Elaina Marie > Quotes

“We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We feel safer when we can label someone and figure them out, but it’s hardly foolproof. ‘Good people’ are capable of bad behavior. ‘Bad people’ are capable of good behavior.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Happiness feels like a privilege to struggling kids, but inspiration feels like home.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Before kids learn to hide who they are, they are just gushing to show us.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“No one says, ‘happiness saved my life,’ but inspiration saves lives every day.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We were free of self-judgment when we were babies, and yet at some point, we developed a sensitivity that taught us to react with self-consciousness and negative self-talk.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Our actions reveal our truths.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We don’t come out of the womb thinking negatively about ourselves or others. We aren’t born talking ourselves out of our true needs and wants.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Marriages don’t end simply because a lack of trust exists. Marriages more specifically end because foundational agreements were broken, disrespectful behavior occurred, healthy and honest communication is lacking, or not “being seen or accepted” has ensued for too long.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“True happiness starts in the core of our true selves as a constant, a guidepost, a default, and a strength that shines from the inside out.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Honoring yourself is not selfish, it’s vital.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We can create a labyrinth of faulty analysis and decision making as we try to connect the outside world to our inside selves.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“To build confident and kind kids, we must celebrate their uniqueness.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“If you wouldn’t say those things to someone else you love, why are you saying them to yourself?”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Just as we know when we strike a metaphorical nerve with someone, we also know when we tap into what inspires them.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Don’t just act with kindness, think with kindness.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“It’s okay if we don’t know how we feel in the moment. It doesn’t mean we need to rush or force a decision. It doesn’t mean someone else should solve it for us.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We don’t have to change our lives overnight or put pressure on ourselves to be happy right now or tomorrow. We can just let inspiration easily give us moments of relief until they are bountiful.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The ocean, like life, always has movement. A sailboat with all its parts together, in its wholeness, can lead it's own way, cutting through challenging waves with strength, ease, purpose and determination, no matter the pull and push of the waves.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“We are a reminder to ourselves and others that we, as individuals and as a community, are stronger than we could have ever known until the moment we endured more than we previously thought possible.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Trust that you are inspiring and capable of providing hope to one or millions of lives just by being yourself along your life journey.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspiration may not solve one’s deepest or darkest problems, but it can be a light when no other light shines.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Your true self is never so lost that you can’t find it again.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspiration is the most radiant and flourishing expression of our authenticity.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Believe you can define your life and yourself as so much more than any ceiling you were born under.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspired moments are everywhere, regardless if we see them, seek them or are in a space to take them in or not.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“The inspired life is living life in deepest connection with our true selves, acting on what we truly need, want and desire, and basing happiness on what is in our control.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Generally, the longer it takes for us to make a decision, the greater the disconnect between our current experience of life and our true selves.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead

“Not only is the experience of learning inspiring, the results are fulfilling.”
― Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead