Kelly Flanagan > Quotes

“The art of pleasing is the art of deception.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“The problem is, somewhere along the way, we stopped listening to this voice of grace. Or rather, we began listening, instead, to the voice of shame.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. BRENÉ BROWN”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Naked. The world wants you to take your clothes off. Please keep them on. But take your gloves off. Pull no punches. Say what is in your heart. Be vulnerable. Embrace risk. Love a world that barely knows what it means to love itself. Do so nakedly. Openly. With abandon.”
― Kelly Flanagan

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone. ROBIN WILLIAMS”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Little Ones, live the kind of story you’d want to read.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Our passions don’t have to inspire anyone else; they just need to breathe new life into us.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Belonging usually begins by letting go of the relationships that are most toxic to us—the ones in which we are seen as something less than we are—because when someone can’t see the goodness in us, it doesn’t mean they’re bad, but it does mean they’re bad for us.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Dating is what happens when you look around the playground of your life and ask someone to stand with you for a little while. Marriage is what happens when you ask them to stand with you for a long while.”
― Kelly Flanagan, True Companions: A Book for Everyone About the Relationships That See Us Through

“What is your uniqueness makes you a super moon worthy of awe and wonder, and your loneliness is simply the shadow side of your uniqueness? What if your loneliness is the inevitable counterpart to everything that is great and precious and most beautiful about you?”
― Kelly Flanagan, True Companions: A Book for Everyone About the Relationships That See Us Through

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“Nackt. Die Welt will, dass du deine Kleidung ausziehst. Bitte behalte sie an. Aber zieh deine Handschuhe aus. Sei immer ehrlich. Sag, was dir auf dem Herzen liegt. Sei verwundbar. Gehe Risiken ein. Liebe eine Welt, die es kaum versteht, sich selbst zu lieben. Tu es nackt. Offen. Mit Leib und Seele.”
― Kelly Flanagan

“Our passions are not necessarily epic. They are not always big, world-changing things. They’re just things that won’t go away, things that won’t leave us alone. It’s as if the little one inside of us is tugging on the shirtsleeve of our hearts and won’t quit tugging until we pay attention.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life

“May your strength be not in your fingernails but in your heart!”
― Kelly Flanagan

“The voice of comparison in me believes worthiness is relative. It tells me importance is a finite resource—if I’m important then someone else must be less important, and vice versa. It is, really, just the cleverly disguised voice of shame.”
― Kelly Flanagan, Loveable: Embracing What Is Truest About You, So You Can Truly Embrace Your Life