and ignorance of the struggles that others face (in a homophobic, racist, ageist, ableist, sexist society) are major impediments to social justice activism. Those who are privileged must get out of the way so that others can take the lead, bringing new social justice concerns and methods to the activist’s table.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Sister Species: Women, Animals and Social Justice

“If you have any doubt about the lifestyle you have chosen, either eliminate your doubt or choose a new lifestyle, never stay in between!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“No one is any better than you. You are no better than anyone else. We are just different people doing different things at different points in our lives!”
― Jackie Vernon-Thompson, Transformative Etiquette: A guide to finding Love and Refining Self

“Why wait until New Year's to create a new you?”
― Jen Selinsky

“Learning the mechanism of healing and realizing the role of contrast and diversity within and around us will give us the push we need to partake in healing. The obstacles we may encounter and the inevitable mistakes naturally serve as precious components of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual maturity.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Embarking on our path as a courageous soul will remind us that ultimately it does not matter how well we live, or the best way to avoid errors in our lifestyle decisions. Beginning will positively change our daily routines and habits, but the surface level changes are only a meager reward compared to the spiritual lessons along the way.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“While healing, we learn the most effective method of conquering self-limitations, becoming bulletproof to hardships, choosing selectively wiser decisions, and polishing our inner skills directly. We all need this time of training as a step to becoming mindful crafters of meaningful creations.”
― Youheum Son, Heal Your Living: The Joy of Mindfulness, Sustainability, Minimalism, and Wellness

“Only a healthy mind and body can think positively, make informed decisions, and inspire others.”
― Linda Rawson

“Fun fact—fifteen minutes of walking per day has been shown to lower your risk of heart disease by 33 percent.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Resting your attention on a single breath is a victory: one inhale and one exhale.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“You don’t even have to lift your head from between your knees to take a breath, and you know you can manage that much, even with poison in your veins.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“Your body is a preposterously powerful, highly attuned machine just the way it is, and the alarm bells it hears (through aches and pains and nagging worries) are notices being dispatched from central command.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“This life is an Equal Swagger Opportunity. We all have an absolute right to swagger, like a Texas oil man with Western boots, a cowboy hat, and a leathery tan—the whole rich, old white dude package.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Tell your story please. I want to hear it. The state of the world is heavy, and the only way to sustain our collective well-being is to listen: to each other and to the messages coming from our own bodies.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Systems are critical. They offer you confidence, stability, and measurable progress, but they have limits, too. They keep you squarely in your head.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer

“Here, you know exactly what wellness means. It doesn’t mean perfection. It’s not about striving to be completely pain-free or blissed out.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Here, your body ceases being a production and becomes a conduit for living. It is the apparatus that makes everything in your life possible: work, love, pleasure, purpose, and passion.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Here, you know how it feels to value your fingers and toes, heart, lungs, and all the saggy parts, just as they are.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Here, you get to stop fitting into all the molds.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“Wear what makes you feel like yourself.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“When we trust our bodies to tell us about
hunger and fullness, exhaustion and energy, they communicate everything we could ever need to know about how to survive and how to thrive.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“Trees grow stronger in response to the wind, and their roots grow deeper. This moment in history may feel like it’s planted in the path of a category 5 hurricane. It has ripped us up, but it has also rooted us, weaving us together beneath the surface of the ground and leaving us stronger than ever. We can grieve the loss while, at the same time, falling madly in love with what it has mobilized in us: caring, grace, companionship, openness, and uncensored, outspoken truth-telling. Dying can teach us a great deal about living.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist

“I led the counselor, probation officer, my teachers, my parents, and everyone else to believe that I was a good kid who’d just slipped up and made a few blunders. I made them think I was putting my all into recovery when, in reality, the only thing I was putting my best effort towards was deceiving each of them. My intellect allowed me to maintain the style of life I wanted, right underneath their noses.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“You have that control. Take it.”
― Sara Ellie MacKenzie

“Where is the majority of your wealth? In yourself or in the things you own?”
― Daniel Gumiero