Cleo Wade > Quotes

“Love yourself enough to walk into only the rooms and situations that show care and love for you. Love yourself enough to walk out of the rooms that harm you in any way. Love yourself enough to hold the people who harm you accountable for their words and actions. Love yourself enough to express your wants, your needs, and your desires. Love yourself enough to tell the truth. Love yourself enough to keep yourself safe. Love yourself enough to say enough is enough when enough has become enough.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Don’t wait on anyone to tell you what you are worth. You have to be the first person who knows what you are worth and can say what you are worth.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Comparison and extreme competition run on insecurities and the belief in scarcity, which inevitably isolates us from one another.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Being weird is when you love yourself enough to liberate yourself from the burden of trying to be normal. It is also when you are smart enough to know that there is no such thing as normal.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“May our broken hearts fuel us to fix our world.”
― Cleo Wade

“Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for who you were last week, last month, or last year. Forgive yourself for when you were exhausted and snapped at the people you love. Forgive yourself for not being able to do it all. Forgive yourself for your fears. Forgive yourself for your mistakes. Forgive yourself for eating one cookie too many. Forgive yourself for not being perfect. We often look at forgiveness as an intellectual act, but forgiveness is very spiritual. It is one of the most spiritual things we can do. When we forgive, we acknowledge that we are far bigger and greater than one individual moment. When we forgive, we are saying to the universe: I will not imprison myself or anyone else with anger, shame, judgment, or resentment. Gift yourself this freedom.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Do not ignore your intuition. There is an infinite intelligence within you; let it be your guiding light.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Mantra for anxiety:
This is not you. This is something moving through you. It can leave out of the same door it came in.”
― Cleo Wade

“it was time

so i said yes
i said yes to living
i said yes to loving
i said yes to being
my...
self
illuminated
and unafraid”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life and Inward 2 Books Collection Set

“don’t need to know you to love you.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“The only way we can make the most of our lives is to make the most of our moments. Today, wherever you are, decide to stay. We can know the gifts that lie in the present only if we stay in it long enough to receive them.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“I speak out because I know the pain of staying silent.”
― Cleo Wade, Where to Begin: A Small Book About Your Power to Create Big Change

“Take risks with faith, not fear.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Keep your inner world loving and hopeful and your outside world will begin to reflect exactly that.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Don’t tear yourself down when you have the power to build yourself up.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“rumi said: “your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself you have built up against it”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“List of everyday acts of bravery:
1. Being a woman
2. Giving a damn”
― Cleo Wade

“You are in charge of how much space a thought takes up in your life. Take the time to carefully consider what you let be a part of your being and your spirit.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“One of the chief ways you show yourself love is by surrounding yourself with loving people.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Equally, when we attach guilt or shame to receiving, we are blocking our ability to receive in a way that truly nourishes us. Our ability to give is only as powerful as our ability to receive, mostly because the more we can know how to receive, the more we have to give.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“When we know our value and can express our value, we're able to teach others how to honour what we bring to the table.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Our dreams are our destiny’s way of communicating with us.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“We are here to connect, not compare. There is a reason we are not in this world alone. It is because we are all connected and need each other to function peacefully, purposefully, and powerfully. We cannot know happiness or our true power if we are constantly in a state of comparison and competition. Comparison and extreme competition run”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“kept looking for goodness
kept asking everyone
where I could find the
good in the world
it was not
until I
looked
within
and
grew
my own
goodness
that I
began
to see it
everywhere”
― Cleo Wade

“And may your first love last forever.
P.S. You are your first love. Take care of yourself.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“Know the value of knowing your value.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“the time is always right to reclaim your narrative”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“a love note to my body a love note to my body: first of all, I want to say thank you. for the heart you kept beating even when it was broken for every answer you gave me in my gut for loving me back even when I didn’t know how to love you for every time you recovered when I pushed you past our limits for today, for waking up. When you express deep vulnerability or pain, you are still deserving of love.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life

“my rest does not need a reason my goodness does not need to be proven my value is mine to claim”
― Cleo Wade, Remember Love: Words for Tender Times

“Very few breakthroughs come without a few breakdowns along the way. Stay the course. Our personal evolution brings so much brilliance to our life, but it can also bring some pain and discomfort with it. While our spiritual and emotional shifts do bring us closer to our best selves, they also simultaneously move us away from the space in which we may have been comfortably living before. These transitional periods, while necessary to our growth, often leave us feeling incredibly vulnerable. Be gentle with yourself. Moving from where you were to where you are takes some getting used to.”
― Cleo Wade, Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life