Jeffrey Marsh > Quotes

“You forget your bravery. You stop trusting yourself. Other people’s words “You shouldn’t be like that,” in whatever context, become your own words “I am wrong for being like this. It’s my fault.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“Heroes doubt themselves at first, just like you, but they go ahead anyway.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“Why spend your precious life trying to do something impossible?”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“What’s the one thing about yourself that you were taught to hate? What’s the biggest thing that you were taught is imperfect about you?”
― Jeffrey Marsh, How to Be You: Stop Trying to Be Someone Else and Start Living Your Life

“Stop Trying to Belong and Start Creating the Spaces You Want to Belong To”
― Jeffrey Marsh, Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself

“I’ll tell you about a spiritual principle that changed my life and made it so much easier for me to grow, change habits, and have the life I want: You don’t have to have a good reason for anything in particular.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself

“And above all, give yourself the gift of not having to get it right. Even the choices of “right” and “wrong” are often used against us by our own outlook. Your brain will use right and wrong as two hard classifications to create impossible standards for you. Life is often very complicated, and this black-and-white thinking is harmful.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself

“So, the concept of the Buddhist middle way isn’t to pick the thing that’s “best’’ between your two bad decisions; it’s to choose any third choice. Just pick anything. This choice may be in the middle, between the two options your brain presents, or it may be in a surprising place somewhere else.”
― Jeffrey Marsh, Take Your Own Advice: Learn to Trust Your Inner Voice and Start Helping Yourself