Jamie Varon > Quotes

“You deserve to love your life so much that it doesn’t matter who affirms or denies you.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

“Excuses are a great way to be on the sidelines of your own life.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“BEING RADICALLY CONTENT starts with emotionally opting out of the world. Unlearning the value system of a harsh and power-hungry society—and creating a new internal value system where you are affirmed, seen, worthy, loved.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

“I’ve realized that another person’s greatness takes nothing from my own. And that the bravest thing you can do is support people and celebrate their success with as much excitement as it deserves.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“Opting out looks like having your own value system. Ending the compulsion to compare. Loving yourself. Caring about what you think about yourself, not what other people think about you.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

“Once you start to opt out of a society that does not want you to be happy or valued as you are, it’s like waking up from a bad dream.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

“Maybe confidence doesn’t come from being the best or thinnest or prettiest or most perfect, but just from showing up for yourself over and over.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“the bravest thing you can do is support people and celebrate their success with as much excitement as it deserves. It’s funny, the more you celebrate others, the more you celebrate yourself.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“Your life is happening now. Don’t you dare waste it.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“If you interpret every difficult experience as a reason to not try, or have hope, or not believe in people and love, that’s what life will become. You’ll look for evidence for why something isn’t working out for you. I choose to stay open. I don’t want to spend my life afraid and guarded.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“Creating art is a meditation on self-belief. Do you feel worthy to be seen? To be heard? The task of writing is incredibly daunting if you do not.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“But I’ve realized that another person’s greatness takes nothing from my own. And that the bravest thing you can do is support people and celebrate their success with as much excitement as it deserves.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“We are allowed to exist. Exactly as we are. And grow and evolve. And recognize our talents and appreciate them without waiting to be appreciated by others. That’s not selfish. It’s vital. It’s how to stop just surviving—and start really thriving.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

“For me, the pursuit is in having the freest life. The most expressed. The least held back. I want to be healed. I want to be radically content and radically satisfied. I don’t want this world to tell me my worth. I want to derive my worth from inside my own soul. I’m not trying to live the best life that people can aspire to. I am not here to trade in jealousy for profit. I want to be free. And I want you to be free, too.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World

“for permission or to look a certain way. Just show up and try.”
― Jamie Varon, Main Character Energy: A Novel

“But, my life is not a focus group.”
― Jamie Varon, Radically Content: Being Satisfied in an Endlessly Dissatisfied World