Happy Not Perfect Quotes

“Nothing happens if we don’t make it happen. We can’t get the job we don’t apply for. We can’t date the guy we don’t text back. We can’t have good mental health if we don’t take action to break out of limiting thought patterns and anxious drama loops.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Loving, hopeful, optimistic thoughts are the finest anti-inflammatory and antioxidant pills in the universe. Hateful, fearful thoughts are like swallowing poison.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Stiff thoughts grow in a fear-based life. Flexible thoughts grow in a love-based life.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“We will react to old wounds and fears in the same way again and again unless we make a conscious choice to break them.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“When we’re not fighting a feeling, we ironically allow it to pass quicker and, in the process, create the silence and space to hear its message.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Forgiveness doesn't mean excusing bad behaviour. It's a choice to let go of the past, just as it's a choice to aspire to our better natures.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Instagram is a hardcore drug for anyone who craves gratification. On social media, validation is quantifiable. Those double taps turn into sugar.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“At the heart of every human being is a desire to be loved and to love. Love is what protects us from the moment we enter this world.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Suffering happens in the gap we hold between the expectations we have and reality. Flexing and finding the gifts in the gap resolves the pain.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Flexibility is understanding that, no matter what we're going through, we always have multiple choices going forward.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Happiness didn't reside in the perfect moments I so desperately craved, or in external approval, but rather in the beauty within the mess.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“When we love all of ourselves, our strengths grow, and our weaknesses shrink.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Nothing can change unless our body and mind are playing on the same team.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Our brains are the most convincing storytellers and when they’re stuck repeating tales of our fears, they can be difficult to break away from.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“The goal isn’t to be perfect, but to be happy from the inside out.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Suffering is the key to growth and adapting if we allow it to be.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“The problem with unmanaged perfectionism, I was learning, is that it leaves you with no tolerance for error.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“The Flex is about turning stiff thoughts into flexible ones. It's essentially a system upgrade that fixes the bugs of self-blame, anxiety, perfectionism, the disease to please, and avoidance.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Going through life knowing how to bed is not about seeing things as black or white but exploring the grey areas.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Although our past is the architect of our present, the future is still under construction.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“We are so much better at compassionately understanding other people's battles, but forget to be kind about our own.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“It’s an odd paradox: life’s challenges have the capability to actually make us happier in the end.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“Living an emotionally authentic life is what makes each and every one of us interesting and it is only then that healing can take place.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“When fear speaks, it speaks lies that are disguised as truth and it can be very convincing.

‘EVERYTHING WE HEAR IS AN
OPINION, NOT A FACT. EVERYTHING WE SEE
IS A PERSPECTIVE,
NOT THE TRUTH.’ – MARCUS AURELIUS”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety

“What will change our perception of the world – and the world itself, if we can all get on board – is choosing compassion.”
― Poppy Jamie, Happy Not Perfect: Upgrade Your Mind, Challenge Your Thoughts, and Free Yourself from Anxiety